10/11 2002

Chest with Drawers #3

Now that I was in the groove of creating chests with video tapes I just had to come up with a different shape. How about a triangle? That sounded good, but how to put it together?

Materials:

  • 3 Video Tapes
  • Fabric Hockey Tape
  • Foam Core Board
  • Glue
  • Stencil
  • Fabric Paint
  • 6 beads
  • metal wire 

Assembly of Chest


front with drawer open


back


side


drawer

First I covered each video tape with blue fabric hockey tape. Then I had to figure out how to attach them to each other in a triangle. Then it occurred to me that I could cut some cardboard (from a cereal box, put the printed side against the video tape) the size of the video tape and fold it in half. Then I glued it to the inside of the video tape (the side that has the holes) with the fold at the end of the tape to make a flap to attach to the next tape. Once all the cardboard pieces were glued to the tapes, I covered them again with hockey tape. That made it quite stable.

Now on the outside I had a choice to make the triangle with pointed ends or with dull ends. I decided on pointed ends and covered the outside with cardboard also. Only now the tips had holes in them. I fill these with cardboard triangles and then covered everything again with hockey tape. I probably could have skipped this until I was ready to do it now.

Unfortunately my tips didn't look even with the rest of the tapes. What to do? Then I realized that I had some slats from plastic window blinds that were exactly the width of the video tapes. I covered the slats with hockey tape and glued them to one side of the triangle. This will be the front of the chest.

I placed my triangle on a piece of foamcore board and cut that out and glued it to the back of the the triangle. Now I had something that looked like a triangular box.

I sponge painted the outside with different shades of blue fabric paint and then stenciled some shells with gold fabric paint over that.

For the legs I glued 3 drinking straws together and covered them with hockey tape and painted them blue and glued then to the bottom of the chest.

Drawer

I had decided from the beginning to only make one drawer. So I cut a piece of foam core board the width where I wanted the shelf above the drawer to be. Then I covered the foam core with hockey tape and then glued it in place. Later on I realized that it would look better if the top of the shelf was painted in gold fabric paint, so I did that.

Now creating a drawer in a triangular space presented a problem. I overcame this by making the drawer itself rectangular and the front of the drawer triangular.

As I was using a water theme, I used 2 sets of 3 pearl beads tied together with metal wire as handles.

 

Let me know what you think of my project