Cardboard Desk Organiser

If you spend a good five minutes every morning looking for your favorite pen and just need a simple, easy to make, cheap solution, this cardboard desk organizer is perfect for you. It only takes 20-30 minutes to complete and it holds a lot more the a singular pen. Scroll down to see a 6 step instructable on how to make this!

1. cardboard
2. exacto knife
3. cutting board
4. pencil

Take a cardboard piece and cut a 20cm vertical line, next make 22cm horizontal cut starting from the top of your first line. Next make a 16cm horizontal cut starting from the bottom of your vertical line. Now make diagonal line connecting the ends of both your horizontal lines. Repeat this 4 times. What you have now should look like the picture above. for your next step simply laminate your cardboard. You should be left with 2 pieces.

For your next step, measure out the rim of the table you're planning to clip your organizer on to. Once you have that, cut those dimensions out 1 centimeter bellow the top of your vertical line. What you are left with now should look like the first picture above. Now 1 centimeter above the bottom of your vertical line, cut out a 8 cm by 0.5 rectangle (should look like the second picture above). For your next step cut out a 10.7cm by 0.5cm rectangle diagonally starting 1 cm away from the corner of your diagonal line. This should look like 3rd picture above.

For this step you will cut out a 16cm by 10 cm rectangle. Now cut out a 8 cm by 0.5 cm rectangle inside of your first rectangle starting 1 cm away from the corner of your 16 cm line. Do this on both sides of your rectangle and make sure your rectangles are parallel to each other. Your product should look like the picture above.

For your 4th step make a 21.4cm by 10 cm rectangle. Now cut out a 9.7cm by 0.5cm rectangle inside of your first rectangle starting 1cm away from the corner of your 21.4cm line. Repeat this on the other side of your rectangle making both your rectangles parallel with each other (should look like picture above).

Now, to attach all the pieces together. Take the first two cardboard pieces you made and the first rectangle you made and slide the slots in together as shown in the first picture. Then take the second rectangle you made and slide the slots in together as shown in the second picture. What you should have now is a complete outside to your desk organizer.

now for the part that holds you utensils/supplies. Make a rectangle depending on the dimensions of the supplies your making it for, then slit each side of the rectangle enough for the cardboard to fold, now depending on the width/height of your supplies make rectangles starting at each slit. now fold you cardboard and glue its walls together, you final product should be a rectangle box (use first picture above to help understand). for your cylindrical supplies measure the circumference/dimensions of you supplies and then cut out a piece of peeled conjugated cardboard (according to your measurements) now glue both its ends together (use second picture to help understand). to attach these pieces to your organizer, simply just glue them on to the inside. congratulations, you've reached the end!