Summer Bucket List: Crate Seats!

they must be comfy, right?!

This has got to be my favorite project so far! It was also the most frustrating, and required the most store trips! Here are my finished crate seats:

And here are all the steps I took to make them:

1. Get 6 crates at Target

2. Take crates to Home Depot to get plywood cut

3. Have Home Depot tell you they are too flimsy

4. Leave Home Depot in tears

5. Take crates back to Target

6. Get 6 new (sturdier) crates at Walmart

7. Go back to Home Depot, have wood cut down to size, and get staplegun

8. Go to Joann Fabric’s to pick out enough fabric for 6 crates

9. Have your mother fly in and bring foam from Michigan

10. Go to your father-in-laws to borrow a sander

11. Sand down both sides of the wood and all four edges

12. Sand down the corners so they are rounded and fit in the crates better

13. Cut foam to be the same size as the boards

14. Spray boards with spray adhesive

15. Stick foam to board

16. Lay fabric right side down on the floor

17. Center the board on top of the fabric with the foam facing down

18. Staple one side of the fabric to the board

19. Rotate the board and do the opposite side

20. Do the two other two sides

21. Fold over the corners like a present and staple

22. Staple on a ribbon loop for a handle

23. Repeat for two more crates

24. Have staple gun break

25. Go back to Home Depot and get new stapler

26. Finish other three crates.

So let’s see, that’s - 3 Home Depot trips, a Walmart trip, a Joann’s Trip, and two target trips. No wonder it took us three days to finish these! Good thing my mom is a good sport!!!