Kleenex Box Cover

My husband remodeled our bathroom this past summer (bless his heart, I was 7 months pregnant so each night after working, he would replace the toilet for me).  Anyway, I've tried to somewhat decorate the bathroom, but I never could find that right Kleenex box cover.  I bought the cute ones that you can try and match, but after it ran out...the problem was back.

So, I decided to make my own.  It wasn't too difficult, but I did have to pick some seams and try again.

End result

Here is what I ended up doing...

I used an empty milk box from Costco...I cut the bottom into 4 pieces that would be the sides of my box...

Yay!  The hole was already cut for me, I just centered it and cut to make the top piece

Once I had my four sides and top, I placed them around an actual Kleenex box and taped them together

Then I taped the top on...and covered the whole thing with tape.  I then cut the tape over the hole and pushed it in, so the sides of the hole were smooth

 Okay, here's where the pictures stopped.  I was going to just mod-podge some cute paper on, but then I decided I wanted a little sturdier box, so I grabbed some scrap material I had lying around.  I measured the top of my box and added about 1/2", then I measured all four sides of the box and added a couple inches to the width, then added an inch to the height.

I hemmed the bottom edge of the piece that would go around the sides.  Then, I cut a hole in the top piece, folded the edges over and sewed a border.

Then, I took that top piece and placed it on the piece for the sides.  I sewed along one edge, and when I got to the corner, I left the needle down, turned the TOP piece to have its edge match the edge of the side piece (make any sense?), then I continued sewing.

When I got all the way around, I had just enough fabric left over to sew the sides together.

Mine ended up being just a tad short, so I found another piece of material lying around that matched and tied it around the bottom...I think it gives it just a bit more character.


Here is the end result.

It's not perfect, but for a rookie and not reading any tutorial, I think it turned out quite nice.  And now I have a nice cover, so no matter what the Kleenex box looks like, I can always cover it up.

Total time: 2 hours (would've taken a lot less time had I known what I was doing).
Cost: Free