Colorfully diced – You can't buy these practical law enforcement officers – but do it yourself. How the simple boxes with color become stylish showpieces, we will show you.
No matter, whether the small cubes in the kitchen for glasses and crockery, in the bathroom for cream jars and tubes or as a CD box in the living room – in different colors they are always an eye-catcher. And when you have filled all the boxes with content, you can continue the colorful series at any time. If you don't want the dice to hang on the wall, they can also serve as "impostors".. Our models made of MDF (medium density fibreboard) are 20 x 20 cm tall and 1 cm thick. For the material with cutting you have to pay approx 8 Calculate euros/sqm.
GLUE
The side parts are with Ober- and underbody buttly glued. Pay attention to flush edges! You can use express glue, it dries in ten minutes.
The red plate ensures perpendicularity and parallelism. Fix the glued parts with clamps.
WITH CLEARCOAT
If the cube should remain in the MDF natural tone, the surfaces must be sanded (break edges). The Clearcoat (375 ml zirka 7 Euro) two- up to three times, Apply four to five times to the highly absorbent edges. Use 220 grit sandpaper for intermediate sanding.
MIT BUNTLACK
First the edges, then prime the surfaces inside and out.
After intermediate sanding, the cube is coated twice with acrylic paint (125 ml 4 Euro) painted. There is a special primer from Molto for preparing the substrate for MDF boards (500 ml 9,95 Euro), which covers with an order.