DIY Drawer Dividers for Desk Organizing Tutorial

The first you need to do is empty your drawer and measure the inside.

Cut a piece of cardstock the exact size of your drawer. It should fit perfectly inside your drawer.

Place your drawer pattern on a table and start placing your items on it where you think they should be.

Once you are happy with the placement, make marks with a pencil between each item or group of items.

Then trace lines that surround the items. You should get something like this (with your own spaces of course):

Test the pattern in your drawer to see if you like it.

Time to design your drawer dividers.

The pattern gives you the size of the base of your drawer dividers. Now you need to decide the height.

I decided I wanted to make the sides stronger so I added an overlap that folds outwards. But this is totally optional.

Formula to draw your drawer divider pattern:

Overlap - Side - base - side - overlap .

If you don’t want the overlap then it’s:

Side - base - side.

Cut the out line borders.

So once you finish you should have something like this and this is how it works:

Cut out the corners as shown.

Then cut the 4 lines I showed in red.

The overlaps should be fold out wards:

Then the sides are folded inwards.

Apply glue to the flaps and glue them to the sides on the outside.

Then glue the overlap.

Let it dry for a few minutes and there you go!!!

Make all the drier dividers you need and start putting them in your drawer.

Voila!!!

We got some pretty drawers here!!!

Put your all your items as planned in your drawers and see the amazing different a few dividers can make.

Time to put those drawers back into the desk.