Photo Box and Versatile Room

Whenever I was finished making an item and I wanted to take pictures of it, my desk usually looked like this. I had no room to put the item down and it really would not make a nice picture in all that clutter. So I had to clear my desk off every time I wanted to photograph my projects. So I thought that I would make a box that I could put the items in to photograph them.

I started off with two pieces of foamcore and a plastic corrugated sheet that came under a birthday cake.

I glued the two pieces of foamcore together using my lego angles to hold the pieces at a 90 degree angle.

I knew that the white surface would reflect the flash of the camera so I decided to wallpaper the walls. I printed some wall paper that I liked off the Internet and when I glued it on, it was terrible. Bubbles everywhere and when I tried to smooth them out the paper ripped as it was just too thin. So I had to rip it off and it did leave some gouges in the walls.

I then found some heavier scrapbooking paper that I hoped would cover the gouges.

I also heard that if you only wallpapered one side of foamcore it would warp so I also wallpapered the outside wall.

Then I had to cover the white floor and decided that I may as well go full way and do a hardwood floor and then I can use the box as a room as well. I covered the floor with Gesso so that the wood would stick to it. When I was trial fitting the sticks, the white showed through the cracks.

This will never do! So I got some brown paint and mixed it in the gesso and painted that on the floor as an undercoat. Then I glued down the floor and varnished it.

At this point, I looked at the box and realized that I now had a neutral room that I could use for scenes as well as for photographing my projects. And if I am going to use it in scenes, I do not want a lot of white edges showing. So I searched in my stash of stuff and managed to find some trim that was left over from my dollhouse and I used that to finish off the room.

I now have a box that is very versatile and can be used in many ways. By adding doors or windows and paintings etc. that can be changed I can set up scenes without taking up a lot of space. (Which I do not have.) I also have a place to photograph my mini creations that will hide my cluttered desk.