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With the advancement to a fresh and beyond (yay!) address came the requisite fresh appliance purchases. My admired so far is the atramentous bottle board I best up from Office Depot. But this column isn’t about that little gem of a desk. It’s about the horrendously ample styrofoam packaging that came central the flat-packed box.

I’m a collager, and accept been affective to sculpural collage, so I ample I’d about-face the heavily textured and geometric 3′x6′ allotment of packing actual into a abundant bank piece. First footfall was to acrylic it, but actuality is the important part… You charge use baptize based adeptness acrylic for this. NO aerosol paint, NO oil based paints, NO latex. The chemicals will eat the styrofoam and it will cook afore your eyes.

Mine is corrective bittersweet red, with atramentous accents, and anniversary little angle in the styrofoam adds the absolute befalling for texture.

Ideally, I would accept it all finished, but alas, it is currently blind on the bank cat-and-mouse for the art afflatus to do the collage assignment on top of it.

Throughout the allotment will be quotes, baby little trinkets placed to accord it a shadow-box feel in areas, and arrangement images for contrast. My admired abode to acquisition arrangement images is appliance magazines, which frequently accept ads with adventurous blush and shapes, as against to calmly apparent images. I will column pics back I get home to appearance the “work in progress”.

I amount back we’re all bushing our lives up with admirable furniture, lighting, etc, there will be added packing actual than conceivably you’re acclimated to, and back decorating able-bodied audibly requires the adeptness to “think alfresco the box”, why not be thrifty and eco-conscious as well, while catastrophe up with large(r) calibration art from your own hands?