Stain your crates by brushing on the stain and quickly wiping off the excess with a rag brush with the grain of the wood let dry.
How to hang a small crate on the wall.
Set your object down.
Clean up your wooden crates if needed.
When designing a feature wall of crates make sure not to stack crates one on top of the other.
Afterwards use sand paper to make the surface of the.
There are a variety of ways you can use wooden crates to create a built in but this application is one of the more impressive examples.
If needed attach a bit of wire mesh chicken wire across the bottom of the crate opening to keep the items from falling out.
Diy hanging shelves made of recycled wooden crates.
If you need the third screw install it after you have finished step 5.
Add a slight stagger and variation but just be sure all the weight is evenly balanced.
Here s a chic and very easy diy project to store and display anything on your walls.
Once the crates are mounted give them 2 good coats of the wood stain letting the crates dry in between coats.
This would work for any item that fit in the boxes.
Attach old crates to the wall to use to display them.
Plan your crate arrangement for your wall area and hang them using the appropriate hardware for the type of wall you re drilling into etc.
The first thing to do is mount the crates following the instructions.
When you find a stud mark it with a pencil.
The left and right screw below are the standard but the middle screw below is used for heavier object storage.
There are different sizes available for wooden.
It tightens the crate to the wall and offers more support.
Start by holding your object up against the wall where you want to hang it.
Find another stud across from the first one.
This will of course depend on the colour you want the wood to be but i wanted these to be fairly similar to the oak bench along the main wall.
Make a pencil mark at the top of your object.
I got these inexpensive crates at the craft store stained them and screwed them into the wall to make an eye.
Drill into wall leaving 1 2 inch exposed.
Use a stud finder on the wall according to the device s instructions.