Kleenex Box Repurpose

Mary Ann Goldberg
by Mary Ann Goldberg
2 Materials
2 Hours
Easy
The challenge this week was to repurpose a Kleenex box. I am on a kick to organize my home and not spend any money doing it so this challenge was timely.
I used the smaller version Kleenex box to do this challenge. It was the perfect size for holding my scent bottles that were helping to clutter up a shelf in the kitchen cupboard.


Step 1 was to cut off the top of the box.


Step 2 was to shorten the front panel to make the objects more visible. Unfortunately, I didn't take a photo of this step, but what I did was to measure down two inches on each side of the front panel. I connected the dots with a line and cut across the front. To make the sides slanted up to the back panel I used a ruler to draw a line from the front corners to the back corners and then cut along these lines.
Step 3 was to make the box look pretty. I selected a beachy theme since I already had decor for this.


I measured the paper for the inside of the box by laying the box on the paper, rotating it over, and tracing and cutting this to get the rough size needed. Since this was using the outside measurement but I was putting the paper on the inside, I then measured the exact space, cut the paper down and used Mod Podge to fasten it. The front panel and top of the back panel were covered with masking tape. This was easy to cut - just tape the area and cut with an X-acto knife. The outer sides were covered with paper that looked like burlap. To do this I traced the sides of the box on the paper, cut to fit and fastened with Mod Podge.
Oops time! It was at this point that I actually put one of the bottles in the box and found out I didn't cut down far enough on the front panel to be able to see what the bottle was. I measured down 1" on each front corner, connected the dots across the front and cut the panel down. The photo above was taken after I had cut the panel but I set it back on to show the problem. The next photo shows how much more visible the bottle is now.
The final step was to glue on sea shells with E6000, after which the box was filled with the other bottles.



Mission Accomplished - great storage and no cost.
Suggested materials:
  • Kleenex box, decorator paper, duck tape, Mod Podge, sea shells   (Already had)
  • Pencil, ruler, E6000 glue, scissors   (Already had)
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