Remember our tutorial a few posts ago on how to build a built-in utensil divider for your silverware drawer? Ya know, this one? Well, having my utensil divider built-in to my drawer has rocked my world. So much, in fact, that I made a special trip to Home Depot to buy more melamine so that TJ could help me tackle my dreaded junk drawer.
I was so excited to get going on the project, that I forgot to take a "before" picture. So, google image search has kindly provided me with a picture of someone else's junk drawer.
I can assure you that my drawer looked a lot like this, if not worse. I swear to you, I was cleaning out that drawer and organizing it almost once a week and within a few hours, it looked like I had never touched it. I thought about buying some plastic baskets to try to organize it, but I knew I'd never be able to get the arrangement just right with those baskets.
I started by taking everything out of my junk drawer (and throwing away all the junk I didn't really need). I cleaned the drawer out, then I started slowing put things back in and trying to figure out an arrangement. Once I got a section how I wanted it, I would send TJ down to the basement to cut me my piece of melamine to divide it. Finally, we got it just how I wanted it.
