Tyree Jefferson
When I started this blog I said that I would include different kinds of posts…including craft ideas. At the end of Christmas, we would take extra time and put the totes back in a particular order…knowing how we typically decorate the house.
With a system similar to the above, we could access every single tote individually…whenever we needed it. My totes all hold approximately the same capacity (18 gallons), but since they were all purchased at different times and from different manufacturers, they are different colors and their outside dimensions varied. And, even as OCD as I am, I wasn’t about to go out and purchase brand new matching totes. However, I want to explain that the above system is not cheap but it is extremely easy to assemble.
Using 3/4″ PVC, the pipe by itself cost under $100 and we ended up with two large completed racks on both sides of our garage. Our local Lowe’s and Home Depot did not carry the connectors we needed. The cube is shorter in depth because you want the totes to rest on the bottom edges.
And, the wonderful thing about this PVC project is that you don’t have to glue anything.
Everything snaps into place, but it can be taken apart if you want to adjust your bins or take it with you when you move. We had originally written on the totes what was inside using permanent marker.
You can Google “how to remove permanent marker from plastic totes’ for hints on how to do this.) Then, we attached some adhesive pocket sleeves on the front of each tote.
This was much cheaper than any of the file drawer labels or brackets that I found. As you can see, we actually adjusted one column of cubes to accommodate one of our Christmas trees. Originally, we had planned for this to go horizontally, but the cubes on top of it started bowing.
