Mark Bryden (he/him)
I hope you’ve found a little inspiration to pick up a paint brush today and I hope that it’s one of my lovely and talented readers who gets to win that grand prize!.
As is common here at The Creek Line House, at least one picture inadvertently revealed a little of our ‘reality’, that is, reality of life with 2 young children.Let’s play spot the baby gate:.
Luckily this time, our reality generated a little interest and we received a few requests on how we salvage-DIYed our baby gate to cover such a large opening.This is a tough one to put into words and the success of the project – as with most salvage projects – is incredibly reliant on your access to the appropriate recycled components, but let’s give it a shot anyway:.For our DIY baby gate we used the 2 long identical sides from an old disassembled crib.
These particular parts worked well for 2 main reasons.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:.I hope you’re finding these little book-writing stories interesting and informative so far!
I think I’ll go back in time a little next time I share some of my book-writing adventures with you and talk a little about the actual writing of the book.Stay tuned for that!.
In case you missed them!.That one time when I wrote a book.