2 Ways to Create a Gift-Wrapping Station
Use pegboard or jazz up a utility cart to keep your wrapping paper, bows and ribbons organized now and year-round
Wrapping gifts can be one of the most enjoyable parts of the holiday season if you’re organized. If you’re not, it can get frustrating fast. Follow along as we share two creative ways (one stationary and one portable) to set up a wrapping station that will keep your materials handy and mess-free.
Begin inserting assorted pegboard hooks and accessories into the board. They can be found at your local home improvement store.
To hang spools of ribbon, I inserted two single straight peg hooks sideways, and then stuck the spool in between. For the gift wrap, I rested the rolls on multi-prong tool hooks.
The bows fit nicely in a wire basket.
For things like pens that do not lend themselves to pegboards, you can loop a piece of string around the top and then hang it on a hook. You can also put smaller items such as gift tags in a plastic bag and poke a hole for hanging.
The pegboard wrapping station creates a handy home base for your wrapping materials this holiday season and year-round if you have the space to keep it there.
2. Rolling Gift-Wrap Station
This station uses two items from Ikea — the Raskog utility cart and the Variera plastic bag dispenser, only we won’t be putting bags in ours.
This station uses two items from Ikea — the Raskog utility cart and the Variera plastic bag dispenser, only we won’t be putting bags in ours.
The Variera plastic bag holder will be used to hold tubes of gift wrap. It can be attached easily to the side of the cart by threading a piece of string through the two holes at the top and around the side of the cart, as shown here. Repeat the process for the holes at the bottom of the cart.
The bag dispenser can hold five to eight rolls of gift wrap, depending on their size.
Fill the top tier of the cart with frequently used items like tape, scissors, pens, twine and gift bags.
The next tier can be filled with ribbons and bows, and the bottom is perfect for tissue, scrap wrapping paper or additional gift bags.
The cart is ideal for those who prefer a mobile setup; it can be stored in a closet and then rolled out to the table when it’s time to wrap presents during the holidays or for birthdays anytime.
Show us: Do you have a gift-wrapping station at home? Share a photo in the Comments below.
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This wrapping station makes the most of vertical space, great for those living in smaller spaces.
Pegboards usually come with a white finish, but you can paint yours to dress it up a bit. I put painter’s tape in a random pattern across mine and then painted the different sections with acrylic craft paint in varying hues of blue.
You can lean the pegboard against a wall at the edge of a table as I have done here, but use a piece of duct tape to attach the back of the pegboard to the table edge so it will stay put. For a more permanent solution, use pegboard mounting hardware, which comes with a pegboard kit, or you can purchase separately at a hardware store. Do not screw the board to the wall without the specific hardware, however, because then you will not have the required distance from the wall to insert the pegboard accessories.