Ideas for best way to fit fabric into new cabinets needed!
I'm working on moving my sewing room from a cramped bedroom upstairs into the much larger living room downstairs.
I've purchased a whole row of cabinets to line one wall and this is where I want to keep my fabric (among other things). Problem is the cabinets are fairly deep so I can't decide how best to store my fabric in them.
The cabinets (inner dimension) are about 14-1/2" deep by about 29" wide. Shelves are adjustable and I purchased extras so height of each shelf can be whatever I want it to be.
My original intention was to just fold the fabric and line them up like books (sort of like with the comic book boards, but no boards inside), but not sure that will work out so well. I have a lot of half-yard cuts and if I fold them to be 14" wide I think they'd be so thin they'd get lost. I could put all the smaller cuts in a separate area maybe, but I really want to put everything all together based on color, without all these separate groupings of fabric (like I have now that drives me crazy).
I don't want double rows on the shelves, I want everything as visible as possible.
Right now my fabric is stored in Rubbermaid drawers...the inner drawer parts are too long for my cabinets unless I turn them sideways...I could do that and use them as bins, but due to their length I could only fit one per shelf and that doesn't work for me. I could buy new bins that fit better (probably), but ugh....I don't really WANT bins if I can avoid it. And I've already spent a small fortune on this room so I'm really DONE spending money I don't need to spend.
Other ideas? I'm kind of at a loss. I don't even have the cabinets built yet (need to paint first) but I'd love to have a solution ready to go because as soon as that room is painted I am going to go NUTS moving my stuff in. I am super anxious to get this room done so I can play in it!