DIY 3 Tiered Chíc Rolling Cart
Hi there! I have been tossing around whether or not to share this DIY 3 Tiered Chíc Rolling Cart with you. I am going to be honest I didn’t take pictures of every single step. It was one of my first projects and I was still on the fence with starting my blog. So I guess I just wasn’t very serious about taking photographs. But through my journey I have come to realize how important it is to include them as much as possible. It really gives you great insight on each step. And so I have been trying my best to capture as much of the execution as possible with all other projects. But the question still lingered about what to do with this particular project.
After much contemplation, I realized that I could not keep this project from you. It is my duty to show you, any possible way I can, how to Chíc up your home. And my failure to capture all steps should not prohibit this. But I still wanted to be able to show you visually, how each step went. So I kind of created pictures of some of the steps, using the finished project. I apologize for this, but please bare with me, because this is a great piece. And it is not only very simple to make but also fairly inexpensive for the piece it is. Let me show you just how simple it was.
On To The Project
I have been slowly transforming my garage into my workshop. It is a one care garage so I’m trying to take advantage of every square inch as possible. Their was a broken dresser in their taking up precious space so I had to get it out. But as I was throwing it to the curb side, I realized I could make something great out of it. Well out of most of it. I grabbed all 5 drawers and brought them back into my garage/workshop.
Only three drawers were needed for this project. I started by taking the handles off them and filling the screw holes with wood filler. The wood filler shrinks a bit while drying so I made sure to do a second application. Once the filler had sufficient amount of time to dry, I sanded down the whole drawer. I started with an 80 grit sand paper and ended with a 220 grit. This gives it a nice smooth finish.
I purchased 3 different items for this project. They included four caster wheels, two ten foot 1×2 piece of wood and 3 drawer handles. I want to tell you about the type of wood I purchased. I bought 1×2 furring strips. Now furring strips are a bit beat up and can be very crooked and lopsided. But if you really dig through the pile, you an find some great pieces for the price. If you go to the next best type of 1×2, which I find to be Select Pine, there is about a $2 difference. That is huge. Also I could of went with 1×2 furring strip at eight feet, but I love having extra pieces of wood and it was only a $.13 difference. Which brings this project to a mere total cost of about $17 w/tax. I already had the rest of the necessities in my arsenal.
After prepping the drawers, I determined the height I wanted my rolling cart to be-38 inches. Next, I grabbed my 1×2’s and cut 4 pcs at my desired height minus the 2 inches for the height of the casters. This came to 4 pieces at 36 inches each. After giving the cut pieces a quick sanding, I then used my brad nailer to attach them to my drawers. I placed two of them on each side of the drawers. One towards the front and one towards the back with the dresser drawers equal lengths apart, nailing from the inside of the drawer as to hide the nail heads.
I grabbed a piece of 1X4 that I had laying around and cut into two pieces to fit into the bottom of the rolling cart. A quick sand and I attached it using my brad nailer as well. This was added to give the cart more bottom support and further clearance to attach the casters to. Then I painted my rolling cart with Rust-oleum chalk paint, in country gray. I put two coats of paint on this piece allowing it to dry sufficiently between coats. I also decided to go with an antique finish for my rolling cart. To get this effect I used the Rust-oleum decorative glaze in smoked glaze finish. Then to protect all my hard work I put a couple of coats of polyurethane.
All that was need now where the caster wheels and the drawer handles. I placed the casters on the bottom of the cart in each corner. As for the drawer handles I started attaching them by pre-drilling holes in the middle of each drawer front. I like to predrill as much as possible, to avoid the wood from splitting. After the holes where pre-drilled I simply screwed on the drawer handles. And wa…la…. this master-piece was complete.
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With Love,
Melissa
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