Stylish Storage

Super Simple Stylish Storage Solution...

hee hee say that 10 times super fast... While adding some storage/closet/organization system to my entry way, all the colors started to wash out. Eh and that is so not my style. I picked up these photo boxes from Joanns, that I'm not going to use for photos...does anyone out there actually use them for photos? hmmm? I want them to be catch alls for crayons, other art supplies, Wii remotes and such...and the tan color they were here....


not cuttin it. My thoughts were to cover them with scrapbook paper? too time consuming. Cover them with fabric? will probably get dirty from all the little fingers runnin around (how would I wash em?) . Paint them! yep, thats what I did...so to get the texture of fabric. First I taped off the little maetal thingy the label goes in, and started with the paint, when I was painting them with a white primer so the color of paint I chose would actually show up, I used a brush with really coarse bristles, so the lines would show, therefor making a pattern like linen...ehhh...cool huh Back to the primer...you don't want to saturate the boxes, rememeber they are made out of cardboard, and will bubble up and all sorts of things when they get too wet. Here they are all primed...


Then I took some spray paint to them...it took about 2 coats for each box, to have the color I was aiming for. And here is how they turned out...


Then I just simply picked a cute font, and printed out some labels...and tada! A
Super Simple Stylish Storage Solution...ah ha ha love it!