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  1. Hi Joy, Thanks for sharing again. Love your Ikea tubs. I do use plastic containers for my projects and have a couple shelves with little baskets for the different colors of material. I have never been to Ikea yet but hope to go in the future when I get a little better from this chronic fatigue. Nancy

  2. I use lots of plastic tubs too but they are a mish mash of all sorts of shapes and sizes… one day I will get them more coordinated…. yours look great and I like those tubs as drawers… great with lids (we do get visiting mice sometimes!)
    Hugz

  3. Thanks for that info on the Ikea tubs. DD uses these for her kids, but I’d never thought of it for us grownups (heehee). You know a lot of what I use, though since the move, I’ve bought some nice woven tape type baskets from The Reject Shop. They’re pretty & easy to handle & I have them in those white timber cube storage. Great to hear about all this & take care.

  4. Alas, we don’t have an Ikea close to us but on the few times I’ve managed to get there I do agree that it’s amazing. Haven’t seen this tub storage system and seriously wish I had room in my sewing space to have them. If I could only find those two strong men who would be willing to undertake the removal of the pull out couch that’s pretty much useless I could have some great storage space.
    Re the use of tubs – my sewing room has a double closet and I have it stacked floor to ceiling with various sizes of tubs and lots of dollar store plastic shoeboxes that are filled with things. So glad to have that closet space!!

  5. I hope they are cheaper there because you are closer to Sweden! I just looked online at the price of a system like you have standing next to your sewing machine, and it’s definitely out of my budget. The closest one to me is Atlanta, and that’s over 200 miles. My son uses a lot of things from Ikea – maybe all his furniture, I’m not sure.

    The tubs alone aren’t too bad, but I think I’ll be sticking with my Sterlite shoeboxes at $1 each for a while yet. I have a lot of the shoeboxes. I used to use the larger multiple-quart size drawers, but they changed how they make them, and I don’t like the new ones. The old ones went away quite a while ago to someone else. Just looking at your room makes me realize how out of control mine is right now!

  6. I hear so much about Ikea – sadly it’s not in NZ (yet?) but it does seem like a great place to lose yourself! And it obviously delivers good storage systems 🙂

  7. I use tubs, too, but my favorite storage system is a solid wood dresser I bought for $10 at a yard sale and repainted white and aqua. I made labels for the 9 drawers and use the top as a place for my small cutting mat right beside my sewing desk.

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