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Furniture Makeover
Use a Dresser to Organize Your Garage!
By Tawra Kellam
One drawer is for electrical items. This includes outlets, outlet covers, electrical testing equipment, wire crimpers, lamp pieces and any other electrical thing we are likely to use. (Just as with any organizing, don't save stuff you'll never use just because you can.)
We have a drawer for paint supplies: roller handles, paintbrushes, sand paper and such. (We don't keep paint there. We have a separate small plastic shelf unit with our stash of paint.)
The top left drawer is our nail and screw drawer. We have two plastic embroidery floss organizers, each with twenty or so slots. We use one organizer for nails and the other for screws. When both of these containers are in the drawer, there is still room for a few whole boxes of the nails and screws we use most often.
We seem to have problems with cords, so one drawer is just for cords. It includes a few lamp cords, cable wire, phone wire and other cords. I make each one into a coil and slide it into a toilet paper roll to keep it separate from the others. My husband likes to just wind each one up and wrap it like a noose.
There is a drawer that includes nothing but batteries, one for glues and adhesives and another dedicated exclusively to light bulbs. Another drawer is for miscellaneous hardware. This is the drawer for felt pads for chair legs, baby locks, door stops and all kinds of other items that don't have homes in any of the other drwers.
