Seeing these dresser drawer planters has stirred a curiosity for other things you can do with dresser drawers.  Rather than tossing your old drawers to the curb, consider one of these ideas:

• Underbed storage – Better Homes & Gardens suggests putting casters on drawer bottoms to use them as under the bed storage.
• Bookcase – Country Living shows us how to build an adaptable modular storage system.  (Cool idea, btw!)
• Shelving – Mount an old drawer to the wall and use it for storage or knicknacks and decorations.  If your wall is made of drywall, be sure to drill into studs or use anchors.  This will help to hold the weight of the shelf.

What ways could you repurpose dresser drawers?

image (c) Karen Weideman

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There are 12 low cost recycled craft ideas, which include:

• fabric scrap balls
• patterned paper book covers
• yardstick frames  and vintage tin crafts supplies organizer
• painted jewelry box
• homemade license plate art
• magazine page frame and storage box
• paint cans turned organizer
• beaded luminarias
• paper covered jewelry boxes

Some of these crafts use items that you might have lying around the house such as cigar boxes, magazine pages, paint, glass telephone line insulators, and paint cans.

Which project do you think you’d like to try?

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