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Furniture Makeover
Use a Dresser to Organize Your Garage!
By Tawra Kellam
It seems like organizing your garage can be a never-ending task. Lots of companies make millions of dollars selling all kinds of storage systems to try to make your garage just a little bit more organized. OK, I'm about to confess. We've had this problem, too! I know, it's hard to believe, isn't it? The cool thing is we found a great organization tool that cost us nothing.
We have a dresser that was given to us by a relative. It's an old 1970s-style dresser with nine drawers. It is about 3 feet tall, 8 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It was one of those pieces of furniture that makes one wonder, "Why would anyone ever have bought that?" It had the faux wood countertop on top and the drawer faces were covered with those really tacky twirly relief patterns people really liked in the '70s. Still, much to my husband's surprise, I could see the value in it!
First, I designated each drawer as a place for one category of supplies, and I marked each drawer with a little index card that I stapled to the front of the drawer with a staple gun.
