DIY Craft Room PegBoard Storage Tutorial

Yes­ter­day I shared the full post about our office/craft room refresh project! A huge part of that makeover was installing some pre-fab shelv­ing, but we also did a cou­ple of lit­tle DIY projects that helped my lit­tle closet space immensely, start­ing with peg­board craft sup­ply storage!

This was an incred­i­bly easy project to do–one that requires few sup­plies and you can do for under $30 (depend­ing on the size of your boards). All of my sup­plies were pur­chased at Lowe’s.

Here’s what you’ll need:

• peg­board (you can have them cut it to the sizes you’ll need in the store for free).
• spray paint (I used Rus­toleum Black Tex­tured Metal­lic) or other paint if you’d like it col­ored, or you can buy white peg­board in the store (but it’s more expensive).
• 11/16″ white shoe mould­ing (enough to frame your pegboard).
• Saw & mitre box
• small (1/2 ” — 1″) wood pieces–to attach to the back so the peg­board sticks out from the wall
• wood glue
• screws & dry wall anchors (2 per pegboard)
• peg­board accessories/hardware (hooks, bas­kets, etc.)

Direc­tions:

1. *Optional — spray paint or paint with the color of your choice

2. Cut shoe mould­ing to length & width of the peg­board pieces (could also be done in the store). Then, using your saw & mitre box, cut the ends of the mould­ing at an angle (so the cor­ners will fit together to form a frame).

3. Using wood glue, attach the mould­ing pieces to the peg­board to cre­ate a frame. 4. Attach small wood pieces to the back of the peg­board (we did 4 small pieces–one in each cor­ner), so that the peg­board sticks out just slightly from the wall (allow­ing you to put in peg­board hooks & accessories).

5. To attach to the wall, we decided to put in dry wall anchors first (just in case the board got too heavy). Then, we placed one screw in the upper cor­ners of the peg­board. For ease, the screws each went through one peg­board hole & then through the wood piece attached on the back into the wall.

6. Then, add the peg­board acces­sories of your choice. There is quite a vari­ety of hooks, tool hold­ers, bas­kets, etc.!

In addi­tion to the framed peg­board units, we also cre­ated a rib­bon holder. This was crazy easy! All you need is a dowel and those closet bar cups (I’m sure they have a tech­ni­cal name, but I don’t know what it is). We got a 1/2″ dowel, cut it to the size we needed, and spray painted it the same color as the peg­boards. Then, we installed the “closet bar cups”, laced the rib­bon on the dowel, and rested the dowel inside the cups. Easy peasy!!

I LOVE easy DIY projects–especially when they help make a space more func­tional! You can see the whole room reveal here:

• Office/Craft Room Makeover Reveal

For more great ideas, check out Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas on FB, Lowe’s on Pin­ter­est, and the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas blog where you just may rec­og­nize one (or more) of the faces there!

Dis­clo­sure:  I am a mem­ber of the Lowe’s Cre­ative Ideas Cre­ators & Influ­encers Net­work and received a Lowe’s gift card to com­plete my projects. All pho­tos, opin­ions, and expe­ri­ences are my own.

Linked to:  *Spring Clean­ing Challenge