-1 teaspoon of salt.
The sides are pieces of the same 1×10 board, cut to 18″ long with a little triangle notched out.The angle of the triangle doesn’t really even matter, just eyeball it with the mitre saw and then finish off the cut with a handsaw.
Do that for both leg pieces..The front pieces are just 1×4 boards cut to 34″ long with little 45 degree triangles notched out of the ends on both sides..5 minutes later and you have all your pieces cut!.
Attach the front apron pieces to the top with some wood glue and nails, then flip the whole thing over.. Chris cut these little triangles out of some scrap wood and used those along with some wood glue and nails to attach the leg pieces on.If you’re not as confident with a saw as he is, I’d suggest just grabbing a few basic metal brackets while you’re at the hardware store buying your wood.. Something like this:.
Let all your wood glue dry and you’re ready to go!.
I finished mine by using some dark wood stain and a few different colors of paint to make it look like it’s really been around.I sewed on these little metal conduit pieces for handles.
They’re the same ones I used when I made my.Cereal Box Magazine Organizers.
The bins are soft-sided, so they look better full, but they have a plasicky coating on the inside, so that helps give the burlap a little extra weight.. As good as they look sitting in front of that brick wall, they actually live in these little cubbies for now, at least until we get our built-ins put up along this wall.So yeah, for the next 12 years or so, they’ll stay like this..