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Storage Crate Seat

October 22, 2011 by Laura 8 Comments

Here’s more proof that I do more than spend endless hours surfing the internet. Not that I DON’T spend countless hours online…daily…but every now and then I actually DO something with what I’ve learned online. 🙂

For example, I found instructions for this awesome project on A Day in the Life of Miss Kranz via Pinterest and thought it would make a really cool gift so I convinced Handy Andy to help me make one for us to try it out first.

Storage Crate Seat

 

Storage Crate Seat

 

Cute AND functional, no? I love it. Plus it’s a good size for Little Miss to use. I made one for a special someone for Christmas another for our bathroom; it will save my poor knees when giving Kayden a bath and I figure she can use it as a step stool to wash her hands and brush her teeth when she’s a little older. ♄

I won’t rehash the instructions (you can see those on the blog I mentioned) but I will give you some tips on what worked for me:

  • Use SMALL staples in your staple gun – It really boosted my self-esteem when we got smaller staples as I could not for the life of me use the staple gun on my own with the longer staples. 🙁 I had to enlist my muscle man but was quite happy when I found a way to do it myself!
  • Save some $ on the filling – For our first one I used a stack of scrap fleece material and it worked out really well! For the subsequent seats I got a foam Matress Pad at Wal-Mart for like $15, which is similar to the material you can get at a fabric store but A LOT less expensive!

What do you think?

P.S. Leave a comment if you would like an invitation to join Pinterest, I hear it takes weeks if you request to join without an existing member!

 

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  1. Jenay

    December 15, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    That’s an ingenious way of thinking about it.

    Reply

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