Updated Cardboard Periodical Holders

As promised, I'm dorsum over again amongst or thus other quick together with slowly arts and crafts cupboard update.  A few weeks agone I overhauled my wood file cabinet together with today I'm sharing a super slowly agency to update cheap cardboard magazine holders.  I tend to purchase these inexpensive ones from IKEA because you lot can't compaction the toll together with they are thus slowly to update together with modify.

After scouring my arts and crafts supplies together with going dorsum together with forth betwixt using vintage locker tags or metal pulls, I eventually had a innovation to order my cheap boxes a to a greater extent than expensive look.

I started past times touchstone together with cutting sparse strips of balsa forest to lucifer the front end of the magazine holder.

I thus stained each slice amongst Minwax Jacobean.

Once dry, I used hot gum to attach the forest strips to the front end of each box.

(I was originally going to purpose the vintage locker tags, only liked the expect of the pulls better.  Don't worry, those locker tags are also skilful non to move used somewhere.)

Now that I had the forest inwards house it was fourth dimension to attach the brads together with pulls.  I unremarkably purpose the thicker balsa wood, only for this projection I picked upward the super sparse pieces.  The forest is thus soft that I was able to poke holes using a minor drill bit. 

You would never know from the front end of the boxes that they are genuinely made out of cheap cardboard.

I placed them on ane of the shelves inwards my arts and crafts cupboard together with I dear how they necktie inwards amongst my faux specimen file cabinet. 

I intend they turned out pretty good considering they ended upward costing less than $1.50 a slice to update.

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