I love going to stores and viewing the house-ware departments, slowly drooling over the kitchen supplies and storage items I do not need but wish I could place in my imaginary apartment. I only recently got an old desk moved into my already cramped room and needed some sort of shelving system under it to store books and whatnot. Problem was, the specific dimensions I needed and particulars I wanted the shelving to have was almost impossible to find. 28″ high and 14″ wide, shelving so no drawers, something I could stack or take apart. And finally, preferably plastic since wood was hard to maneuver.
I went to Target, Staples, Kmart, Costco, even 99 cents stores. I had no ride to Ikea and after weeks of searching last night I finally gave in to the pile of books scattered on the floor that consisted of sketchbooks, school books, folders, library books, and memo pads. I found cardboard boxes and stacked them accordingly. Tetris at its finest.
So there was my solution: DIY poor man’s shelving. But it does the job.The books are stacked on the desk and below and everything is organized. So you never HAVE to spend money on storage items, even though they do help. For temporary cases it never hurts to be creative. Even people who buy actual items from Ikea have found ways to manipulate them to serve their purposes.
For other DIY furniture needs, or even just regular dorm (or dorm sized) items, CampusClipper is here to help with a coupon for Ace Hardware. Keep saving my DIY friends.
Sophia, Rochester Institute of Technology
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