I don't have something super cool ready today; it's actually just a minor 'fix'. As a proper lady, I have a few – well, lots of – lipsticks. For a few years, I have been looking for a suitable organiser for my office. Nothing worked for me. At the same time, I wanted to have the lipsticks close at hand in case of a sudden work video call.

It occurred to me that I had a space in the drawer for office supplies that I fill with useless stuff and that I could use this space for lipsticks. It's the drawer unit Alex from IKEA again.

The setup is quite unconventional, I admit, with lipsticks next to scissors, staplers, and sticky notes, but it's an empty space right next to my work area, so why not?

I calculated that up to 32 lipsticks could fit in such a space, so I modelled a simple rectangular organiser that fits precisely into the free space in the drawer. The walls of the organiser are only 2 millimetres thick, and each lipstick has an area of 2.5 centimetres on both sides. The height of the walls is 37 millimetres.

It wasn't that simple, though. I noticed a screw in the drawer where I wanted to place the organiser. Because of this screw, the organiser would not fit against the drawer wall, which bothered me.

I calculated where the head of the screw would be and made a 5.5-millimetre-radius cut for it.

The print took more than half a day at 0.3 DRAFT quality, but it finished without any issues.

I printed the hole for the screw with the supports, which were harder to scratch off from the bottom of the printed body, but in the end, it worked.

I don't have 32 lipsticks; I have a little over half of that number, but I’ll be getting more soon. All my lipsticks fit into the size 25 x 25.

It's pretty weird to have lipsticks next to office supplies, but they've been there for about a year now, and I don't mind at all. These are just the things I need for work :)

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• Lipsticks organiser