Today I made a simple box to hide the extension cord and my phone charger.

I wanted to make “something” to hide the extension cord and the cables and the phone charger, but I didn’t knew exactly what I wanted. That was until I stumbled upon a cable organizer at IKEA. I love Ikea. Anyway, I saw it’s a bit pricey but then I said to myself: hey you can build one yourself. And that’s exactly what I did.

First a drew a plan and set the dimensions. (dimensions are in cm)

Then I bought a sheet of thick cardboard and I cut all the sides I needed including the lid.

Then I made some corner reinforcements to join the sides. After this I glued all the pieces together making sure to fit them as best as I could so I would have straight edges.

The bottom piece is shorter to allow me to get the extension cord through.

For the top I had something else in mind. I wanted to cover it in textile to be able to leave my phone on top without it scratching. So before this I cut the hole by dragging a middle line and then using a bottle cap draw the rounded corners. After cutting the hole I cut a piece of black fabric a bit wider (about 2cm wider on all sides) than the top cardboard piece. I then glued the sides of the fabric to the lid.

Another thing I did was I glued pieces of cardboard as supports for the lid to sit on and not bend in.

One last thing was I cut a cable slot for the power cable.

The final step was painting the box with black spray. I let it dry overnight and the next day the box was usable.