Martha Stewart's Best Ever Organizing Crafts

A little while back, we brought you a post filled with Martha Stewart's best craft ideas. While pouring over old issues of the magazine, digging around on MarthaStewart.com and reading Martha Stewart's Encyclopedia of Crafts, we couldn't help but notice that Martha has an awful lot of great organizing crafts. It makes sense, Martha is crafty and she's awfully organized. Have you see the gallery of her craft room? It's uber-organized.) So, as a sister post to our round-up of Martha Stewart's best craft ideas, here are Martha Stewart's best-ever organizing projects.

Above: Who knew vintage, ceramic soap dishes could be such an organizing asset? Martha did, that's who. Turn a former soap holder into a bulletin board accessory or a place to stash you keys.

Humble clipboards are transformed into an attractive, multi-paneled bulletin board.


Simple, but, oh so smart, this over-the-door shelf to hold toiletries in the bathroom was one of Martha's straightforward ideas that made us think, 'Why didn't I think of that myself?" Another, so simple it's genius storage idea? Using wooden brackets as shelf dividers.

While this D.I.Y. charging station didn't technically run in one of Martha's namesake publications (it appeared in the now-defunct Blueprint), it was a great idea in the same vein as many of Martha's best organization ideas: It's a handsome and practical way to tackle a common organizing conundrum, and it is a more affordable alternative to pricey versions you could buy at a store.

Pegboard -- usually relegated to the garage or the woodshop -- is one of the last things you'd think could be given the Martha Stewart touch, but you'd be wrong. Time and again Martha's team has come up with clever and eye-catching ways to use pegboard throughout the home. We love this simple pegboard organizer and it's cousin, the gift wrap organizer.