2 High Custom Drawer Organizer Strips

DIY: Custom Drawer Dividers

Feb 21

Happy Friday!

If you are looking for another fun weekend, organization project – look no further than this blog post. Especially if you have kitchen drawers that look like this…

Uh-huh. Would you believe me if I said those drawers belong to me? Yes, this little organizer was hiding a big secret in her kitchen. Hard to believe right?…

The drawer dividers you see in those messy drawers? Do you recognize those? I'm sure we all have something similar and they don't fit. Well, they fit, but typically only one. Maybe two. And when you have that organizer in the drawer, it's not a custom fit so your contents slide around all over the place when you open and close the drawer. Right?

Annoying!

Not to mention, most of the large utensils don't fit inside the openings. Which means while some items may be inside the organizer, others are out of the organizer and free to slide all around.

While shopping in the Container Store for a client, I discovered these custom drawer organizer strips that are customizable for any drawer…

Says "Easy Do-It-Yourself". Oh rrrrreeeeeallly?! Now you've piqued my interest…and challenged me. Because you know I'm all about a good, easy, DIY project.

Turns out not only were they easy to install, but I LOVE the end result!

First, I started by emptying the contents of my kitchen drawers…

I sorted through the various items to purge a few that were either duplicates or not being used. Then I cleaned out my drawers with a damp cloth and lined each with contact paper. I found this pretty pattern at Target…

Once the drawer was lined, I created a pattern by putting the items back into the drawer the way I ultimately wanted them to be…and then created the custom dividers around that pattern.

After measuring each length I needed for each section, I scored the divider using a box cutter…

Then placed the divider on the edge of the counter and snapped it in half…

I continued the process until my drawers looked like this…

And after playing around a bit with the adhesive holders that firmly secure the dividers in place, finally the drawer looked like this…

It really was easy! The measuring took some time because I'm a perfectionist and wanted a great looking outcome. But otherwise, it was simple!

Now, here are my newly customized kitchen drawers…

But guess what? I'm sure you may have some questions or want to see exactly how I scored and snapped those dividers. Right? Well, I actually went out of my comfort zone again and made a video for you guys. Oh yes I did! I'll be editing it this weekend to share with you on Monday (unless of course I finish it sooner – then it might be up this weekend). I left one drawer just like this for the video…

If you're looking for an easy weekend organization project and you have messy drawers in the house, consider this product / idea. It's super easy! And also great for renter's or as a temporary (or permanent) solution.

Back soon with the video!