Paperlady, that's awful that they were stolen! And thanks for the advice- shortly after I took this picture I hung a tablecloth from the back of the racks that covers the paper when I'm not using it. No fading here! :)
You may wish to cover each paper stack with leftover cardboard or similar as daylight and overhead lights will fade the top sheet and most of the edges. I keep my 8&1/2" in manila file folders, but you'll have to use something else for 12x12. I had three of this kind of paper racks, too, and before I got them into the house, they were stolen from our garage, probably for the metal value. Grrr.
Amazing find! Congrats. My daughter has the same racks and we went to an office supply store and found clip-on tags (they go on the little paper stop part so aren't in the way). It's really handy since she has so much paper - she can immediately see where her "travel" paper is, her "animal" paper, etc. You might think of looking into that sometime. I don't recall them being very expensive.
FANTASTIC!!! Hubby just bought the pedestals for our frontloading washer & dryers from Craigslist!! Now I need to look at Craigs' list for these!! Great find!! Lucky you!
I found these paper racks on Craigslist. I only bought two at first, but after bringing them home and filling them I decided I needed all four... OMG I have so much paper - I guess I just didn't realize how much it all is until I saw it like this. But now it's so much easier to find and see, maybe I'll make more!
On the right are all my solids, sorted by color then texture (two or three shelves for each color, one smooth papers and one or two for textured). Next to that is my patterned paper and 8.5x11 solids, sorted by color. The left two towers are stacks and themes/kits.
In the basket on the right are my 8x8 and 6x6 stacks, and the basket below on the right is scraps...
I used to have my solid papers in a large file cart, which was really great - but unfortunately my cats loved it too. I had to store it under the table to keep them off of it (and bending the paper edges with their feet), and the wheels just didn't work very well on the carpet given how heavy the paper made the cart. It was a real pain to get to anything...hopefully the kitties find my paper towers less appealing. *crossing fingers*
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