Beautify Plastic Drawers

Many people have drawers like this, they are cheap, functional, and a good way to organize things, but they can really put a damper on the style of your home.  I decided to make mine a little bit prettier!  

Here are the supplies you will need:

Wax paper

Scissors

Pen

Scrapbook paper

Scrapbook paper cutter (unless you have a steady hand)

Mod Podge and sponge brush (optional, there is a way to do it without this)

Scotch Tape

either craft roller used with Mod Podge or credit card ( I don't have either so I used a Pizza Hut gift card)

and of course the plastic drawers

First take the drawers out and clean everything really well.  Then take the first drawer and sit it up on its end, so the handle is pointing to the ceiling.  Then lay the wax paper on top of the part of the drawer with the handle.  Line it up with one of  the short sides and one of the long sides, then tape it on. 

Looking at the picture, I lined up the wax paper on the right side and the back side, it is  a little hard to tell though. 

Once you have done that cut off the excess wax paper hanging off the other two sides.  It should look like this: 

It is hard to tell that there is wax paper on the top, but if you look at the handle you can see it a little bit better.


Then carefully remove the wax paper.  Turn the drawer upside down, so the handle is on the floor.  Then place  the wax paper cutout inside the drawer to make sure it fits.  You will probably have to trim a little bit off, if so carefully trim it, it helps to tape it down with a couple pieces of tape.  Then you will need to cut the paper into four different pieces:  On either side of the handle (right where there is a curve in the plastic) make a vertical cut, so you have three pieces that will look like this: 

Then for the middle piece of wax paper, make  horizontal cut right where the curve in the drawer stops and the indent of the handle starts.  It should look like this:

Then place the wax paper on top of your scrapbook paper and trace it, then cut out the paper.  If you want a straight line use a scrapbook paper cutter, if you have a steady hand you can just scissors.

Once you have cut out all four pieces of paper you should have something like this: 

I didn't feel like cutting off the extra on the top in the middle piece of paper, i knew the height of the other pieces were a little tall so I was just going to trim it all off later.  It is your choice though weather to do it know or later.

Then turn the drawer so the handle is on the floor.  The paper was cut into four pieces so attaching it into the drawer would be easier.  Put a layer of Mod Podge on the inside of the drawer where you are going to attach the first piece of paper, then put a layer on the front side of the paper.  Stick them together and use the roller, credit card, or gift card to smooth out and wrinkles or bubbles you get.  Then put another layer of Mod Podge on the back side of the paper.  Repeat for the rest of your drawers.

Let it dry, trim the excess, the add another layer of Mod Podge, let dry add another layer.  Then spray with a layer of finishing spray. That's it, you are done.  Put the drawers back in and fill it with whatever you want!

Note: If you do not have Mod Podge you can make some, here is an easy way to do so, or you can just  use scotch tape.  Take your pick.  I've seen both done and you can't really tell a difference.