sharmalija: Plastic Drawers Made Pretty

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Plastic Drawers Made Pretty | My Blessed Home

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I have eight of these little drawer units, holding a total of 24 drawers. I?ve been using them for ten or fifteen years, and have come to depend on them to sort paper of all kinds. In addition to the action, bill paying and filing drawers that you see in the picture, I also have drawers for shopping (coupons, etc), puzzles, lined paper, unlined paper, special paper, notecards, photos, and one for each child to put their school and miscellaneous papers? and more.

Wonderful and useful little drawers, aren?t they? But they have one flaw. The see-through feature makes them rather ugly, when you can see the myriad of papers inside. Yesterday, with the help of my two eldest daughters, I decided to do something about that.

I found this youtube tutorial, which showed me an inexpensive way to decorate them and hide the contents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-is3_ppuwQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player. Then we got down to business.

I got out a package of color-coordinated scrapbook paper (bought recently for another project), Mod Podge (I always have it on hand), and paintbrushes.
The kids and I selected our favorite patterns from the scrapbook paper pad, and cut them to fit the front of each drawer.
We brushed a thin layer of Mod Podge to the front interior of the first drawer.
We carefully laid a piece of scrapbook paper over the Mod Podge.
We mod podged the back side of the scrapbook paper.
We repeated this process 23 times.
We let the drawers air dry for several hours.

After the drawers were dry, I got out my beloved label maker?(I use it for everything) and made a label for each drawer.

This is what it looked like when all was said and done: