Turn A Common Thrift Store Find Into A Storage Organizer

If you're someone who loves the culinary aisles in a thrift store, you are likely familiar with the stacks of baking sheets, muffin tins, and bread pans lining the shelves. Those items might look intriguing, but chances are good you also have stacks of kitchen essentials just like them in your own cupboards, and you're not really sure what you would do with another Bundt pan in your life. But Bundt pans do not need to be limited to the kitchen, as there are several ways to repurpose a Bundt pan in your home or garden. These fluted cake molds may be just the thing you need to organize your spaces simply by turning them into storage organizers.

Bundt pans abound at thrift stores, antique malls, and secondhand stores, and they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles, and materials. In a video from Donna at Funky Junk Interiors on HometalkTV, an old Bundt pan is turned into a makeup organizer, inspiring even more ideas about how to use these common thrift store finds in unexpected ways. Use them as yarn caddies for knitting projects, or as desktop organizers. You could even glam one up with some paint, embellishments, or fabric scraps and Mod Podge. Another option is to repurpose an old furniture leg into a base and make a tiered organizer with a few cake mold pans. You could also use a dowel or industrial pipes for this purpose.

Bundt pans have a shape that works well for organizing a wide range of items. If you can find some kind of cap or lid to plug the bottom of the center hole and glue it in place, then you can even use the hole in the middle to store things like makeup brushes, pencils, scissors, and paintbrushes. For example, if your craft and DIY supplies need a declutter, head to the thrift store before you start organizing and pick up a couple of these. Imagine decorating one in colors to match your bedroom decor and using it as a jewelry catchall on your nightstand.

You can use these Bundt pan organizers in any room of the house. In the bathroom, use them to organize hair ties, clips, and brushes. They would also make excellent kids' art supply holders, since they are durable and have a fun shape. Once you start getting creative with this idea, you can even find ways to use Bundt pans for storage in your shed or garage. You might try creating a tiered one for your outdoor barbecue area to hold supplies like utensils, seasonings, or grilling tools.

Whether used under a kitchen sink to hold small cleaning supplies or on a coffee table to hold remotes, these organizers are highly versatile. In addition to the tiered organizer idea, you can use them as decorative storage accents by hanging them on the wall or suspending them from the ceiling with a macrame hanger.