A perfect store for crafty bits

I'm thrilled with our two new sets of storage drawers, which were bought with some money kindly given to me for my birthday.



Not only are they wonderfully cheerful, but they are also extremely practical and useful.

They are made by Really Useful Company, who also make the well-named Really Useful Boxes. They are from Hobbycraft and, with discount vouchers, ended up costing about £33 and £20. I haven't often used Hobbycraft before but they do seem to be quite kind about offering discount vouchers.

I find the drawers absolutely ideal for storing crafty things. The individual drawers in the taller unit are a very useful size (7 litres, measuring about 370mm x 230mm x 80mm) and having so many of them means that there is plenty of space. They are easy to lift out if you wanted to carry a project elsewhere to work on, though I tend just to decant things into Whitefurze's brilliant AllStore boxes (of which I have zillions).

I was all set just to buy the tall drawer unit as I was less keen on the smaller one in the shop as it had far fewer drawers and hence colours (though I later realised that I liked it much better with the drawers arranged in rainbow order, instead of the way they had it on display with purple next to yellow!). We then realised that we could swap the drawer arrangement round as the two towers have the same footprint. The shorter one is now a bit shorter still so that it can fit under the slopey bit on the landing...



...and the other one a bit bigger, with a very useful deeper drawer. (They aren't actually designed to allow this kind of swap - the Technomage had to break a little bit of plastic in one of the corners to do it.)



I've thoroughly enjoyed arranging things in the drawers - now I just need to knuckle under and do some sewing!