Traditionally, tissue boxes are ugly. Some companies do the best they can to make the square cardboard into something pretty, but really, it’s all the same.
Grannies and nannies will work hard to pretty up tissue boxes with their knitting tricks, but to this day I’ve still never seen a tissue box that I would actually consider home decor.
It’s still not perfect, but I do like the look of this coffee cup turned tissue box a little better just because of the unconventionality of it. So here’s how you can upcycle one of your disposable coffee cups into a tissue box:
You will need -
1. A used coffee cup with lid.
2. An exacto-knife
3. Tissues
4. Markers/paints/colours
5. Hot glue gun or puff paint
Step 1: Squirt a bit of soap into the cup and switch warm water around to clean the inside. Wash the lid as well.
Step 2: Carefully cut out the indented area above the mouthpiece.
Step 3: Glue all the way around the opening to keep the tissue from snagging (you could use puff paint, too!)
Should look something like this on the underside.
Step 4: Decorate!
Et, voila!
Now all we need is to find some tissues that are more environmentally responsible!
