 Hello everybody! Welcome to my channel, it's Iwa from Bohemian Crafting and today I would like to show you how you can make from these cheap plastic drawers. This amazing drawer tunnel, which is really strong and you can even sit on it. I hope you will enjoy process video. So today craft video will be a little bit different. It will be not about junk journaling, but about my storage system. I've been shopping a little bit. I bought these six mini drawers. I found them in the range. It's here in Rodrem and I found these drawers. They are perfect size. They are not too small, not too big and I do have those six. I don't want to put them on my shelves separately. I want to put them all together and make one beautiful shelf, which will be sitting on my table. So first of all I had to take off that plastic wrapping and then I decided to put always two of these boxes together. Luckily these boxes have removable top lid. So always I took off one lid from one of these boxes and I clicked on the top the second box. This way I made two long drawers or I'm not sure how to explain it. Always two together. Once I had three of these long storage boxes I used my hot glue gun. I placed that hot glue on that plastic frame on those side strips and I glued another my drawer tower on the side of that first one. Same way I glued that third drawer tower to those two, which I already glued together. To make sure those frames will hold properly I put quite lots of glue between those plastic frames between those plastic strips on the sides to make sure it will hold together. And all this it's kind of like preparation for using spray paint, that base. So I need to make sure that everything will hold properly. To cover that hot glue I choose to use chipboard pieces. I cut from a chipboard two strips one quarter of inch wide and same long as was my plastic frame and I glued those strips on those gaps between my drawers to make it a little bit more pretty. Then I took off also handles from my drawers to make sure I will have nice and clean open space for using my paint. As a base paint I did use high cut just gray painting and I did spray frame and also front of my drawers. I did cut two pieces for sides, same size. I cut one piece for back of this composition and I did cut four pieces for top and bottom part and you will see why. Here you can see how I am gluing those side pieces of that cardboard box. I did cut exactly same size as was my plastic frame. First I glued those side cardboard boxes and then I did glued the back cardboard box on the back of this plastic frame. I made sure that I will put there quite lots of hot glue because I didn't want to mess up this one. I want to make this frame and all this storage box very strong and it is strong, it's nicely strong so there is quite lots of glue under all this cardboard. Once I had glued those side cardboard and the back cardboard box I started to put together the base for bottom of my storage system and also for top. I glued always two pieces together. I did cut them half inch bigger then it's my plastic frame to make sure I will have there also some kind of decoration around and because my plastic drawers are a little bit curved I wanted to make also that cardboard box kind of match that shape of my plastic frame. That's why I cut two corners of that bottom rectangle and also from that top rectangle which I am using with those cardboard boxes. Then I measured how thick those two glued two cardboard boxes are and from a chipboard I did cut quite lots of strips in that size how thick those cardboard boxes are. I think it was half inch and I started to use those strips as a decoration to cover this cardboard box. It looks amazing, it doesn't look like I used cardboard boxes for making my storage stronger and I really like this very easy way how to cover that you are using cardboard box as your as your building material. So I did glue to those chipboard strips all around of the bottom part and top part for my storage storage system and then I took my frame and I glue it to that bottom and then I glued that top part on the top of this storage system. I hope you understand my explanation. Once I had glued all these parts I used my last strips of that chipboard and I glued those strips on sides to cover that cardboard box also on those sides. Once all this was done I took black acrylic paint and I painted all frame including all sides bottom top back part of this frame. I painted with that black paint it was kind of like base for next coloring. I wanted to make this frame or this drawer in kind of like industry style dark like a little bit grungy. So my first coat was this black paint and then I decided to use silver paint and kind of make look like it's metal like very old worn metal and for that it's very important to have that black base. Here you will see that for that metal look I did used iridescent acrylic medium and it's brilliant to use it. So I used a little bit of that iridescent medium because it was quite thick I had to used a little bit of water and make it more leaky and then with soft brush I dabbed up all over of this frame a little bit of that silver iridescent medium acrylic medium and then I used wet wipes and kind of like wipe it off. It's not like I did wipe it off more I like spread it with that wet wipe all over of that frame. I put back all these drawers and continued with that technique like dabbing that color using my soft brush and then kind of like spread it with that wet wipe and it does look really amazing it makes that painting look like it's old metal and I really like this technique it's it's so easy to use that technique and the result is amazing here you can see how it looks I'm kind of aware it's a lot of that painting I'm taking off with that wipe where it's less I'm editing with brush and here you can see to finishing look of my drawers I wanted to use these circle key rings and I wanted to make them look a vintage so I used distress ink I think it was a walnut stain a distress ink and for holding my key rings in those drawers I'm using Utah rope I'm placing that Utah rope to those spaces where there was before that handle from those drawers and I'm gluing it again with hot glue and I put there quite lots of glue all around it doesn't seem here on that video but there is quite lots of glue all around of that rope inside of that drawer to make sure it will hold well and it does hold well so I'm happy I did use this technique it was very easy and I think it looks amazing and this is how my drawers looks like now it's all dry and I'm so happy it looks this way they are nice and strong it's really strong this this construction even I use those cardboard boxes and I hope they will stay still for very very long time so that was all my sharing for today thank you so so much for joining me today in that unusual craft uh craft session I hope you did enjoy it it's really easy to kind of alter those plastic boxes and that plastic around that frame around of those plastic drawers it's perfect like the base where you can build around so if you do have any of those drawers uh at your home maybe it's good to start to use them a little bit different way thank you so so much for joining me today thank you so much for visiting me today have a beautiful day take care about yourself and I will see you soon bye