Saturday, June 27, 2015

DIY 3 Piece Wall Storage Made From a Snack Cake Box!

Hello, It's been a while since I've posted anything!

Recently, I made a really cool hanging storage piece out of a snack cake box and I'm going to post instructions on how I did it!

Things you'll need:


  • Snack Cake Box (For instance a little debbie box) 
  • Duct tape (I chose white) 
  • Scissors and/or Exacto Knife 
  • Jut Twine (or ribbon, whichever you would prefer) 


Step 1: First thing is to cut off the top flaps of the box. You know the little flaps of paper where you initially opened up the box. Keep those pieces. Then what you're going to have to do is to cut the box into three different sections. What I did was measure the length of the box and mark where to cut to make each section even. I then took my exacto knife and cut the box into the three sections. 

Step 2: Now to make sure each box has a bottom. One section will already have one; the piece cut at the bottom, so that one you don't have to worry about in this step. The other two will be open on both ends but we need to get those closed so you can put items in them. This is where the long flaps of cardboard you cut off from the opened end of the box will come in handy. You're going to take one of the flaps and attach it to one open end of the storage piece you are making. It's not a perfect match but I attached mine with the duct tape, once completely covered your bottom is finished. Repeat on the other storage piece with an open bottom. 

Step 3: Once you have three storage boxes that only have one open top, you're ready to decorate them. What I did with mine was cover them completely with duct tape. I chose white duct tape but you could always go with other colors or a patterned tape. You could also pain them or even paint over the duct tape. 

Step 4: After covering the boxes and making sure they are how you want them, the next step is to add some Jut Twine. You can be as creative as you want here, you just want to make sure that you're getting your hanging method firmly attached to the back of your boxes so they do not fall. I measured out a long piece of jut twine, really just eyeballed it, then double it to have two long pieces of twine. Put the twine together then fold them in half then tie them to create a loop at the center of the twine. This is a little hard to explain on how to do and I wish I would have taken pictures to show how, but as I said, you can be super creative and hang this however you want.



Once the twine is ready, then attach to the boxes. I first attached the first one then eyeballed where to put the next one, I ended up putting mine about 3 inches apart. 

Step 5: After making sure its secure to hang, hang it! I put a bunch of my pencils, paints, paintbrushes, etc in mine!



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