Hello Spring

Wooden Crate Tutorial:

Good morning! I hope you’ve all had a lovely week.

I have been loving all the pretty little flowers that have been surfacing recently. Especially the crocuses. For me, crocuses represent the coming of spring and all things sunny and fresh and warm. It also awakens that old cliché of needing to dust off your home and have a good old spring clean.

I live in a pretty small space, and as I’m sure will be familiar to most of you, it doesn’t take long for my newly tidied space to become pretty messy all over again! However I am currently on a little mission to try and de-clutter and re-organise, one little bit at a time.

Today’s mission was to try and create some more space and reorganise my chest of drawers/bedside table. My plan for this very simply involved a wooden crate, pretty paper, a ruler/pen, scissors, some glue and a little bit of hope that the plan would work! Wooden crates can be a very simple, easy and adaptable storage solution. So here’s how I got on!

This was how my chest of drawers started out… A little Cluttered…Trust me this is it on a good day!

Just on a sneaky side note, how lush are these door knobs?!

Anyway back to it! I purchased this blank crate in Hobbycraft for £8 which I thought was a bit of a bargain. I love the washed wood look for the sides but the bottom looked a little scruffy and bland.

So I got to thinking of how to pretty-fy it. I selected some lush paper and drew round the base of the box as an easy sizing starting point.

I then measured the widths of the sides of the crate and used a ruler to accurately map the base of the crate on the paper. To make sure the corners are accurate I measured the corner piece as shown below and transferred it onto the paper.

I then repeated this process for both sides of the corner piece, before cutting out the measured lines.

Once cut out, I used some Pritt stick to secure the perfectly fitting paper in place. One bland looking crate turned into a very pretty one! And all in about 10 minutes!

The perfect little afternoon project and an ideal little excuse for a craft sesh when you should be doing more tidying up!! My challenge now is to not fill the space I’ve created with random other stuff!!