Bedroom Nightstand!

We have been needing a nightstand in our bedroom for sometime now and I like eclectic pieces but that are still in a way organized so when I bought one of the wooden crates on clearance one of my thoughts was make it for our living room but after I made the distressed crate table I decided to leave that one in our living room and to make this one as a nightstand for our bedroom.

My husband spray painted the wooden crate using Satin Spray Paint in a Coral color. Once it was dry it took a bit of thought as to how to decorate it and I had just bought a cool stencil in a tree design so I thought to use Ivory chalk paint to make it on top and on the inside but as I did it on top I decided to do it in color on the bottom and it turned out better so I went over the ivory chalk one in color to match the other. Once the tree was painted I free hand painted a caterpillar, flower, cactus and then traced some birds on the side and inside of the crate a bit.

Now the legs for the nightstand are longer than the ones used for the living room table so we tried to use a screw driver to make a hole and screw it in but because of the way the legs were made we couldn’t get them to screw in correctly so we need to go back and fix them but even so it holds up just fine.

• Wooden Crate- $7 on clearance at Wal-Mart
• Satin Spray Paint in Coral Color- $3.96 at Wal-Mart
• Early American Table Legs-$2.98 each at Menards
• 2 ounce Bottle Ivory Chalk Paint- $1.68 at Wal-Mart
• Acrylic Paints- $0.50 to a few dollars at Wal-Mart
• Tree Stencil- $2 at Jo-Ann’s