Use IKEA Products To Make An Incredible Cabinet And Workspace For Your Crafts

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If you enjoy sewing, painting, knitting, or just about any other form of crafts, you're probably familiar with how much storage space your hobby materials can take up. Instead of dividing your supplies between the desk drawers, closets, and shelves that are close to your workstation, you should consider creating a setup in which your workstation and craft storage are one and the same fixture. A smart DIY from HelenKukovski on YouTube provides us with a great example of this. In a short video, Helen shows us how she used two IKEA GERSBY bookcases, a couple of FONNES cabinet doors, and a pair of PLATSA wardrobes to make an incredible cabinet and workspace for your crafts with a foldout table and plenty of shelves. In this arrangement, the two bookcases serve as cabinet doors for the two wardrobes. The table, meanwhile, comes out from the right-side wardrobe with a couple of hinges. This space-saving design is definitely one of the best craft room organization hacks for small homes.

To DIY a similar craft workspace cabinet, you'll need to pick up the same IKEA furnishings that Helen uses in her video, plus some swivel casters, right-angle brackets, door butt hinges, and latch locks. For the inside table, you'll need a splash of white paint, a handful of smaller hinges, and wood pieces for both the surface and the legs of the fixture. If you can't find the wardrobes or cabinet doors at your local IKEA, you could try making them yourself with MDF wood.

To begin, assemble the frames of your GERSBY bookcases according to their directions, but leave the back panels and shelves off. Paint the edges white, and attach right-angle brackets along the back to support the cabinet doors. The doors should fit over the backside of the bookcases so that they'll face forward when you fold the furnishing inward. After you've put them on, install caster wheels on the bottom of each bookcase. ASHGOOB 2-Inch Heavy Duty Casters, for example, should work perfectly. Now, build your PLATSA wardrobes, or preferred replacements. Push them together against your wall, and put your bookcases to either side. Then, connect the two furnishing types together with door hinges.

Now it's time to build the table. Take a plank of finished wood with a width that matches the inside of your wardrobes, and paint it white. Cut two table legs, and a crossbar to fit between them, and screw them together in an H-shaped formation. Attach the legs to the bottom of the table with hinges, and the table to one of the wardrobe shelves with more hinges. Next, fit latch locks onto the bottom of the table's outside edge, and drill a few slots for them into your wardrobe. You could use magnetic push latches instead to make taking the table out even easier. Lastly, install your bookcase shelves. If you like this DIY design, try building a space-saving pull out table that doubles as storage.