The coffee mill is not only a beautiful and fragrant figure. The mill can be a box for small things or original gift package for coffee. In this article we will explain how to make a decorative box with your own hands.

Materials

• cardboard sheet
• box or plastic bottle for the base of the mill
• rope
• small wooden slats, bamboo napkin or ice cream sticks
• coffee beans
• wire
• a small piece of fabric for making bags and doors
• a small piece of fabric to imitate grass
• paints
• varnish
• fiberboard for base

Instruments

• tweezers
• glue
• pencil
• tassel
• ruler
• office knife or scissors
• compass
• strings
• needle

I do not specify the size and quantity, everything is individual: it depends on what materials you use and on the size of the box.

The process of making a decorative box

Making a roof

Draw and cut a circle from the cardboard. The size depends on how big the mill you want to make. A circle with a diameter of 19 cm suited for a mill 19 cm high.

Make a straight cut from the edge to the center of the circle.

Connect the snicked circle into a cone, glue it.

Paint the cone dark brown, which is close to the color of coffee beans.

When the paint dries, completely glue the whole cone with the coffee beans.

Making the “walls” of the coffee mill

To do this, you need to wrap a suitable box with a rope, giving the walls texture. The chips box was very high, I cut off about a half. A plastic bottle can also be used to create the “walls”.

Apply glue to the box and tightly wrap the box with the rope.

Decorate the “walls” in some places with the coffee beans, imitating a stonework.

For making the door of the coffee mill, you can use any thin wooden slats or ice cream sticks, a bamboo napkin is also very comfortable to use.

Cutting the thread, undo the bamboo napkin.

Draw the shape of the future door on the wooden slats.

Cut the door line and stick on the fabric.

Paint the door with dark brown paint giving it the look of old wood.

Weave a pigtail from thick threads and glue to the door in two places. If necessary, cover them with paint and varnish.

Make a small ring from a thin wire using round pliers or tweezers.

Glue the ring to the door, imitating the handle.

The finished door glue to the mill.

Making the blades of the coffee mill

You can use thin slats or wooden skewers to make blades. Put them crosswise and fix with glue.

Strengthen the blades with small, suitable laths.

The laths paint dark brown to imitate old wood. The middle can be decorated with coffee beans. Then coat the blades with varnish.

Fix the blades on the roof with glue.

Making coffee bags

Use a coarse cloth or burlap for sewing bags.

Sew a small piece on the sides and turn it inside out.

Tilt the edges and fix them with a thread, tighten the thread a little so that the edges of the bag are gathered.

At the bottom of the bag you can put a piece of paper, cotton or fabric, and glue the coffee beans on the top. Decorate the bag with the coffee beans and coat with varnish.

Making the foundation

Cut a circle from a hardboard or thick cardboard on which we will put the mill.

Try on the mill, the bags on the circle and mark with a pencil where the objects will be located.

Make a small fence from coffee beans, fix with glue.

Cover the area free of objects with a cloth imitating grass. Glue it.

Glue the mill to the base. If desired, fix the bags with glue in the same way. Decorate the edges of the circle with coffee beans.

You can put a jar of coffee inside to get an original gift. If desired, glue the roof, and then the mill will become a decorative coffee figure.

The coffee mill is ready.

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Once I was sitting on a couch in front of the TV and sorting through the correspondence that has accumulated in a few days. In one word, there was a dump of necessary and unnecessary papers. And then an idea came to me to create a kind of coffret for daily newspapers, magazines, advertisements, etc. So that I could quickly view and disassemble them when there will be order on the sofa.

So, the question occurred: where I should put them? What container I should use? Then a coincidence helped me. Once I was walking around the city and came into a furniture store.  I still don’t know why I did it. In the corner at the exit laid a cluster of unnecessary things. I know it because the salesman told the roustabout off for the mess. Before this guy took out the garbage, I laid eyes on a small chest.  There was an old shabby wooden box with a small handle. I grabbed it with both hands and begged the worker to give it to me. I was just as happy as a child. I even paid him a small amount of money and the guy was really surprised but glad.

The chest was in a rather good condition on top but it was horrible inside.

I decided to start with it.

First I removed the inner partition for cutlery and I had to ask my husband for help.

I used a scraper to remove the peeling paint, varnish, and paper. Then I scraped it with glass-paper and wiped with alcohol to eliminate any infection.

After that I used the wood-filler to level everything and cleaned it once again with flint cloth.

Then I got down to the external «make-up».

Once again I used the glass-paper on the outside for better grip. Then I dyed it with coated paint. It first well and it doesn’t crack. Before the paint dried, I had made light scuffs with wet fabric in the corners of the coffret. I had to paint it two more times to hide dark color. I had to create scuffs once again but it was worth it. It turned out to be beautiful. I must admit that lately I have conceived a passion for white paint. But it really turned out to be nice!

It looks like the coffret is ready. I could not wait to start drawing a screen pattern.

I highlighted a strip where I would put the word «PARIS» with gray paint. So I used masking tape to create even stripes and put a contrasting paint over them.

When everything is dry, you can remove the tape and will get even stripes.

Now it’s time for the screen pattern. I have already decided to paint it with dark gray paint. I didn’t want to paint it black not to create too strong contrast that wouldn’t look good.

I fixed the screen pattern with tape, so it won’t displace and got down to work. Then I carefully removed it. It was beautiful but kind of raw.

I decided to implant a little of the screen pattern on the background of the box and put strokes on it with a dry brush.

Now it became nice and cute.

Inside I pasted the chest over with fabric stretched over the paper.

In this box I can easily sort out all the papers, and also decided to put a TV remote control here because I always have to look for it when I want to watch something. I like it now!

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