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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
so cute!!!