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DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate

DIY Crafts· Fall· Holidays

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Plaid®. All opinions are my own! 

I don’t know about you but I am certainly enjoying my pumpkin spice latte’s a whole lot more with the cooler temps! Sometimes it’s super hard as a blogger to just enjoy the current season because wealways  try to work one season ahead. Basically when I think about my “business” I’m totally absorbed in all things Christmas, but personally I just want to look at pumpkins and bake pumpkin pie with my coffee in hand. Today’s going to be a personal day though as I share our new DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with you that so beautifully holds my imperfect pumpkins!

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

This is a great day project that only requires some paint and a stencil. While this crate is the perfect fall addition, it can easily transition through the different seasons. I always try to make sure my projects can make that change because it eliminates how much stuff I have to store.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Supplies: 

Take a peek at this inspirational catalog and see what all FolkArt has to offer!

DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate

As you can see everything I used for this project comes from FolkArt®. I love how all these products work together! Let’s get started!

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Apply the FolkArt® Painted Finishes in Barnwood to the wooden crate following the application instructions on the bottles. Let this dry.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Dry Brush the White Adirondack FolkArt® Home Decor™ Chalk over the barnwood finish.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

As you can see above this allows the barnwood Painted Finish to show through the white Home Decor™ Chalk. But in the middle of this step I decided I actually wanted the crate to be more white, but I do love this look so you could stop here if you want. I ended up applying another coat of the white Home Decor™ Chalk. You can still see through it, but it offers that white look I was going for.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Once this is dry you are ready to stencil! These stencils are so easy to use, I just held it in place while I painted it on, but if you prefer you can always tape it down. As you can see my brushes get quite a bit of use!! ; )

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

I added the main stencil on the side of the crate, and then embellished the sides as well with other parts of the stencil package.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Once everything is dry you are ready to start using your new Fall Farmhouse Crate!

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

For more ideas and inspiration, be sure to visit Plaid® online, and connect with them on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Create this beautiful DIY Fall Farmhouse Crate with a ready made crate, paint and a stencil. The perfect way to provide a farmhouse feel to your Fall Decor.

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About Ashley

Ashley is a stay at home mom to three beautiful children. She and her husband recently settled in the Midwest after spending the beginning of their marriage in Texas (what a change!). Together they are raising their children, and turning their house into a home one project at a time. Ashley enjoys decorating and crafting, but her true passion lies in redoing old furniture and making things look old.

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  2. Jolene says

    Thanks for sharing the farmer’s market box tutorial. I try to do the same thing as you–create things/buy things that I can use again and again in different ways, do to limited storage. This is another one of those pieces. I really appreciate the step-by-step tutorial and the recommendations on the paint color. That takes some of the guess work out of it for me.

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  5. Cherryl Ehlenburg says

    This is perfect! I already have a crate that I painted a chalky white, but that’s as far as I got. And I actually already have the stencil you used! I was going to do it differently, but I like yours better, so thank you for your inspiration!

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  9. here says

    I completely agree! It’s so easy to get caught up in the business aspect of blogging and forget to enjoy the present moment. It’s important to take a step back and appreciate the current season and all the wonderful things it has to offer, like sipping on a delicious pumpkin spice latte and enjoying the cooler temps.

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