I have a project I have been wanting to do for awhile…to decorate and clean-up the laundry room.  I have accomplished a few things, but there is oh so much more to do.  Its finally time to get ‘er done.  I will highlight the overall room in a later post.  Instead, today, we have a focus…storage.

Now while I do have a great set of cabinets over the washer and dryer:

More storage was needed.

There was empty wall space (unfortunately I don’t have a before picture) above the sink area (pictures later).  Andreas was kind enough to hang shelves there for me:

Now what to do so I could hide those rags and just bottles of stuff.   I didn’t want the space to look junky as it does on the 2nd shelf in the above picture.  So I searched for a basket or container of some sorts.  Do you know how hard it is to find options that don’t break the bank?  I knew I wasn’t willing to pay a ton of money for storage that would be:

1. Hidden behind a door and
2. That was in the laundry room that no one else really sees but the family

As you can see in the picture…I did find some.  However, I actually had to make them.  I wish I could take the design credit myself, but I scoped a favorite site that, I am sure, we all go to for creative ideas and this is what I came up with:

How I made them?

I went to our local home improvement store and found a standard cardboard box (size was based on the measurements needed):

Then I decided on the colors that I wanted to use and bought some duct tape:

And there you have it!  A box covered in duct tape, the new craze.  In fact, such a craze that one of the reality fashion designer shows had the teams competing to design a prom dress using duct tape.  Even the owner of the duct tape company was wearing duct tape (no not a prom dress, but a tie).  What has this world come to?  Ha!

You will have to wait to see the final design space when I highlight the room itself on a later post.

Your challenge:  Are you struggling to find the right storage for your space?  Think outside the box (Ha…no pun intended) and see what you come up with.  Whether you use a box (as seen above) and paint, stencil, etc or whether you use a laundry basket and add ribbon, find something that fits your budget.

More storage ideas to come!!