Sneaker Box Frames - What to do with extra sneaker boxes

Maybe it’s just me, but does anyone feels as though they have too many sneakers boxes and don’t know what to do with them? Personally, I see myself a few times out the course of the year paying and collecting shoes like any normal human would but then left with a dilemma, the shoe boxes. They pile like crazy and it leaves me scratching my head about what to do with them.

What Am I Suppose To Do?

I could just throw them out at the end of the day, but I feel like it would be a waste. It’s probably doing something bad to the environment that I wouldn’t know personally but I’m sure people would tell me. What to do with my extra sneaker boxes? What should I do? I think I just found a solution to our shoe boxes problem, and it only cost a little bit of money and a lot of creativity. Are you ready?

Here’s what you need:

• Scissors or AN box cutter (in the beginning but definitely scissors in the end)

• Glue

• Frame probably the large poster frame 24X36 is good $20 for Michaels/Walmart/Amazon

• Any electric tape (black usually looks the cleanest afterward)

• Some type of weighted items or weights to hold multiple things down at the same time (explain later)

Without forward delay let’s begin.

First, cut all your boxes. Boxes usually have folds on them leaving a crease where a line should be able to fold. Unfold the box and begin to cut where the crease is at. In most cases, you will get perfect shapes of rectangle boxes from the shoe boxes coming from both the top, sides, and bottom of the box. Probably want to separate the cut-up boxes by size, putting the top and bottom shapes together and separating from all the side shapes of boxes because they usually have different sizes.

Cut up boxes

Next is the creative part, you want to open your fame up and line your cut-off boxes. The creative comes from you, so you can line them any way you want. Don’t worry about overlaying the frame you’ll be cutting the excess off later away. One recommended design is when the boxes are lined diagonally to the frame. Like I said before you can be creative with it, it’s up to what you want to do.

Lining it up. Be Creative.

Once you got the place set in stone, next you would want to glue down all the spots of the frame and place the cut-up boxes in the glued spots. This is the part I mention about the weights. You want something to weigh it down to keep them in place for the cardboard to stick to the frame. 5 to 10 minutes should be enough to make the glue weigh down depending on how many you do at one given time.

GLUE / WEIGHT

Now the fun part, we cut. We cut off the edges from the sides that are handing off the frame. This is also when the tape comes in. The tape is there to hold the cut-offs in place for security and give the piece a cleaner look.

CUT / TAPE

Once that’s completed put the cover of the frame top and take a step back to look at what you did. You’ve just made a Sneaker Box Frame poster or whatever. Congrats, now you can hang it on your wall.

JOB FINISHED

There’s a video giving a step-by-step guide on how to make this frame below until then, ✌️.