Repurposed Crate Box

Katie here! It's been over a year since one of us posted any projects...life gets really busy, so sorry about that.

There are many pluses to working at Hobby Lobby; one being that we have a clearance section once a year that some items get discounted to a ridiculously low price, and then getting my employee discount on top of that. So therefore, I bought this ugly crate because it had great bones (Sorry the quality isn't that great). I believe I spent about $5.00 on it, not including the materials I used to fix it up.

 I decided that the blue was too much and that I wanted to add a little bit of the color from the piece of paper that I bought to cover the design on the back, so I painted the corners white. This was really tedious... I had to use a tiny paint brush because the lines needed to be straight, and I didn't want it to look sloppy. See?! look at those beautiful bones! The white really made it pop, in my opinion.

 Next, I initially was going to try to mod podge the paper into the inside, and decided that the paper I chose wasn't going to work with mod podge really well because it was very thin; almost like wrapper paper. So I used Elmer's tacky spray, and it worked amazingly!

 And she's done! I decided to hang it up in the bathroom that my sister and I share, to put toilet paper in to. It works wonderfully and adds some creativity into our bathroom!