distressed crates and my boy

I bought some crates at JoAnns about a year ago—Wasn’t sure what to do with them, but I knew I liked them. Finally I spray painted one. It looked awful. And of course after I do something like that it becomes vividly clear what I should have done . And what that is is to stain them all. So I sanded some of the green-yellow off mostly because it would be extremely time consuming- and I’m completely impatient. Then I brushed a walnut stain over.

I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. And I’m pretty in love with this boy, who of course like any good boy would, thinks the carts are for him to ride in!

Before and                                                                                       After

Thankfully my handy husband helped me add hardware, because I also didn’t have patience for that!

I am just sick and tired of bookshelves looking like this

And with this handy crates the have the inability to fall! LOVE!

Asher is enjoying utilizing the new system. Any advice for the unfinished cart? I have two unfinished and was considering just doing a solid stain, but I’m open to opinions.