Crystal Madrilejos

Design & Creative

Uncategorized

Tissue Box Cover

There seems to be a void in the world of tissue box design. For whatever reason, the patterns that adorn boxes of facial tissue are inevitably horrible. And this isn’t a new revelation. Grandmothers across the globe have been crocheting tissue box covers for years now and others have come up with even more impressive solutions. For example, one of my favorite remedies does away with the box altogether:


Since Crystal and I battle the occasional allergen and we have boxes of tissues throughout the house I wanted to try and ease our eyes from the patterned hell. I focused on our bedroom where end table space is limited and access can be a problem. Here was my “solution”:

-a.

Tags: ,

5 comments

  1. Nerdalie - July 1, 2009 10:21 pm

    Wow, very cool. Beautiful wood too.

    Reply
  2. Stephanie - July 2, 2009 5:13 am

    This is completely awesome. Are you adding them to the store?

    Reply
  3. Andrew and Crystal - July 2, 2009 3:06 pm

    Thank you, thank you! We've considered making more and we'll say this: The consideration isn't out of the question. Stay tuned …

    Reply
  4. more mad - July 2, 2009 7:16 pm

    i would order one of those in a second!! would be the perfect gift for a designer friend who is the bane of my x-mas shopping existence. she'd be jealous she didn't make one first!

    Reply
  5. kali - November 24, 2009 1:15 am

    LOL I love it…its so practical!

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *