DIY Cardboard Fabric Box

DIY Cardboard Fabric Box

I am so much in love with those fabric covered boxes, we get at supermarkets. For so many days I was thinking to buy one, but I didn't.  As a result I thought of making one at home myself. I have not made any fancy box. I have made this simple fabric box out of less material and in short time(like half an hour). You can make it even better with your imagination. I am just sharing my DIY project.

These boxes can be used for lots of storage purpose. The one I made here is for bathroom storage, like shampoo, moisturizers bottles etc. And I made this out of shoes box.

You will need

Any size cardboard box

Your choice of patterned fabric

Matching plane fabric

Scissors

Glue (specially fabric glue, I had one which was multipurpose and worked perfectly)

Procedure

Cut the plane fabric, taking measurements of inner side of the box. As we are using plane fabric to inner lining of box. First cut fabric for inner walls of box and paste it using glue. Then cut for inner base and paste it. While pasting make the fabric even and plane with your palm. Now cut the patterned fabric by taking outer measurements. Same as inner, cut fabric for outer walls first and paste. Here keep extra width of fabric to fold little inside. Finally while cutting for outer base, keep extra edges from all sides. Now here you need to fold and paste every side in one inch. And paste this fabric on outer base. Your box is ready.

Pardon me as I did not take the step wise photographs while doing this projects. But this is so easy, that I am certain you will get the idea from the final box. And it is up to you, you can do it however you want.




Tip

For inside lining, you can use any old fabric available at home, like piece of old cushion covers, bed sheets etc.

If you don’t want to use fabric for inside lining, you can use any plain desired color paper or just white color paper as well. That works great.

Pasta in White Sauce

Pasta in white sauce

I have been making this pasta for quite a while now. This simple and delicious pasta is one pot meal and kids' favorite too. So whenever you need a break from routine meal and want your kids to have veggies, try this homemade pasta. Once you taste this, you will never go for store bought pasta sauce, it is this simple and easy.

Pasta - any type of pasta tastes good with this sauce, but penne and macaroni are the most used types of pasta with this sauce.

Vegetables

Onions

Bell pepper

Sweet corns

Olives

Broccoli

Carrots

(use your choice of vegetables)

For sauce

Butter 1 tbsp

Olive oil 1 tbsp (can be skipped)

Flour 1 tbsp

Milk 1 cup

Cheese 1/2 cup

(you can use mixture of any cheese, I generally use chedder and mozzarella for this sauce)

Salt and Pepper for seasoning

Italian seasoning

Recipe

1. Cook pasta according to packet instructions. Generally pasta takes 8-9 minutes to become al dente. Pasta should not be over cooked, it should be firm to bite.

2.Meanwhile cut your veggies and stir fry them in a little butter and olive oil.

3. In a deep pan add butter and oil, once the butter melts completely add flour to it and stir it for a minute, do not burn it. Add milk to it while stirring. Keep stirring until it thickens.     

4. Now add cheese to this and stir until cheese melts.

5. Season with salt and pepper.

6. Finally add this sauce and veggies to cooked pasta and sprinkle little bit Italian seasoning and some more cheese and serve hot.

Note-

1. Al dente is the stage before softening the pasta.

2. Once your pasta has become al dente, drain the water and run it through cold water to stop further cooking.