Automatic box expander
Vim, 7 bytes

♥GYPjYp


where ♥ is Control-V.

           The cursor starts on the first non-whitespace character of the first line.
♥G         Enter visual block mode and go to bottom of document.
  YP       Duplicate this column.
    j      Move down to the second line of the file.
     Yp    Duplicate this line.