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After shopping, not only pleasant emotions remain, but also cardboard boxes from under shoes and other accessories. Many of them do not have an attractive design, but you can fix this even without being a professional decorator. Indeed, in ordinary cardboard boxes they can decorate the interior, and become convenient storage systems for which it is convenient. We have collected ideas after which you definitely won’t want to throw them away.
Small lockable boxes are a godsend for owners of small spaces where the issue of storage systems is acute. They are compact and easy to use, they can be hidden under the bed, put on a closet , put away in a niche or mezzanine. Their advantage is in small dimensions and spaciousness.
Here is a small list of what can be stored in cardboard boxes:
- Kids toys. Especially, designers and puzzles with small details.
- Cosmetics, jewelry, hair accessories . This idea will be rightly appreciated by girls who love to take care of themselves.
- Charging from phones, tablets, laptops. Often these items do not have a specific place, and so they will always be in one place, which will reduce the time to find the right charge.
- Towels, baby clothes, diapers. In the nursery of a newborn, such boxes are indispensable. They systematize the storage of personal hygiene items for the baby. True, it is better to sew a textile cover for such a box, which can be removed and washed.
- Art supplies. Creative people always have a lot of tools to implement their ideas. For artists, these are pencils, paints, sketches, brushes, paper, for lovers of sewing and knitting - scissors, threads, yarn, needles. You can keep all these items in order with the help of cardboard boxes.
How to make a decorative storage box, see here
Shoes. No matter how paradoxical it may sound, you can store ... shoes in shoe boxes! For example, in winter , put summer sandals and sandals there, and hide boots and shoes in the warm season.
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Not all boxes have an elegant design and are suitable for decorating the interior, but this is quite fixable. Anyone who has a little free time, patience and inspiration can make a cardboard box exclusive.
For this, the most common materials that can be found in everyone are suitable:
- Wallpaper and wrapping paper. There are remnants of wallpaper in every apartment where at least once there was a repair. When working with wallpaper, you need to stock up on double-sided tape and PVA glue.
- Textile. An unnecessary sweater, an old skirt, stretched pants - all these items of clothing will also come in handy when decorating boxes. And skillfully using them, you can turn unnecessary things into an exclusive work of decorating art.
- Burlap and jute. Not everyone has these materials, but they can be useful if you need to decorate a box in an ecological or Provencal style.
From cardboard, you can make unusual toys for children with your own hands, for example, a house , a doll, furniture, an airplane , a castle , a tank . How nice it is to sit in such a house with your favorite animals on a warm summer day: How wonderful it is to paint these apartments with your own hands: The house, which is decorated with unusual coloring pages, will appeal to all children:
Wonderful buildings for girls will turn an ordinary day into a fabulous journey: It will be very interesting to play hide and seek here: A castle for the king and queen: Little houses with furniture for dolls: Here you can read a colorful book: Or collect a pyramid: You can go to the roof of such a cute apartment attach a mobile to the crib : By the way, I think animals will also like this dacha:
How to make this cozy nest with your own hands? We prepared two large cardboard boxes: From one we make additional blanks: And we cut the second in this way: Now we assemble our home and glue it with adhesive tape: It remains only to cut windows and doors with a clerical knife:
the children want to play in it on a green lawn, then you definitely need to lay a solid foundation: Here is another wonderful option for creating such cardboard crafts : We assemble the roof for the toy in a different way: If you still have this material at hand, then you can cut and paint the rainbow : How nice it is to paint the roof and walls of this house! If you don’t have enough cardboard boxes to build a palace, then I think Cinderella’s carriage will look great on green grass: This is how simple and unusual you can create amazing houses for children, and what cardboard toys do you make with your own hands?