Crate Project

I have had a crate sitting in my bathroom for months. I had many plans for it when I bought it, but it just ended up being my toilet paper holder (I like to buy the big packs of TP and then I have nowhere to store them....).

Last week I finally decided to buy some sandpaper and figure out what I was going to transform it into. I had a can of stain that had been sitting in my garage for three years and some stencils in a box of old wedding supplies from a year ago, so that was a solid start.

The whole crate was sanded down carefully with a medium grit sandpaper. After that, I applied the Mahogany stain with a brush and let it dry completely overnight.

The next day. I mixed up some green acrylic paint and tried to use a brush to apply it over the stencil. That was an epic fail. The paint kept pooling under the edges of the pattern and created a smudged mess no matter how little I applied, so I needed a Plan B.

Luckily, I had bought some paint pens the day earlier with a different purpose in mind, but I needed something a little easier to control. I traced the edge of the stencil and filled it in, then lifted the stencil and evened out the lines.

After a quick spray with a high gloss sealer, it was complete!! It still sits in my bathroom full of toilet paper, but it looks a lot less sad now that it's all prettied up :)