Good idea, better than timber for a maintenance free solution.wow, some great stuff on this thread, pics of a on outside bench i built, finished off with left over composite decking boards.
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.
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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