DIY: Creative Space for Nail Polish

Hello lovers.

So, now that I am unemployed and out of tasks.. I decided to organize my space and make use of my time. I am gonna pick up at least 2 tasks per week. Hopefully, I can share them with you guys.

Today, I went to get a huge coffee mug for myself. It was to inspire myself to drink at least a cup of Green Tea a day and go back to my diet. And I walked by something in the kitchen section that caught my eye. I was searching Nail Polish Stands online a month ago and they were SO expensive. Walking by a storage device for the kitchen pantry, an idea sparked up.

So.. let's get started!

Things you will need:

1. I got the Kitchen Pantry Organizer for $6 at my local Walmart.
Alternative: if you have something alike at home for storage OR if you are creative, you can build this with cardboard yourself.

2. A piece of cardboard (you can use shoe boxes or boxes from larger perfume sets). Mine was the Vera Wang Lovestruck Fragrance Box. Argh, I almost shed tears cutting it up. It was VERA WANG. Like, V-E-R-A   W-A-N-G. Okay, you probably got the point.

3. Scissors

4. Tape

5. Ruler

6. Pen

7. Ribbon/Fabric

8. All your amazing nail polishes :)

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Step 1
Get your props ready =) Plug in some music; get, set, go.

Step 2

Measure your organizer (Kitchen Pantry set) and the cardboard length at equal. Cut up the card board in accordance to the measurements.

Step 3

Cut thicker stripes to cover the pantry base. We are putting the cardboard on top to give it stability, in order for the nail polishes to stay still and not tilt over (which would very much happen with the original organizer itself).

Step 4

Start laying out the pieces of cardboard on top of the organizer and tape them as you go. For me, there were a few imperfections because I didn't have a cardboard cutter. The scissors I used were horrible. As you can see, I have three pairs of scissors in addition to an IKEA Knife (lol) and none of them worked properly. I still managed to move ahead with the process with the imperfections.

Step 5

Get a piece of fabric or a ribbon roll from the Dollar Store or Walmart. I got mine from Walmart for 3 bucks. I had to go for the Damask pattern even though they had some animal print ones as well =)

Lay the ribbon wherever you like it. My idea was to do three pieces of ribbon on the bottom shelf, two for the middle shelf and one for the top shelf =) You can decorate it any which way you like. You can even decorate it using more than one ribbon.

Step 6

Keep taping the cardboard by measuring pieces and applying ribbon according to however you wanna decorate it. It's really not that hard, but just time consuming.

Step 7

Here, I was finishing up with the top row. I ran out of ribbon AND cardboard pieces, but somehow
sufficed, with a little tweaking here and there. Also, I was clumsy with the tape since I was doing it all by  myself, but hopefully you guys can do a better job.

Step 8 

Fix any imperfections and your ALL DONE =D

Step 9

Grab all your nail polishes and categorize them any way you like!

Step 10

If you happen to make yours, definitely give me a shout! =P

Two and a half hours later.. (with many distractions in the middle such as Harv's phone, Nish's phone, random grocery item that I went out to get for my mom in the middle, and chatting with my grandma WHILE making this...)

Check out the following video and leave me some love if you happened to like this idea =)