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DIY Desk Organizer: 20+ Project Ideas

Clear the clutter with one of these desk organizer ideas! Make an easy DIY desk organizer for your home office, playroom, kids’ homeschool station, or craft room.

Bonus: Scroll down to the bottom of the post to get a video of how to make several different types of organizers for your desk and office space. You’re going to love them!

Over 20 DIY Desk Organizer Projects

When it comes to organizing, it’s easy for me to maintain systems that are already in place. Meaning, if someone sets up a organization system for me, I can keep it going. It’s just hard for me to come up with something!

I need a DIY desk organizer, so I am depending on the brilliant creatives of the interwebs for ideas . . . and I found over 20 that I really like. Now I just have to figure out which one(s) to make!

You can use one in a home office as a desktop organizer, a craft room as a colored pencil organizer, or even in a kids’ homeschool area. There are a lot of super easy options in this post.

These projects range from recycled materials to building from scratch to taking an existing item and repurposing. You’ll see there are many, many ways to organize your desk space on a budget. Take a peek at the projects and let me know which one is your favorite in the comments.

Desk Organizer Ideas

If you are in the market for a clean and tidy desk, check out these 20+ DIY organizer ideas that look good and are budget friendly.


I hope you enjoyed these DIY desk organizer ideas! Here is the video I promised – learn how to make several organizers. Just press “PLAY” in the center of the video in this post.

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Denuli Gomis

Tuesday 10th of January 2023

Very neatly prepared with clear pictures....really appreciate all the work!