How To Turn Your Old Shoe Rack Into An Easy To Use Gift Wrapping Station
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Maybe you've finally whittled down your shoe collection, or perhaps you've decided to DIY built-in shoe storage in your closet to free up floor space. Now you're left wondering what to do with your old shelf-style shoe rack. An over-the-door shoe organizer is one perfect storage hack for cluttered wrapping paper, but can you set up a similar gift-wrapping station with an ordinary shoe rack? It's simple: turn the shoe rack on its side, and add a basket at the bottom, then slide wrapping paper tubes in from the top so they're held upright. This is a great way to repurpose an old or flimsy shoe rack into a handy wrapping paper station, which will be especially useful ahead of the holidays.
Before getting started, take a look at your shoe rack to see if this hack will work for you. Shoe racks of various materials and any number of shelves will work, but it's important that the rack has open sides. A standard wrapping paper roll is about 30 inches wide. Your shoe rack should be slightly shorter than this from end to end. This way, it will be tall enough to adequately support the rolls once flipped.
Flip a shoe rack for vertical wrapping paper storage
If you don't have an old one you'd like to repurpose, you can also purchase an affordable new shoe rack to use as this gift-wrapping station. This ROMGUAR CRAFT 3-Tier Bamboo Shoe Rack has the perfect length and open sides. Assemble it as usual, or give your old shoe rack a gentle wipe-down to remove dust and dirt.
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Flip the shoe rack on its short edge to make it a vertical column. If desired, add a rectangular basket at the bottom to help keep the bottom of your rolls in place. You can even repurpose a cardboard shoe box. If the shoe rack tilts when turned upright, you may need to level it with furniture feet, like these TWIG Threaded Adjustable Furniture Levelers. To take your gift wrapping station to the next level, screw in hooks or use curtain rings to hang scissors, tape, ribbon rolls, and other gift wrapping tools on the sides of the shoe rack. You can also get creative by attaching baskets for pens, gift tags, sticky bows, and more.
With that, the construction of your gift wrapping station is complete, and you can now slide the wrapping paper rolls into the top of the rack. Use the shelves to your advantage by separating Christmas, birthday, and wedding papers into their own compartments. If you have two shoe racks, you can even repeat this hack by adding a plank across both racks to DIY your own gift-wrapping table with built-in storage. When the gift-wrapping rush is over, move this shoe rack into a closet or craft room for easy wrapping paper storage that stays organized — or check out other smart ways to repurpose a shoe rack around your home.