Making Ultra Realistic Egg Carton Bricks
This is my hobby. What’s yours?
This is a kitchen I finished two years ago, using these same techniques:
Today, with my current project, I’m going to show you how to start with cardboard and end up with something fabulous. Egg carton bricks have a lot of advantages over their “real” counterparts. Yes, of course, cost. But, more than that, egg carton bricks are versatile. They can easily be cut, and shaped, in a variety of different ways. It was a lot easier to make the fireplace above, with its arch, out of cardboard than it would have been to use a different medium. I also find, personally, that in terms of staying true to scale often the cheaper products actually work better. Brick, in particular, is simply–apart from all its other faults–too porous to really, truly “work.” Now, that being said, what egg cartons lack in cost they arguably make up for in labor! And…
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