Introduction: Diy Repurposed Refrigerator for Tool Storage

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About: Hi there my name is Alan Hatch I am a DIYer, an artist and love making decorations for my yard for the holidays, My instructables site allows me to show you how to do it in the hopes that you will explore your…

So as you can tell through my previous instructable posts I find reuses for almost everything. For this one I decided that my old fridge was the next culprit in my master creation plan. I don't have much space where I live and being a creator I own a bunch of tools of which I have no real place to store. So on a whim, I decided that I'd really like to use the fridge for another purpose. To store all the tools which would otherwise be lying around the studio apartment until I used them again. It made my house look disorganized with the tools just lying around so I set out to get a little more organized and hopefully a place to hide all those tools I had lying around. Since the fridge already had shelving I figured I would incorporate those into the Master plan. Tell me what you think in the comments below, I'd love to hear your ideas!

UPDATE: Just so you know no I do not keep this in my house and yes I have labeled the plastic bins. The location of the fridge tool box is in my carport with a lock on it. Thanks for all the good comments

Step 1: Materials Needed

  1. 1-old refrigerator

Step 2: Hardware Needed

  1. Storage containers to fit large medium small various sizes and types

Step 3: Putting It Together

  1. Really you can just start with the freezer section and move down from there. I decided that the freezer section would be the place to house all my odd and ends. tools that had no place real to go or that I didn't have a place for. So I set in 3 or four relatively small storage containers that I could slide in and out and grab what I needed on a whim.
  2. since everything is stored in containers there was really no big hack for this exercise project I just bought some cheap containers that were heavy duty enough to store my stuff
  3. as you can see they stored quite nicely
  4. I will be marking the containers with a marker to describe what may be in them
  5. I may add a place to store extension cords as well.

Step 4: Oraganized!

It was an easy project to get organized and probably one that not a lot od people will think of and if your like me and have a bunch of tools you need a place for without anywhere to put them like in a shop or something you can use an old refrigerator as a somewhat last resort.