Mask run-of-the-mill storage with a little trompe l'oeil magic. We transformed a boxy, unfinished dresser into a dressier rococo masterpiece by painting it and decoupaging the front with blown-up clip art.

Making a smarter media unit is about as easy as playing "Tetris": Combine inexpensive, unfinished cubes to create a larger structure, then treat it to a dose of style.

Recycling may save the planet -- but it ruins the corner of your kitchen until collection day. An easy-to-make sorting station will help you get in order.

Jewelry boxes can be handy, but they can also turn your prettiest baubles into unsightly nests of knots. Here are four display-worthy organizing ideas we're sure you'll take a shine to.

Don't let your desktop disappear under piles of paperwork. Inexpensive, unused cans can be purchased at paint stores; lined up on a shelf and anchored in place with Velcro, they become organizing cubbyholes with a modern flair.

The space under your bed can be put to sensible use with these bins, made by attaching casters to a wooden box, a drawer from a chest, or a wine crate.

This mobile end table organizes clutter with the flip of a lid, and can be whisked off to wherever it's needed.

With a staple gun and some floor carpet squares, you can create a colorful bulletin board.

These ceramic vessels are great for couscous, but they're also an artful way to keep sundries contained and out of sight. Here they hide keys and mail in the entryway.

"Cordless electronic" is kind of a lie, because behind every portable, sleek, and compact phone, PDA, or MP3 player is a bulky adaptor with a stubborn tentacle of cord. Untangle and tidy up the Gordian knot with a homemade charging station.

Sew loops of colorful twill tape (in a variety of shades) onto the corners of a look-alike batch of bathroom or beach towels.

What may appear at first glance to be an unconventional armoire is actually a set of bookcases attached along one side. Opened, it's a compact, self-contained, innovative crafts or office nook.

Add a splash of personality to a lackluster work space by covering plain floating bookshelves with wallpaper. Measure the shelf, and cut the wallpaper slightly longer than shelf and wide enough to wrap around it with an overlap. Use wallpaper paste to affix the wallpaper to the shelf, pasting one side at a time. Cut slits into excess paper at ends, forming flaps; fold down, and affix with paste. Let dry completely, and hang shelves as usual.

Give a cabinet or shelves a sense of surprise by lining them with old documents, illustrations, sheet music, or postcards, photocopied to size.

Add splashes of color and texture -- as well as more storage space for papers -- to your home office with these fabric-and-ribbon-wrapped accordion folders.