Artful Answers to Jewelry Clutter
Where do I put it all? How can I find it? Where are the matching earrings to that bracelet? Just a sec while I spend the next 30 minutes untangling this necklace.
Jewelry boxes just ain’t what they used to be. Women have far too much jewelry these days to store it all in a little box that fits on top of the dresser. The answer?
Artful displays of colorful gems to brighten any closet or bare wall! Here are just a few ideas for your precious collection of baubles and sparklers.
Be sure to share with us your jewelry de-clutter techniques.
Necklace/Jewelry Organizer
I made a two-tier shelf to hang all of those necklaces to keep them from tangling and for easy access.
Here’s how:
John found a few pieces of wood trim and cut them to 40-inch lengths and nailed them together.
This simple design provided two levels to hang many necklaces in a small space and still keep them separated. A little sanding a couple coats of primer and paint and it is ready to add hooks.I found large white upholstery tacks and nailed them about an inch apart across most of the shelf and a little further apart at the opposite end for wider bracelets. My board used exactly 100 tacks (4 boxes of 25).
I intended to hang this on a wall in my walk-in closet but thought it pretty enough to display in my dressing area with my necklaces right at my fingertips.
Necklace Organizer/Display
I used to have all my jewelry crammed into a box, and the necklaces were forever getting tangled together, broken, and buried until I forgot about their existence all together. A genius idea (if I do say so myself), a towel bar, and some shower curtain rings later, I have this:
It’s awesome, because not only is it super easy to pick out the necklaces I want to wear, but it looks really cute and bright, and never will a necklace tangle again. And if you get more necklaces, buy a few more shower curtain rings! I have a million necklaces on there, and it’s not overcrowded yet.
Repurpose Bathroom Hardware to Create a DIY Jewelry Rack
If you’re like me then you hate it when your necklaces get tangled and you can’t find the accessories that you want! I really wanted to have my favorite items visible so I came up with the idea of using bathroom hardware to hang up my necklaces and bracelets.
What You Need:
- Towel Rack
- S-rings (to hold the necklaces)
- Toilet paper holders
- Closet-maid baskets with attachment bracket.
A towel rack and hooks make a handy way to hang up necklaces and store your bracelets without them getting tangled up in a jewelry box.
Clipboards are a Stylish, Artful Way to Display Your Coolest Statement Necklaces.
Clipboards are simple to hang and easy to change for jewelry displays. The clipboards can be covered with cloth — in this case loose burlap — or contact paper, wrapping paper or scrapbook pages. Clipboards come in several sizes and the plain ones are quite inexpensive. The display as shown costs less than $20. Clear colored acrylic or pre-printed clipboards are available at a bit more cost.
If You’ve Got Wall Space in Your Closet, Utilize It.
I bought a picture frame from Michael’s and the mesh material used in screen doors from Home Depot. I cut piece of mesh large enough to fit inside the frame and hot glued the edges and let it dry for a few hours and I fasted loose edge with thumb tacks. (you can use a staple gun if you have one) Thats it!
Jewelry Organization
Because I’m a fan of all things big and obnoxious when it comes to accessories jewelry boxes wouldn’t work, pocket organizers weren’t big enough, and the necklace trees were too flimsy. Atlas I came up with my own version:
I took a regular cork board and covered it with this cute fabric scrap and painted the frame.