Cabinets and walls from floor to ceiling have long become ordinary residents of urban apartments, and even village houses. But in spite of the fact that they are supplied with a set of shelves, boxes and mezzanines, the problem of storage of things has not become less actual. But in the days of the nobility there were no such cases, and yet in the boudoir of the boyaryn, princesses, princesses and queens, there was an ideal coziness and order. Why? Yes, because the rooms were spacious, and clothes and other things were stored in chests, chests and boxes, which perfectly fit into the overall interior and served as its decoration. Do you also want, ladies and gentlemen, to plunge into the world of royalty without leaving your own home? If yes, then let's find out today how to do it, wrap it around the cloth and decorate the cardboard box for storing trinkets yourself.
What can I make decorative boxes for storing things?
But before we begin to bring our idea into execution, let's make a short historical digression and see what can make boxes for storing things.
As already mentioned above, lari, chests, caskets and bambana-eries were widely used, both among the nobility and in everyday life among ordinary people. They made them, basically, from a tree, for example an oak, from a birch bark or from a rod. Then covered with varnish from spoilage and woodworms, studded with copper or noble metals, adorned with carvings, paintings or precious stones.
What could our ancestors store in such boxes? Yes, anything, anything - outfits, jewelry, money, securities and even flour and grain.
The ladies in the boxes with double bottoms hid love letters from jealous husbands, the girls put dowry there, and matrons of old age - furniture to their own funeral.
We'll build a cardboard box, we'll wrap it with cloth and decorate it with the taste of our own imagination, to store there all sorts of cute little things given to us by a spouse, children or relatives.
How to make a box for storing small things?
Immediately agree that our box in size will be equal to the average shoe. Someone will say - and then why do these boxes for storing things at all, you can take shoe, and all the cases. So it is so, but after all the homemade, which absorbed the warmth of your hands and soul, is much more interesting. And what a gift you can make! None of this will not happen. So, we choose each of our shoe boxes and first come up with a basic background for it with the help of some one-tone fabric.
How to wrap the box with a cloth?
Decisions how to wrap a box for small things with a cloth, maybe a few. The simplest is to cut out the parts that fit the size, for each side separately and paste them with a special fabric glue.
Another option is to use a stapler and paper clips. An alternative to paper clips can be a conventional Velcro, one part of which is glued to the walls of the box, and the second we sew on the parts of matter.
Well, and the most difficult method is to sew the case to the size of the box and its cover. Which of the proposed methods is more convenient for you, choose this one. The main thing is that the fabric is pleasant to the eye and rather dense.
If the matter is thin, it will quickly become unusable, and the box will have to be thrown away. But you must agree, throwing away your work is always a great pity.
How to decorate a cardboard box?
Well, our box is already covered, and yet there is still something missing in it, there is no completeness and charm. Let's think about how and how to decorate it.
- In the form of a chest. This version of the scenery is best suited for monophonic finishing from rough fabric, burlap, derehuga or drape. On the lid and sides simulate bronze strips of red foil. And in the middle of the front edge of the lid and in
center of the front wall we sew over the small eye for a padlock, which we cut out of a thick paper in the shape of a heart with an arrow. - A merry glade. It will consist of grass in the form of chaotically sewn green fringe, bright silk flowers and butterfly-stickers. By the way, you do not have to sew flowers yourself, you can buy ready-made ones, and then attach them to the lid and sides of the box.
- Well, if you are lazy or do not have time to fiddle with such subtleties, just trim the casket with shiny buttons, colorful beads and pieces of colored paper. And do not forget to invite young assistants to the creative workshop. Children are the best visionaries and designers.