on here as well and I love the way they look in the room with all of the other fabrics I used in here.. Can you spy that extra little plug hanging there on the tree?

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’re lucky enough to be working with similar materials to what we had, assembly is super easy.

First step will be to mark the area on each crib side where they are likely to overlap when in use.. Next, attach the l-brackets comfortably within the marked area on one of the crib sides; 2 on the top and 2 on the bottom.So all the ideas that I’m showing you today are really kind of “set it and forget it” types of ideas.

They’re “do it once and enjoy it all season” kind of things, mostly.I like to use lots of leafy greens, like hostas or soloman’s seal in my vases instead of flowers because they last almost literally forever.

I mostly leave the flowers for outside so I’m not having to change water and deal with dead flowers every few days and I stick with faux flowers instead.Unless it’s peony season.