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DIY Drawer Dividers for Desk Organizing Tutorial

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Using nothing but cardstock (and glue), you can create some pretty DIY drawer dividers in a matter of minutes that will tame your drawer-mess monster.
Category DIY & Craft, Organization
Topic Easy Crafts, Paper Craft
Keyword drawer dividers, drawer organization, organization, paper craft
Prep Time 25 minutes
Crafting Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes
Pieces 2 Drawers
Author Camila Rojas
Cost 5

Equipment

  • Cutter or Scissors
  • Embossing tool (optional)

Ingredients

  • Cardstock plain or scrapbook cardstock work perfectly
  • Glue
  • Pencil
  • Ruller
  • Paper clips

Instructions

  • The first you need to do is empty your drawer and measure the inside.
    Empty white desk drawer on a worktable surrounded by office supplies, cardstock, glue, and a ruler.
  • 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.
    Drawer template placed inside the empty desk drawer to check the planned divider layout.
  • 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 .
    Cardstock drawer divider pattern labeled with base, sides, flaps, overlaps, cut lines, and corner sections.
  • 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.
    Patterned cardstock organizer partially folded with side walls and corner flaps taking shape.
  • 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!!!
    Folding the patterned overlap section down over the outside of the cardstock organizer wall.
  • 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.
    Organized desk drawer filled with custom patterned cardstock compartments holding office supplies, cables, tape, and small tools.

Notes

It's hard to give exact measurements because each drawer is different and the space needed for each item for each person is also different so following the pattern provided you can make dividers for any size.