I’ve so many gadgets and tools in my home office, however, I don’t have enough space to store them all, I really need a place to put some frequently use tools by the window that next to my working desk, but I can’t find any perfect size ready-made products in any store. Therefore, DIY time!

In Hong Kong we are lack of hand craft stores that can buy all kind of art supplies, due to local people are lazy and lack of act educations; luckily we have AEON Living Plaza, which is originally from Japan, there have some wood trays, wood boards and others household stuff, and the best thing is most of the items are only costed HK$12 (about USD1.5), low price with decent quality.

Glueing two trays together.

Remove some supporting columns for the dishes rack.

Paint it in black.

Remove the unnecessary paints on wooden trays by handheld sanding machine.

Dye all wooden parts with BRIWAX Teak color.

All parts painted and dyed, let it dry.

Finished! Spent 2.5 hours on it!

Now I can put two times more of gadgets and tools by the window.

You can never buy shelves that fit your space, DIY is the only way to fulfil your own satisfactions.