Upcycle An Old Pot Lid Organizer Into The Perfect Craft Room Storage Solution

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If you have integrated newer, functional kitchen trends to manage cookware clutter, it may not be the wisest decision to discard the storage solutions your pots, pans, and plates have outgrown. Instead, let's find new ways for them to serve their purpose beyond the kitchen. If you have an old pot lid organizer that no longer matches your latest kitchen setup, you can use it for something else. For example, a lot of the supplies in your craft room are waiting to be lined up neatly. This craft room storage solution will make use of the standard wire rack organizer, which looks like this pantry rack from Simple Housewares, this Dollar Tree Essentials Wire Dish Drying Rack, or even this wooden IKEA OSTBIT rack. Any pot lid organizer with multiple wire or wooden dividers will do.

This storage solution works well if you want to keep everything within sight because the dividers help eliminate sneaky sources of visual clutter. Using a pot lid organizer for storage also helps with the hassle of opening cabinets or boxes whenever you need to grab something while you're in a crafting flow state. Moreover, we know that some craft supplies can be bulky and won't fit in certain boxes or shelves, so a pot lid organizer works well if you want to line up items in an orderly fashion on top of a table or a cabinet.

There's really nothing else you need apart from the pot lid organizer itself, but if you want to up your organization game, you can use a box or a rectangular basket where the rack can fit in. This way, whatever you line up into the dividers won't slip or fall off that easily. Alternatively, you can use these boxes or baskets as risers in case you need height adjustments wherever you'll place your pot lid organizer, like on open shelves.

From here, you can stack any craft equipment neatly into the pot lid organizer's dividers. This works for a wide variety of crafting tools like trimmers, cutting boards, and silkscreens, or even supplies like canvases, sticker books, and cardstock. You can also stack books, journals, sketch pads, and smaller organizers on the rack, especially if you keep multiple pencil cases, craft pouches, or binders containing all sorts of scrapbooking materials. As long as it can fit in those dividers, pot lid organizers are a great, inexpensive solution to keeping your craft essentials decluttered and organized.