Just some paint

Yesterday I showed you the free tea box I got from my office. It was a DIY project just waiting to happen from the moment I saw it.

First step, outside to the back alley for a few coats of gray paint

The top was too plain so I took some scrap paper and a ruler and came up with this pattern

In order to get the pattern on the box I colored the back in with my pencil

Then I taped my pattern on the box top and just traced over the lines, kinda like a poor man's tracing paper. It left me with light pencil lines on the box to guide me when painting.

I didn't take any other pictures of the process, so here is the final outcome

The inside was filled with glue and would have been a pain to get off, so I covered some cardboard with orange fabric and it went from looking like this

to looking like this

The new box will be for my desk area and will hold the odds and ends that normally would make my drawerless desk look cluttered.  But now it looks neat and organized just how I like it.

Since the box was free and I already had all the supplies at home,  this was a $0 DIY makeover.