Are your drawers a nightmare?
How to organise your drawers so they're not so scary?
From brushes to bobbles, belts to bracelets, bibs to babygrows -
we all have lots of bits and bobs in our bedroom, kitchen, home
office that we need storing away. Plus, of course we all have
THAT drawer, with everything else in!
From junk to jewellery we've superb solutions so you can find
exactly what you want, whenever you want.
What's the drawers' big draw?
Tidying feels good. It's deeply satisfying to transform
everything from a mess into being organised and easy to find.
Your friends will be impressed when they pop round and everyone
can relax...order is restored, chaos becomes calmness, stress is
soothed, tempers are tamed - and for a fraction of a price of a
messy divorce!
Here we'll show you the best drawer organisers that will work for
any drawer...
Where do I start?
Well, like most storage projects, we use a proven three stage
formula: Clear out, Clean out and Sort out...
1. CLEAR OUT
Remove everything from your drawer.
Top Tip: Have cardboard boxes or a large table
ready for the contents.
2. CLEAN OUT
Clean out the drawer and clean the contents that you're keeping
so it goes back in tidy and fresh.
3. SORT OUT
Donate to a charity shop or recycle anything you're not going to
use anymore.
Measure up.
Measure the height, width and depth of your drawer.
Add drawer liners.
You could just add some sturdy lining paper, thick brown parcel
paper - or even old wallpaper. They also help protect drawers
from scratches, dents and marks.
Our easy-to-cut-to-size Elfa Shelf Liner works well and makes it
easy to wipe clean dust and spills.
Use Dividers.
Our Drawer organiser dividers are so versatile; just cut them to
fit any size drawers. These 6 plastic organisers are like double-sided combs that link together to section off and sort out mess.
Use Drawer Organiser Sets
Our 7-piece drawer organiser sets, in two sizes, fit any standard
60cm or 80cm drawer in your home office, bedroom or kitchen. Got
different sized drawers? Just arrange the boxes the way they work
for you.
Top Tip: For deeper bedroom and home office
drawers, try using old shoe boxes.
Our sturdy square or rectangular fibreboard drawer organisers are
road tested by us - like everything we sell. So we know why they
cut the mustard and divide up bedroom or home officer drawers
brilliantly. Choose from Grey/Blue or two-tone Pink.
Ideal to stop ties and belts rolling around when opening/closing
drawers - plus stop them unravelling in a snake-like mess that
jumbles up everything in the drawer when you pull them out.
Top Tip: Roll ties from the thin end first. Roll
belts so you end up with the buckle on the outside.
Our 5-Piece Set is a drawer organising star -
well lots of stars actually! So it can sort and store anything from
clothes to craft supplies, baby stuff to beauty care, toiletries to
stationery.
Our Peggy
Kitchen Drawer Organiser has a handy peg board system that
expands to neatly store pans, plates, bakeware, plastic storage
containers and more.
Flex to fit
Many of our storage solutions are
e-x-p-a-n-d-a-b-l-e to fit the width of depth of any standard size
drawer.
Our sturdy plastic Set of 2 Expandable Drawer Organisers extend
from 33.7-51.4cm to partition any standard size drawer from front
to back.
Our In-Drawer Extendable Spice Rack from
iDesign keeps your little jars close to hand. Try organising
by sweet or savoury, herbs or spices or even alphabetically.
Top Tip: Store spices in a drawer away from heat
and light - not next to the cooker - to protect them from being
destroyed.
See our extending cutlery tray organisers in small and
large in Bamboo
Wood or Plastic.
Our Reo Cutlery Tray isn't expandable, but it does
add a pop of colour and brightness to your kitchen drawer.
Our see-through plastic Set of 2 Expandable Organisers and our acrylic
2-Compartment Organiser are ideal for sorting
messy drawer of kitchen utensils, cutlery, make-up, pens,
stationery, napkins and more.
Shop all expandable organisers
Top Tip: Use your imagination and see the
potential in every piece. So if it's shown with kitchen utensils
but your won't it for your hair brushes, straighteners and
curlers then go for it: if it fits, it works!
Storage that stacks up
We love Stackers: they're modular multiple layers of trays and
boxes for stacking all your jewellery layer-by-layer - ideal for
popping in a drawer.
We've Stackers for rings, earrings, cufflinks, brooches and
bangles, necklaces and watches. Everything with its own
place!
See all Stackers
Top Tip: Polish away the tarnish on gold and
silver jewellery so they're in tip top shape, before you pop them
into your Stacker.
Top Tip: Put everyday items on the top layer so
they're easy to hand.
Our felt-lined Stackers Glasses Cases have a cleverly designed
raise 'bridge' in the middle to keep your glasses facing upright. It's also recently been featured in a write-up by a co-founder of Banton Frameworks Jamie Bartlett about the best sunglasses and spectacle organisers.
How to fold clothes for your drawers
Stack flat and clothes get crushed or creased. Plus the ones
underneath are a hassle to retrieve and threaten to mess up all the
others.
Here's a simpler way ; stack vertically like a filing cabinet - the
Marie Kondo way!
You can see and reach every item. It folds all clothes into
rectangles of the same size/shape.
It's so simple with our step-by-step guide...
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Lay out your item flat: eg a t-shirt.
Fold one half into the middle, plus the sleeve back, so the side
silhouette is straight and there's a straight line down the
middle.
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Fold the other side in. Your t-shirt is now a long rectangle
Top Tip: If you've long sleeves: fold them down
the rectangle and back up, so they're within the rectangle.
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Fold the rectangle so it's almost in half
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Fold it again either in half, or a third if it's a long item.
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Stand it upright and store it inside your drawer organisers
