We have this HUGE storage cabinet in our office that has always been an eyesore. It dominates the room with all of it’s scratches, smudges, and poor construction. If our teeny, tiny apartment didn’t make the extra storage it provides a necessity, I would have tossed this monster long ago. But since I’m stuck with it until we get a house, I decided to make a craft project out of it. So ta da! These are the before and after pictures. Click on it to see the larger picture of the finished side.
I have immense amounts of scrapbook paper so that’s where I got the idea. I was originally thinking of using classic Tetris colors, but I think they may have been a little garish on such a large surface. All I did was cut out pieces on the paper and use spray adhesive to attach them to the cabinet. As Will noticed, the “l” pieces are one square too short. The paper I had was only 9 inches wide, and if I made the shapes smaller to fit the l, I think it would have looked a little crazy. So just think that the “l” pieces are shorter because we cleared some lines. ^_^ A thick sharpie gave me the uniform black lines to finish everything off. So now instead of a huge eyesore in our office, we have a huge INTERESTING eyesore.
I wonder if all the glue I used on it will help it stay up longer. I’m expecting that wonky old thing to collapse sooner or later….
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Your missing the piece that looks like a “S” and your straight pieces are too short. Now who’s the geek?
It really does look good though.
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 9:08 am
@Will
Hey I got some “s” pieces in there! And I meant to put a note about the “l” shapes…. I”ll go do that now.
You’re still a geek though!
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 10:57 am
You’re so lucky, you get to do cool crafts all the time!
I’m going to show this to my wife. It is something we could do in her classroom and the kids would love it.
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Man, you leave a lot of gaps. You suck at Tetris!
But you rock at crafts, so that makes up for it
on Sep 11th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
The patterned paper is what really makes this awesome - even if your long pieces aren’t quite long enough. Great idea!
on Sep 12th, 2008 at 11:17 am
The Nicholas and I both agree this is fabulous, simply fabulous!
on Dec 3rd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
I really like tetris, I waiste all of my time at work playing it.
on Feb 24th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
The Nicholas and I both agree this is fabulous, simply fabulous!