Showing posts with label storage solutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage solutions. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Box o Books: DIY Home Storage

Like any good little Bonham, our kiddo has a TON of books. This is apparently genetic since Mommy and Daddy own an awful lot of books as well. Our living room can get quite messy as Kaypha is still a little guy and isn't very good at putting books away on a bookshelf (where the books had been living).

He does, however, love putting things inside of stuff. One of his favorite games is to put little items into a bucket and then dump the bucket out and put everything back into the bucket again. I decided to try and use this to my advantage in order to maybe get a little help cleaning up and deciding we needed a bin system for storing books. Regular bins aren't cute enough to put out in the living room and baskets can be pricey (I didn't already have one that was the right size to fit under my table). Instead, I threw some craft supplies together and came up with this...


And the best part was that is was free because I made it from stuff I had on hand. Ya'll know that free is my favorite price!  Here's how I did it:
Showing posts with label storage solutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage solutions. Show all posts

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Box o Books: DIY Home Storage

Like any good little Bonham, our kiddo has a TON of books. This is apparently genetic since Mommy and Daddy own an awful lot of books as well. Our living room can get quite messy as Kaypha is still a little guy and isn't very good at putting books away on a bookshelf (where the books had been living).

He does, however, love putting things inside of stuff. One of his favorite games is to put little items into a bucket and then dump the bucket out and put everything back into the bucket again. I decided to try and use this to my advantage in order to maybe get a little help cleaning up and deciding we needed a bin system for storing books. Regular bins aren't cute enough to put out in the living room and baskets can be pricey (I didn't already have one that was the right size to fit under my table). Instead, I threw some craft supplies together and came up with this...


And the best part was that is was free because I made it from stuff I had on hand. Ya'll know that free is my favorite price!  Here's how I did it:

 
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