Cereal Box Transformation

For the longest time, I would look at spaces in my house and compare them with all the gorgeous pictures I'd see on Pinterest. I knew my budget could never create such amazing rooms, so I'd sigh, and face reality... not. gonna. happen. Then I got an idea... How much could I do in a space with $100? It became my own little challenge and I love it. Last month I worked on my mudroom, and now I'm doing my laundry closet. When working with such a tight budget you've got to get creative, so I decided to take a cereal box and turn it into a lint box.

Before I begin the actual tutorial, I wanted to show you what I had been using to store my lint for the past 5 years. See, my laundry room is, in fact, a closet. I literally have no room for a trash can, but I shoved one between the wall and dryer anyway. I found this "solution" rather unattractive, so I decided to make something a little easier on the eyes.





I'll share my version, but you can certainly tweak it however you'd like. I started with a cereal box (a big one from Costco), spray paint, 2 large wooden clothespins, and stain... plus some stickers and washi tape (not shown in the above picture).





I cut off the top flaps from the box and spray painted it all the way around. Then I stained the clothespins.
I added a strip of washi tape to the top and some sticker letters to the front, and there you have it! For the final result, click here
This is not the only time I took a box and made something out of it, check out what I did in our pantry.
For the full laundry room reveal, check out the link below!






Original article and pictures take http://www.hometalk.com/11048074/cereal-box-to-lint-box site