Spice Rack

• Small bottles of acrylic paint available at craft stores are just the right size to fit into a spice rack for storage. Organize your paints by color on a wall-mounted rack and you will be able to choose just the right shade when you need it. Slip an empty toilet paper roll into one of the top slots in the rack and put paintbrushes in it so that all of your tools can be at your fingertips.
  
  

Small Shelf

• A small wooden, wicker or metal wall-mounted shelf unit, often sold for bathroom storage, makes an excellent paint holder. Just put the paint bottles on the shelves with their bottoms facing out. This way, you can see the color of the paint and not just the plastic bottle tops. This is a free-form storage solution that is pretty enough to become an art form all its own.
  
  

Upside Down in a Box

• A functional plastic shoe box or maybe an old wooden soda crate are well designed for paint bottle storage. If you're choosing a box with a lid, it needs to be deep enough for the bottles to stand upright with the lid on. Once you have your container, put the bottles in upside down. This way, you will have a good view of the color of the paint through the opaque bottom of the bottle. A container that is divided into sections, like a soda crate, work for storing paint tubes standing up.
  
  

Plastic Shoe Holder

• If you have an available door in your craft room, buy a clear, plastic hanging shoe holder to hang on the back of it. Each pocket can easily hold a few bottles of paint. The clear fronts keep paint colors visible while the open pocket tops make it easy to access just the right shade. Keep a pocket open for other tools, such as paintbrushes and a few pencils.