Artist Brush Holder for IKEA Skadis — Dual Bins

Two-compartment paintbrush holder for the IKEA Skadis pegboard

Tall enough for full-length artist brushes, split into two bins so you can sort by size, by stage of work, or by clean-vs-dirty. Hangs directly on the Skadis — no extra hardware.

The Story

Built this for my wife. She's an artist who works in watercolor and acrylics — the same brushes that miniature painters use — and stores her supplies on a Skadis board behind her desk. We couldn't find a clean dual-compartment bin tall enough for her longer brushes, so we generated one using a parametric Skadis system and tuned the print profile for surface quality.

Features

• Two compartments — sort by brush size, paint type, clean/dirty, or wet/dry
• ~140mm tall — fits full-length artist and miniature brushes vertically
• Slim ~50/80mm footprint — doesn't crowd adjacent Skadis hooks
• Hangs directly on standard IKEA Skadis pegboard — no extra hardware, no screws
• Tuned for surface finish — profiles deliberately slow to keep the tall flat walls clean

Print Settings

• Recommended filament: PolyTerra Matte White PLA (PETG profile also included)
• Layer height: 0.16mm
• Infill: irrelevant — geometry is essentially all walls
• Supports: Required. The Skadis hook overhangs on the back will not print cleanly without them. Pre-configured in both profiles.
• Brim: Required. At ~140mm tall on a ~50mm footprint, it tips during printing without a brim. Pre-configured in both profiles.
• Orientation: as loaded in the 3MF
• Speed: reduced from default — tall flat walls show "tiger stripes" from uneven cooling at higher speeds. The profiles trade print time for surface quality.

Tips & Notes

• Don't disable the brim or supports. Both are pre-configured for a reason. Removing them gets you a tipped print or messy hook overhangs.
• Don't speed up the profile. The slowdown is what keeps the walls smooth. Faster = tiger stripes. There's no free lunch with FDM.
• Works for anything tall and thin: artist brushes, fine-liner pens, mechanical pencils, sculpting tools.
• The two-bin split is more useful than it looks — sorting brushes by size or by current project saves real time at the bench.

Boost = ~80g of matte white filament :)

Changelog

• v1.0 (May 2026): Initial release — dual-compartment Skadis bin, PLA + PETG profiles tuned for surface quality