As i work on spicing up my living space i feel the need to share ideas for easy projects that ANYone can do around the house... i had these boxes laying around from a craft project that i worked on a few years ago....

so i took the two largest ones...and spray painted them a silver-pueter color. i was thinking that i would do this little project while Cory was at work and he would be none the wiser... so i headed outside......FREEZING cold...there was NO way i was going to stand out there and paint, so i did this "painting" in the guest bathroom.....BAD IDEA! I put down paper under the boxes but, i forgot how messy spay paint is....the stuff flies EVERY WHERE! so Cory came home and wasn't too happy with the casualty of the craft project... i played it off like i knew what i was doing and told him in -Duh- voice..."fingernail polish remover takes it right off, no big deal" and snuck downstairs to get the polish remover.....i got cotton balls....held my breath, made a wish, crossed my fingers....and WAH-LAH it worked! it cleaned up like a champ and my painted box turned out great....

so then i went digging threw my box of screws, nails, and hanging stuff and found these hinges and an old knob. i took the hinges off a tri-folding picture frame that i hated as a group of three but loved separately.... attached them to the back....

then screwed the knob on the front .....

and WAH-LAH...we have a chic box to hide all the not so chic stuff on my cute new shelves....