Box Organizer

This cabinet insert is designed to organize all the boxes of foil, and Ziploc bags that tend to accumulate in a pile if left to their own devices. My inspiration for this project came when I opened the cabinet and a large box of aluminum foil fell end-first on to my bare foot. The resultant burst of profanity was followed by a burst of inspiration.

The organizer is simply a two-level box with 1/8” grooves that accept hardboard dividers to separate the individual boxes. Close inspection of the upper right corner shows a storage area for extra dividers. Space above allows for storage of extra-long boxes.

Since I don’t own a table-saw, these grooves required a little creative fence work on the router table. The only problem was that the hardboard was a little thicker than the grooves. To solve this, I made a little jig composed of a block of wood with a keeper strip on one edge. When clamped to one of the hardboard dividers, it exposed a width equal to the depth of the groove. A couple of strokes with the shoulder plane solved the problem. The keeper strip made fast positioning possible on the MANY edges I had to trim.

I SUPPOSE I could have painted the dividers, but…....NAHHH!

-- Robert from Raymond, MS. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not a practice, but a habit." - Aristotle