Saturday, March 25, 2017

Upcycled Mandarin Box

Hello everyone!

Today I have a quick post just to show you how I upcycled a mandarin box. 

I'm a kind of person who always has problems with throwing things away... 
This time I decided to try to give a new life to this mandarin box – to turn it into a storage box for my craft supplies.


Here are the photos before and after:







If you are interested how I did it:
  • I wanted to give an antique look to this box. So, I painted it firstly in brown color.
  • When it dried, I did a second layer – in turquoise, and left it to dry for a night.
  • Then I distressed a top layer with a sand block and for more contrast I added with my brash a light touch of the same brown paint that I used underneath.
  • Of course, I strengthened a bottom of the box with a chipboard and an appropriate pattern paper.
  •  And a piece of furniture.
  It was fun! And now I have an additional storage box that looks perfect on my bookshelf.


See you later,

Anna

5 comments:

  1. What a great idea. I always hated throwing the empty boxes away.

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    1. Thank you Susan. I'm feeling the same - it' always hard to throw! :)) all you need is time and creativity!

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  2. I love it! It has a great worn, vintage look - fantastic box:)

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  3. Sehr schön.... Habe 20 Kistchen im Keller, die sich freuen, wieder ans Helle zu kommen... Danke!

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