tea light holder.
For our DIY baby gate we used the 2 long identical sides from an old disassembled crib.These particular parts worked well for 2 main reasons.
First, the upper and lower rails were very close to square and secondly, the spindles were not wider than these upper and lower rails.. (These are the ideal dimensional consistencies to work with and require no modifications.If the spindles are wider than the rails, the rails will need to be widened using strips of wood or if the rails are round or curved then straight strips of wood would need to be attached.).For this tutorial I will refer to these as “crib sides” however, you may find other reclaimed materials that meet the above criteria regardless of their use in a previous life.. For our project we used the following hardware:.
4 appropriately sized “L” brackets (we used 1.5″ x 1.5″).Size needs to be at least 1.5 times the width of the top rail and no more than double.. 2 appropriately sized “U” bolts (we used 2″x 5″).
Sizing here is tricky and may require a trial and error approach so buy and few and save your receipt..
Finally, replace the regular nuts that come with the u-bolt with wing-nuts..If you’ve got some pieces that need updating, and you want to do it quickly and have really beautiful results, I’d definitely suggest Black Dog Salvage Furniture Paint!.
Actually, Chris was working on a little project recently and was having a little trouble with getting the finish to look decent.I had him use this paint finally after he’d tried a few other things that he wasn’t happy with and he loved it.
I think it pained him a little to admit that I was right, but I think we’ll both definitely be using this paint more often now, especially for tricky jobs!.Do you have any furniture pieces that you’ve been wanting to update with paint?.