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Organised chaos

Projects from Nadia magazine

Creative play is essential for kids, but keeping their bits and bobs in order is essential for you!

Keep the clutter to a minimum in your kids’ rooms with tidy wooden boxes painted in your chosen colour scheme. Here we played with complementary hues to create unique shapes using Resene testpots.

Painted boxes to organise clutter

Painted wooden boxes

You will need:

Instructions:

  1. Lightly sand any rough areas on your box shelves. Clean away wood dust.

  2. With a roller, paint each box in your main colour (we chose Resene ‘Alpaca’). Use a paintbrush for hard-to-reach areas. Leave one side unpainted while it dries. Once dry, paint remaining surface and allow to dry. Repeat with a second coat.

  3. Mask off the inside middle section of the shelves with painters tape. Paint in another colour (we used Resene ‘Regent Grey’). Allow to dry, repeat with another coat. Remove tape.

  4. With a pencil, lightly mark out a design on all three boxes. (You may find masking off areas with painter’s tape helps to get a cleaner edge). Paint design in steps – one Resene colour at a time. Allow to dry, then apply a second coat. Once dry move onto your next Resene colour and repeat.

  5. Remove all tape and rub away any visible pencil marks.

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Words and pictures by Tanya Wong.

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Projects from Nadia magazine
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