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It should have been a no-brainer, done-in-3-minutes type of post.

But seriously, saving those precious seconds made all the difference between me putting off doing the job for weeks and months and actually enjoying getting it done in just a weekend!.Tip #4: Semi-gloss paint will make you happy.

I used 2 coats of a medium-high quality paint on them and no primer and they look stunning.Tip #5: Be ready to get messy!Seriously, when I first started out painting, I wrapped my pretty new sawhorses in plastic wrap to try to keep them clean.

You can see how well that lasted.Moving the boards around and switching to new boards just did not make it possible to keep the plastic wrap on.

The fact that the edges are a little curved and need to be painted since they’ll show a little bit leads to lots of drips.

Set up somewhere you can make a mess and just run with it!.The best thing about this little “project” (if you can call it that), is that you don’t need to take it apart at all!

In fact, if there are a few boards loose from you trying to pull them out, go ahead and get a hammer and pound them back into place.If you have a really old one with a few boards missing, that’ll work just fine too!.

All you’ll need to do is take it into whatever room you store your wrapping paper in, stand it up next to the wall, and you have a perfect little “bin” to hold all your rolls of wrapping paper.And it only takes up about 5″ of space off the wall..