Craft Room Organization

My close friends and family know me well enough to always call me before they throw stuff away, and that's how I was able to build this unit for my craft room! My mother- and father-in-law were redoing their laundry room and didn't need these two cabinets anymore. Rather then sending them to the dump, they asked if I wanted them. Of course I said yes! I didn't know what they'd be useful for yet, but it was too good of an offer to let them go. They hung out in the basement for a while, until I decided to (once again) overhaul the craft room, and I assembled this tall tower of organization!

From the top down:

• Cabinet from MIL - Stores yarn and all crochet and knitting paraphernalia. I intentionally right justified the top cabinet so I would have a place to store my iron.
• Two-tiered shelf I've had since I was a little girl - Top shelf holds my fabric; on the bottom shelf I attached a piece of plywood that's been wrapped in batting and canvas to use as an ironing board. (I also made a little sleeve board, which you can see at the back of this shelf.)
• Second cabinet from MIL - Stores all patterns, books, extra thread, ironing ham, and anything else that needs stashing away.
• Bottom shelf - I enlisted my dad to help me make this bottom shelf. We used his table saw to cut the plywood down to the sizes I needed and then built this incredibly sturdy base for the unit. It stores the laundry baskets and organizing kit I use for Katie the Organizing Lady jobs. (I had to shim the whole unit up a bit in the front so it wouldn't fall forward. Our house is a bit crooked and the sub floor under this carpet is a bit wonky.)

I painted the whole thing white and used champagne corks for door knobs, just like on the hutch I made a few years ago.