31 DIY Hacks For Using Tension Rods In The Home

Looking for some easy ways to decorate and update your home? If you have not tried making things with tension rods, you have to see these cool and easy DIY ideas. Crafty and practical, too! From adding extra space in a cabinet or drawer to helping organize some items in unexpected places, tension rods work well when nothing else may. Just looking at these ideas is inspiring to start getting more organized at home. How much fun to be able to use something so simple to solve storage issues.

DIY Tension Rod Hacks

1. Window Herb Garden Ikea Hack With Tension Rods

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Window Herb Garden Ikea Hack With Tension Rods, a tension rod hack, straightforward enough to knock out in a day

IKEA Hack idea here. Use a tension rod and some S hooks to create a window herb garden in any window frame. For this hack, you won’t even need a drill. Get the full how-to from Jillm.

4. Small Bathroom Jewelry Storage With Tension Rods

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Small Bathroom Jewelry Storage With Tension Rods, simple enough for a first try and an idea worth saving for later

Keep those tension rods for good use not just in the kitchen but also to organize your jewelry. All you have to do is to install them with the S hooks and you can hang your favorite necklaces and bracelets from the top rod.

6. Resolve Your Shoe Problem

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Resolve Your Shoe Problem, simple to scale to fit almost any space and a small upgrade with a real visual payoff

If you’re having a bit of a shoe-problem, that is how to store them in an apartment with very little closet space, you need to check out this simple tension rod solution from A Loyal Love. The whole piece took about 30 minutes to install. Impressive, right?

7. Store Baby Clothes Using Tension Rods

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Store Baby Clothes Using Tension Rods, a tension rod hack, simple enough for a first try and an idea worth saving for later

This is another great tip from Apartment Therapy. Organizing baby clothes by using tension rods is such a simple and clever idea to organize your little one’s wardrobe.

8. Ribbon Organizer

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Ribbon Organizer, simple to scale to fit almost any space and a great fix using stuff you already have on a shelf

This is such a creative and ingenious idea to use tension rods in storing ribbons. I am totally organizing my ribbons this weekend. I ran across a couple of tension rods in the garage a few weeks ago. Who knew they would end up in my craft room.

9. Cheap Bath Toys Organizer

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Transform bathroom organization with a few cheap plastic bins from the Dollar Tree and a shower curtain rod. Ain’t it a genius idea? To top it off, this entire project literally took me less than five minutes so head on over to Cleverly Simple to learn the full details.