With the popularity of online shopping, there are often a lot of cardboard packaging boxes. Throwing them away is a waste of resources. If you keep them at home and don’t have time to sell the scraps, we can actually use these scraps to transform them into practical storage boxes, even multi-layer ones. Storage rack, today we are using A4 paper boxes that are common in the office to make storage racks. Dear friends, follow the tutorial below to try it, and spend some time to make your home tidier!
Tutorial on making storage racks from cardboard packaging boxes
1. First prepare the materials: A4 carton cover, long strip of cardboard, floral cloth, glue stick, scissors, ruler, dovetail clip, and bead needle.
2. Cut the floral fabric according to the size of the prepared carton.
3. Wrap one of the cartons with floral fabric, secure it with a dovetail clip, and tidy up the inner corners.
4. Use glue to fix the fabric.
5. This is how the outer package looks after being fixed.
6. This is what the inside of the carton looks like after the hemming is pasted on it.
7. Attach the cut bottom floral fabric to the bottom of the storage box, hide the edge of the nest and fix it with beads.
8. When sewing the bottom side, be sure to tidy up the fabric so that it looks comfortable when used.
9. Paste the floral fabric on the inside bottom of the storage box in the same way. diyju.com
10. Next we will make four pillars. Fold the prepared long cardboard at 90 degrees and wrap it with floral cloth to fix it. You must use very hard cardboard here, but you can also use other cardboard. Substitute materials.
11. Repeat the above method to make three storage boxes and four pillars of the same length.
12. Drill holes and assemble the storage box and pillars as shown in the picture.
13. The simple three-layer storage rack made of cardboard is completed. If there is excess fabric, you can make a small cloth pocket and hang it on the side to put down small tools, and it can also beautify the storage rack.
Extended reading:
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4. Illustration of the tutorial on transforming two old cardboard boxes into a double-layer simple shoe rack
5. Illustrated tutorial on making exquisite artificial flower ornaments from waste paper boxes and egg trays
