Stylish Storage Drawers

Those ugly plastic storage drawers are great for holding craft supplies.  I use some for my fabric stash, scrapbook papers, stamping supplies and kid's craft stuff.  They hold a lot of items in drawers that are easy to keep organized.  The downside is that the see-through plastic drawers look full of clutter.


A few months ago, I saw how someone had made their drawers look better using fabric.  I loved the look, but didn't want to waste expensive fabric making the drawers look pretty.  Instead, I used scrap book paper.  The cost of the materials for 4 sets of stacking drawer sets was about $2.50 which made my frugal-self happy.  The papers were easy to cut with my long-arm cutter and the whole project only took about 30 minutes.

After measuring the height of each drawer, I cut the 12" scrapbook papers, then used tiny pieces of scotch tape to adhere the corners and center of each piece of paper to the drawer.  The tape was placed on the back of the paper and folded to the top edge of the drawer.  Now my craft area isn't such an eye sore!

  

Color

I need to pick a color for my bedroom and the family room at the other house. My brain is on color overload and I'm almost out of ideas. Michael wanted the dining room and kitchen to be very light, so they ended up almost white. The color is actually a creamy very light yellow, but at certain times of the day the walls appear white. Madelyn's room (which is actually supposed to be the living room) is a beautiful spring green. It's a cheerful room and my favorite color. The hall and stairway are both white. The upstairs bathroom is green and white with blue accents. Paige and Allie's bedroom is bubble gum pink. The boys' bedroom is red and black, with white trim. Katie's bedroom is neon green and black. She has decided that she wants the ceiling to be white, instead of black, so more painting will need to be done in her room.

My bedroom is the only room that is keeping the carpeting. The previous owners installed dusty rose carpeting in the master bedroom. YUCK! Originally, we had planned on painting the master bedroom deep taupe, but since we've decided to keep the carpeting, taupe won't work. My current bedding is greens and I made a quilt in browns that I had planned to use. Any suggestions?

Mike decided that we will be using part of our huge tax return to buy new furniture for the family room. He's got his eye on some grey sofas. The family room doesn't get a lot of natural light, so I need to keep the walls fairly light, but I don't want boring. Any suggestions? The family room has entryways to the kitchen and dining room.

Normally, painting is something I love to do. Choosing new wall color and watching rooms change in appearance is fun. Unfortunately, my brain is not working right and I'm out of ideas. Maybe it's because we've been painting since October. All the walls needed 2 coats of primer, so I've actually painted every room 4 times. Only three rooms to go.