Project 7: Lacquered storage boxes

I found this box at Ikea ($39 - above) and thought it would be the perfect storage for the hair related paraphernalia that overwhelms your bathroom when you have two daughters - clips, hairbands, headbands, school hairbands, ribbons, combs, brushes, nitcombs.....you get the picture. And after our previous success using Mod Podge on the trays, I thought it would probably work on these boxes too. And it did. Really well.

We bought a few beautiful sheets of wrapping paper and also had lots of odd bits of paper already in our craft ammunition. We simply traced the shape of each drawer onto the paper and cut it out. A coat of Mod Podge first, then we stuck the paper on carefully and smoothed out the bumps, and gave another coat of Mod Podge on top. It dries really quickly and you can build up the strength of the surface by applying several coats. You can also add an acrylic waterproof sealer if you plan on storing the object in a damp bathroom or other water exposed area.

Amanda made a four and six drawer one for each of her kids to store their treasures, and they are just beautiful.

I am just rapt at how easy this was, how effective, and how beautiful the finished product is. I have mine in my bathroom next to my new curtains and they look gorgeous together.

And despite this being my genius plan to tame the hair related carnage at home, I keep finding my one year old standing on a stool and pulling out each drawer to systematically empty their contents over the floor. Bah!!!

Kate