Companion Cube Tissue box

Step 3 Paint and attach the corners.

Now, take your 8 corners outside and spray paint them white. This will take at last 3 coats until they are pure white. Do not try to do it in one coat, you will only create drips in the spray paint. You can usually spray another coat after about 20 minutes (depending on your conditions outside).

Also, spray paint your 4 two inch wooden disks white. 3 coats should cover up the wood grain.

Go ahead and give the box another coat of gray.

Allow everything to dry. Unless you want finger smudges all over your perfectly white pieces, let them dry for at least 2 hours, if not overnight.

I attached the 8 corners first, then applied the pink paint, however it's probably best to paint your pink lines first. Both methods will come to the end result.

Now, put hot glue on all the contact points of your corners, then attach them to the box. You will need to do one corner at a time and attach the top ones first. You will need to work fast before the glue cools.

The bottom ones are a little more difficult to attach because of how the box is constructed. In order to be able to insert tissue boxes later, you will need to attach the bottom boxes carefully. I had to put glue only on the areas where it would contact the outer faces, and not on the bottom. Then I had to use a razor blade to cut away the excess corner, so that later, I can put a tissue box inside. Other wise the corners block the bottom entrance.

After cutting away the excess corners, glue down the remaining contact points. I also folded up scrap pieces of cardboard and stuffed them into the now open corners. This gave them extra strength so that they don't collapse. If you have lots of extra glue, it is possible to 'fill' these spaces with hot glue, and that would give you a great support structure. I did not do this, the stuffed cardboard worked great.