Good idea, better than timber for a maintenance free solution.
This is a project ive started,yet to finish, and I really need to make a few changes to to give it a proper use.
A bit back a local shop closed down and the builder dumped fittings, odds and ends in the skip. I got two old soft drinks crates, probably from about the 70's Irn Bru.
So what to do with an irn bru crate.
This was my idea
It's too low just to put an upholstered board on as a stool, but to use it for that, and make use of its internals for storage i needed to lift it up to a decent level.
So have taken 4 tall Irn Bru drinks cans. Wrapped them in 3m helicopter tape to preserve the painted/printed logos, with the notion to use them as feet/legs.
I think the few pics i took at the time will explain how i went about this.
(you can see it in the 5th pic down in the background through the bottom of the crate) looking to retain the compartments as maybe some sort of drinks cabinet, but it became too convoluted and in truth it was losing its ability to act as a store for anything else, so my next idea is to remove the majority of the bottle compartments, line it with the irn bru livery blue in felt covered board and it have a simple lid, upholstered in the same blue vinyl as a seat cover.The idea has worked out pretty well, but the 4 tall cans full of concrete has made the entire thing pretty heavy, perhaps too heavy. But i still like the overall design, especially the legs, they make for a nice touch.
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