Online shopping has one advantage shops rarely mention – you get a cardboard box for free.
Sometimes a small one. Sometimes one so big you start wondering whether you accidentally ordered a fridge.
We don’t throw cardboard boxes away in a hurry. First, we check whether they might have a second career ahead of them.
These did.
We turned delivery boxes into storage for cleaning cloths. Because cleaning cloths deserve a little dignity too. Especially if, until now, their storage system was officially known as – shove them somewhere under the sink.
DIY cloth storage. Consider it a promotion.
Flatten the box, turn it inside out and cut out our pattern.
Then fold everything back together and suddenly an ordinary delivery box starts looking as though it had a career plan all along.
Put it on a shelf or hang it on the wall. Inside: cloths, dusters and the entire textile special-ops team.
Moral? Never judge a box by its first job.
There are two kinds of people among recyclers in this world. Those who put the right kind of waste in the right bin for recycling and those who play recycling but call it upcycling. We hope, both of them will be happy to hear the news that cardboard is up pretty high on the list of trendy design materials right now. We hope this tutorial makes also the point that you can use recycling to make amazing things! Find other awesome upcycling ideas here.
