{"id":8776,"date":"2015-09-10T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2015-09-10T11:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T18:49:26","slug":"how-to-cover-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/how-to-cover-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Cover Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GridThe bulk of my focus lately has been on seriously<\/em>\u00a0editing my home, meaning\u00a0getting rid of things that no longer spark joy and changing things up the way I’ve been saying for “forever” that I’d do. \u00a0I’ve kept\u00a0around most of my decor DIYs, and sure, I came\u00a0to terms with how some just aren’t exciting me anymore. \u00a0It’s what’s making me look back at past projects a lot lately, thinking about what I still like about them, what I don’t, or how I’d do them differently now. \u00a0Like these fabric lid boxes I made a while back…<\/p>\n

\"FabricI still think they’re really cute, but\u00a0I’m craving change for more minimal designs (you’ve noticed this I think!), so I did something about that. \u00a0We’re re-covering boxes today, guys.<\/p>\n

Materials:
\n<\/strong><\/span>–fabric<\/a>\u00a0(or wallpaper!<\/a>)
\n–Mod Podge<\/a>
\n–foam brush<\/a>
\n-scissors
\n-pencil
\n-ruler<\/p>\n

So about why I suggested fabric or wallpaper, but actually used gift wrap… Audrey from This Little Street<\/a> sent me samples from her new pattern line<\/a>, and I picked the grid (viva la grid). \u00a0My initial plan was to use the wallpaper to cover these boxes, but the one I got was the larger scale grid pattern and I preferred the smaller scale grid pattern of the gift wrap that Audrey so generously sent as well. \u00a0So I used the gift wrap, which would be so amazingly gorgeous for gift wrapping right?? \u00a0But for this project, it’s not ideal in terms of longevity, which is why I recommend the fabric or wallpaper option. \u00a0Fabric can follow these exact steps, and wallpaper would be easiest because you’d just peel and stick after all the cutting!<\/p>\n

That was long, did you get through it?<\/p>\n

\"measurements\"<\/p>\n

The grey lines are where I made my pencil marks with a ruler. \u00a0I started by drawing an outline around the box at a distance of about twice the height (a bit less is ok too) of the side of the box (box was about 2.5\u00a0inches high, so I measured 4\u00a0inches out from each side). \u00a0Next I drew diagonal lines from each corner of the box to each corner of the outside rectangle. \u00a0The horizontal lines were drawn straight across from each corner, but the vertical lines were drawn further out from the edge of the box- these are going to create tabs.<\/p>\n

\"cut\"I cut along all the pencil lines which removes these two triangular pieces, one slightly larger than the other.<\/p>\n

\"cut2\"Lifting up one\u00a0side of paper with tabs, I made\u00a0a vertical cut and horizontal cut that lines up with the edge and height of the box. This cuts out a rectangular piece as shown in the photo above.<\/p>\n

\"glue\"I applied Mod Podge on the inner edge of the box and folded the side of the paper with the tabs over the edge as tightly as possible, then repeated on the opposite side.<\/p>\n

\"fold\"I glued down the tabs over each corner, then folded over each remaining side of paper up and over the edge of the box, using Mod Podge to secure it down on the inner side\u00a0of the box like before.<\/p>\n

Repeated everything for the lids and done.<\/p>\n

\"Grid<\/p>\n

\"DIY
\n\"DIYOne of the boxes holds my Washi tape (not quite all of them… because they don’t all fit…..) and the other holds small bottles of acrylic paint. \u00a0I go in and out of these boxes a lottttt so we’ll see how they hold\u00a0up. \u00a0The fabric I had on the lids before peeled off really nicely when I removed them for this re-do, which makes me feel good about the potential of changing up these boxes later. \u00a0For now I’m still obsessed with the grid, black and white, all that good stuff, you already know.<\/p>\n

This is also definitely the start of changes I want to make to my work space! \u00a0These boxes pretty much sum up the style inspiration I’m keeping in mind for that. \u00a0Thinking a lot more about practical organization and lightening up the little corner. \u00a0To be continued at a slow pace, ha.<\/p>\n

*ALSO* A huge huge huge THANK YOU to everyone who filled out the reader survey so far! \u00a0You guys are bringin it <3. \u00a0If you happened to miss that post, you can still fill out the survey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bulk of my focus lately has been on seriously\u00a0editing my home, meaning\u00a0getting rid of things that no longer spark joy and changing things up the way I’ve been saying for “forever” that I’d do. \u00a0I’ve kept\u00a0around most of my decor DIYs, and sure, I came\u00a0to terms with how some just aren’t exciting me anymore. … Continue reading “How to Cover Boxes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8779,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","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=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8812,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions\/8812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homeyohmy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}