calling all crafters...

When my Memaw died I said I wanted her hand-crank gramophone - it's something she had bought in an antique store so it didn't really hold much value to her but growing up I always remembered it being in her house, next to her couch, and I liked to play with it while I watched TV. It's been at my parents house for all these years and I don't even know if I am going to ever take it from there BUT, just looking through different things online I cannot help but think it would be cute to repurpose it somehow as storage and paint it a fun color.

some repurposed items:

or like what I did with this cute little chair I found at a thrift store:

so the question is - what can I do with this?