DIY Magazine Holders

So this is what the bottom shelf of my cookbook rack looked like:


Pretty sad, I know. The shelf isn't tall enough for the magazines to stand up on, I can't lean them on the top shelf because there's no sides to support the flimsy magazines. So I had an idea. One that plenty of people have done before. So this isn't anything original. But I thought I'd share it anyways.

I took a box my dad had gotten when he ordered something recently.


See perfect size for my cooking magazines. Modeling for me is my most recent Taste of Home I got in yesterday :)


First I taped the flaps together. I also peeled off the shipping label and pulled some of the cardboard with it. Whoops.


I measured 5 inches down and marked those spots. I drew a line across the front and an angled line from the back corner to the mark on each side. Then I used a box cutter and cut the top and angled down the sides.


I hot glued the bottom flaps to the inside. I decided to leave them for extra stability. You know how cardboard has that funny inside? All hollow? I ran a strip of hot glue down the top of the cut part and smoothed it before it dried with a scrap piece of cardboard. This picture is kinda blurry... but you can see the flaps and the glue (sorta).


Then I spray painted the inside and the edges black. It took a little while because the fog of the paint would run me off. That stuff smells gross and I didn't want it getting all over me. See, nice and even now :)


Then I mod-podged some scrapbook paper to the sides, measuring carefully to make it fit. It worked perfectly because the box was just under 12 inches. I went with a black, white, and grey theme. The whole thing got a nice coat of mod-podge :)


I liked how it turned out so much I made another. And I had so many magazines I needed it. And I just so happened to have an extra box.


I had to move it to the top shelf, but they don't fall over or anything. It's much more attractive than that mess before!

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