If you're like me and buy a lot of shoes, you know how bulky and unsightly a shoebox can be.
But, a little easy tinkering could fix it all!
With this trick, you will know how to transform an ugly useless shoebox into a nice document holder to store all your sheets, your notebooks or your files.
- 1 shoe box
- scissors
- glue (stick glue will not necessarily work as well as a real glue to be applied with a brush, but you can always try! Personally, I used wood glue... it worked very well ).
- Scotch tape
- quite a large quantity of paper (gift, Japanese... as long as you find it pretty, it works).
- 1 pencil and 1 ruler
1. Take the length measurement of your shoebox and mark the center location.
2. Then, starting from the edges, make two marks equidistant from each edge, depending on the size you want for both trays of your briefcase.
For example, for a 10 cm tray, draw a line 10 cm from each edge. Then, draw a line from these points to the center you marked, so as to form a triangle , which you just have to cut out.
Repeat the same operation on the other side, to obtain this:
3. Fold your box in half, the fold being at the tip of your triangles, then tape the bottom so that the assembly does not move. We'll call the two sides we've created here "bins".
4. Take the lid of your shoebox, and place it so that it "closes" one of the two bins at a 90° angle, like this (except your box doesn't look like this anymore):
Cut this lid to the right dimensions to be able to close one bin, then the other (keep the edges of the lid, which will strengthen your bins!). Once cut to size, tape the cover piece to the rest of the box.
You now have a briefcase with two closed compartments/trays (see photo of the covered briefcase)!
5. To improve it, simply cover it with paper:newspaper, wrapping paper, Japanese paper... whatever you like!
To do this, cut your paper as you go. To get the right dimensions, the easiest way is to put the box on the paper and draw around it.
Here is an example of covering on a simple box:
For this simple box, just cut the paper including the height (sides A, B, C, D) of the box, plus 1 or 2 cm for the flaps.
Then apply the glue to the back of the paper and place the box in the center.
Before gluing sides A, B, C and D, cut along the dotted lines indicated (image 2 and 3) in order to be able to fold down your 2 cm surplus without damaging the paper.
There you go, no need to buy filing cabinets and other unsightly and far too expensive storage, you can create unique and pretty things yourself!
And to store all the shoes you've had in those little boxes, here's another easy DIY trick!
