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Decoupaged Boxes
With their lids painted and papered with decorative prints, these elegant wooden boxes recall the traditional craft of decoupage. -
Child's Memory Box
You can't keep your little one from growing up too fast, but by filling an acid-free photo-storage box with birthday mementos, you can at least capture a moment in time. -
Origami Nesting Boxes Photo: Gentl and Hyers
Origami Nesting Boxes
These finished origami boxes are so pretty, but they take some patience to create. -
Faux-Leather Box
Collectors have long admired the look of antique boxes covered with the skin of snakes, alligators, ostriches, or stingrays, but an inexpensive alternative can be found by covering a box with faux-animal-skin paper. -
Treasured Chests Photo: Johnny Miller
Treasured Chests
These lovely little boxes, embellished with ribbons, blossoms, and velvet, rival their contents in elegance and allure. -
Magazine Holders with Handles
Magazine holders are good for keeping old issues in order, but their handleless backs make it difficult to access them when you need to. For a permanent fix, all it takes is a sash lift and a few holes for small bolts. -
Memorabilia Tins
Keep your favorite vacation ephemera, such as maps, menus, and fliers, on display by using them to decorate tins. -
Bamboo Organizer
Small bamboo steamers make perfect containers for storing erasers, stamps, pushpins, and more. -
Paint-Can Cubbies
Don't let your desktop disappear under piles of paperwork. Inexpensive, unused cans can be purchased at paint stores; lined up on a shelf an anchored in place with Velcro, they become organizing cubbyholes with a modern flair. -
Kids' Containers
Even ordinary items, such as rubber bands and spools, look great when they're turned into patterned labels for desktop containers. -
Cereal Box Organizer
Kids go through cereal fast. Make use of all the empty boxes by turning them into handy desk holders. -
Ribbon Organizer
Ribbons will stay untangled and ready to use in this easily made organizer box. -
Charging Station
A homemade charging station keeps bulky phone, PDA, and MP3 player cords tucked away. -
Coordinated Containers
Turn empty gift baskets into stylish household organizers by unifying mismatched containers with a single color of latex paint. -
Decorative Letterbox
Keep all of your letters organized and accessible with this attractive and easy-to-make box. -
Rolling Basket Table
This mobile end table organizes clutter with the flip of a lid, and can be whisked off to wherever it's needed. -
Book Cloth Storage Boxes Photo: LAURA MOSS
Book Cloth Storage Boxes
Add a splash of color to basic storage boxes with bright-toned book cloth. -
Stripped Tin Boxes
Stacked on a desktop, this tower of tin boxes look like a stylishly matched set, but the boxes actually started out as mismatched painted tins. -
No-Sew Oilcloth Basket Liner
Dress up storage baskets -- and make them easier to clean -- with lining cut from oilcloth, a durable and moisture-resistant fabric that requires no hemming. -
Closet on Wheels
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. -
Baby's Toy Chest
Customize a child-safe chest by adding a few molding strips inside and building a simple frame under the lid. The molding supports a false bottom in a baby's chest; later slip in vertical dividers, curtain rods, and storage bins, and you've got a place for everything. -
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so cute!!!