{"id":6027,"date":"2015-01-05T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2015-01-05T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T00:51:21","slug":"cover-boxes-contact-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/cover-boxes-contact-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cover Boxes with Contact Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HowI believe in two things: 1) beautiful storage\u00a0is exciting\u00a0and 2) a\u00a0good, sturdy box should never be tossed.\u00a0 I was reminded of this after receiving a couple gifts this past Christmas that came in some nice boxes, and\u00a0I was almost more excited about how I was going to re-use the boxes for storage. \u00a0Call it weird, because it kind of is, but it’s also fun (and useful!), and maybe you kept some boxes from this past holiday season too and need a simple idea on how to make them prettier. \u00a0Try this one out!<\/p>\n

\"WhiteI already liked that the boxes were all white, but I had this marble contact paper<\/a> hanging around for a while and it was shouting at me to use it already, so I did.<\/p>\n

\"pencil\"Trace the lid of the box on the contact paper, then measure around the box about twice the height of the side of the lid.<\/p>\n

\"ContactSo for example, the height of my box lid is 3cm, so I measured and cut the contact paper about 6cm further out from the lid on each side, as shown in the photo above. \u00a0Since the lid is shallow, twice the height was appropriate, but for something deeper, like the bottom of my box, I measured out the height of the box + 6cm. \u00a0Twice the height of the box would’ve been unnecessarily long, so keep that in mind for\u00a0your box.<\/p>\n

\"pencilUse\u00a0a pencil to draw three lines at each corner of the contact paper as shown above- a diagonal line, a horizontal line, and a vertical line. \u00a0This creates\u00a0a tab to wrap around the corner of the lid, which I’ll show you in a little bit.<\/p>\n

\"cut\"Once cut along the lines, each corner should look like this.<\/p>\n

\"ContactMake sure that the opposite ends of\u00a0the contact paper are mirror images of each other, meaning that the tabs are on opposite ends of the paper, as shown above.<\/p>\n

\"StepsThe fun part. \u00a0Peel the backing off the paper and lay it face down. \u00a0Press the top of the lid onto the center of the adhesive, making sure the corners of the lid line up with the inner corners of the paper. \u00a0Fold the sides of adhesive with the tabs straight up and smooth it over to stick firmly onto the side of the lid, then fold the tabs over each corner. \u00a0Next, fold the other sides up, which will effectively cover the tabs and give you nice, clean corners.<\/p>\n

\"CornerTo fold the the adhesive over the edges (that extra 6cm I measured out), cut a slit down each corner, then fold each side over.<\/p>\n

\"BoxLid complete. \u00a0Repeat with the bottom of the box and the transformation is done.<\/p>\n

\"DIY<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

This could absolutely be done with fabric and Mod Podge as well, which I did a long time ago\u00a0with the lids on these boxes<\/a>. \u00a0The design options are a lot more diverse with fabric, but contact paper is definitely less messy. \u00a0Have you crafted with this stuff before? \u00a0Are you as obsessed with boxes as I am?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I believe in two things: 1) beautiful storage\u00a0is exciting\u00a0and 2) a\u00a0good, sturdy box should never be tossed.\u00a0 I was reminded of this after receiving a couple gifts this past Christmas that came in some nice boxes, and\u00a0I was almost more excited about how I was going to re-use the boxes for storage. \u00a0Call it weird, … Continue reading “How to Cover Boxes with Contact Paper”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,327,220,183,328,329,101],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-box","tag-contact-paper","tag-marble","tag-organize","tag-repurpose","tag-reuse","tag-storage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6073,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}