Emma's Toy Box

When you don't have a child, you're used to having a semi tidy house, then you have a child and there just seems to never be enough time or energy to tidy. I started to find that toys were everywhere!!!

This started me on the search for a toy box or bag online. We started to use the good old IKEA blue bags for Emma’s toys. It was good but it just did not cut it. We could not find anything that we liked and then I found a design I liked and thought I could make something like that.

So I sketched a design, cut some pallets wood down to the size I wanted and sanded them smooth. All this I have done before as a landscape gardener.

Then I saw online that you can burn wood to give it a good effect. So after a few test burns I started the process and I’m happy to say that it worked out well. You burn the wood with a blow torch then us a wire brush to rake out the burnt wood to give it the effect. (I had to take the box apart though to burn, so I wasted a bit of time there.)

Once burned I reassembled and varnished it, put hinges, wheels and a lock on ready for Emma’s 1st birthday present. Her very own toy box and we all gained a coffee table!

All in all took it me about 2 weeks over a period of 3 months.