How To Make A Box With A Lid

These might exist kinda ugly, just…. 1 of the most common and practical solutions for organizing and de-cluttering is using a storage box with a lid. Store bought boxes with lids can be costly, especially when you need to buy several; so, I decided to make my own.

Card board boxes with diy cardboard lids

How to Brand a Lidded Storage Box from Card Lath

Although these aren't very pretty, they are very cheap and quite easy to make. Yous tin get out them obviously if you are just looking to get organized or decorate them. I volition continue to mail service ideas for decorating lidded storage boxes that tin be used for gift giving, keepsake and storage. In the meantime, hither is a quick tutorial on how to make your own storage box with lid.

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Supplies needed to make a lidded storage box:

Big cardboard boxes

Pocket-sized cardboard boxes

Box cutter

Ruler or straight border

Cutting mat – or spare piece of plywood as a mat

To make final cuts: Rotary cutter with cutting blade (optional) – or use box cutter

To score folds paper-thin: Rotary cutter with scoring blade (optional) – or a Phillips spiral commuter

Record or Glue (choose one below)

Gum gun and mucilage sticks (This pick works best)

Clear mailing record

Newspaper mailing tape

duct tape

wide masking tape

Gather boxes big and small. The small volition remain equally a box. The larger boxes volition exist used for the lids.

Tip: If you practice a bunch of these at 1 fourth dimension, so complete one footstep for all of your boxes before moving on to the next step. This will save your time and effort.

To match up a modest box to a hat that will fit, lay each of your small boxes on the side of a respective large box to make sure you have a lid that will fit your box. Ideally yous want to have about 2 inches extra outside the small box on the lid slice.

Cut all of the excess flaps off the larger boxes, leaving merely the side pieces which will go lids.

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On the part that will be the lesser box, simply cut off the excess flaps.

At that place are several means to brand a box hat. Hither is an easy method that I have found to work quite well for small-scale to moderate storage.

Lay your box down on top of i of the large box sides (the soon to exist box lid)
Draw a line around the box lesser onto the lid.

Tip: If you lot are making several boxes at one time, label each box and corresponding lid either alphabetically or numerically, and so that they will match up with each other subsequently.

Measure out approximately 1-i/ii" to 2" effectually your line, and draw a second or outside line.

Depict a line in each corner from inside line to outside line.

Cutting off excess cardboard up to the outside line, with either a rotary cutter or box cutter and a ruler or straight edge.

Score the cardboard from border to edge, only outside the within line using a ruler and either a rotary cutter with a scoring bract or the edge of a Phillips screw driver.

Fold cardboard where your made score lines.

To attach the corners, you can use either a glue gun or your option of tape. For the glue gun method, fold one corner flap in utilize gum with gun and then fold the other flap on elevation. For the record method, fold i corner flap in, so the other flap over and attach your tape.