Craft storage! (More organization!)

I've always had all my crafty stuff shoved in various boxes, once even all in the same closet. When we moved into this house (Boyfriends grandparents) there was an existing "wrapping station" in the basement which was a small dresser filled with ribbon and bows and tissue paper and an empty table beside it. Always I've wished for organization, and a way to get to DO crafty stuff when the mood strikes without having to sift through 20 boxes of stuff to see what I even have. I decided to re-purpose our home office closet into a craft/gift wrapping centre.


Before:







As you can see, it was half filled with empty computer boxes, random assorted leftover electronics and boxes of paperwork. So i hefted them all down to the basement, repurposed a plastic see through drawer system from the office (Switched it out with that small dresser that had the wrapping stuff in it!). Added a small table, a second shelf, some string to hold up the wrapping paper rolls and some hooks for scissors. All I need to do now is find the rest of my craft supplies, and make labels for everything. Check out the new look:


Top shelf left to right: Baskets/fake flowers, new in package christmas ornaments, basket of glue/tape/string/thumbtacks, assorted bits of ribbon, gift bags/boxes, and the 2 bins on the end one is fall craft sets and the other is filled with clear plastic christmas ornaments of various sizes.

On the closet rod: Ribbon sort of sorted.

Second shelf: New Christmas lights, chinese take out boxes, extra paper ribbon, jars with various things such as paintbrushes, buttons, clothespins, sea shells etc. Wooden frames, magnetic sheets (into the next picture below this one) one basket of gift tags, one of gift cards, plain white gift boxes in various sizes.




Under the counter storage for the paper cutter, paint (all I could find at the moment) gift wrap along the wall. In the plastic drawers there is flat wrap, tissue paper, bows and ribbon.

And of course the various scissors along the wall.



My boyfriend came home from work and said "Do you know what a day off is!?" and I said "YES! A day to do projects like this that take all day!" He just shook his head (But he likes it!)

So what do you think?