Milk box revamp

All my paint brushes were positively annoying me just lying around in a drawer that I decided a plan must be made, and quickly. We had just bought some milk, the long life kind that comes in those cardboard boxes. I saw an opportunity and decided that it would be a perfect box to house the brushes in, once prettied up a little. So here is what I did...

What I used/ what you need:
Random piece of wood for the bottom (because it is semi open and just to give it some support)
scissors
spray paint
stencil
tape 
old coffee tins (optional)

What I did/ my instructions:
Size and place the random piece of wood on the bottom on the box. 

Cut off the top flaps of the box with a pair of scissors because lets face it those just get in the way.
I painted the box with one layer of matt white spray paint because I didn't have primer. I don't know if it actually makes a difference priming the cardboard or not.

Let it dry. 

Spray a few layers of dark brown spray paint. It's what I had a tin of and a color I don't often use. I could have wrapped it with pretty paper or fabric but I wasn't in the mood to sit and neatly wrap a milk carton box.
Pick and place a stencil on the box, on the side that is going to show forward. 
After I sprayed on my stencil and removed it I did notice a little bit of bleed through so perhaps I should have stuck the stencil down better. Oops! That said it is a quick, easy and impromptu box to house all my paint brushes so perhaps it doesn't have to be perfect and the imperfections just add character.


I let the paint dry after spraying the stencil pattern onto the box, added my paint brushes and Tada.
Now that I think about it, I could have painted the tins and left the box altogether.

I didn't bother with the bottom or the inside. It's just a quick box to house my paint brushes after all.
Wait for the brown to dry... Felt like it took forever....

I then sprayed a layer of fluorescent fire orange to make my stenciled design. I chose that color because that is what I had and I thought the orange might just look good on the brown. I was careful when taping the stencil though as I didn't want to put tape on the box in case it pulled the brown paint off when I removed it. For that very reason I also didn't use spray adhesive.

It's probably prudent to note that the brushes disappeared into the box so I separated the brushes from the rollers and put them into two old coffee tins which I then placed in the box.