It’s a pretty easy pattern with a circle at the bottom an then a rectangular piece of fabric for the length of the bag. And by whipped up I mean my Mom whipped it up! I grabbed a bit of duck canvas (which is a lighter weight canvas than you would find in a drop cloth but still sturdy and machine washable) and whipped up a laundry bag. Okay so now that our rolling laundry bin is pretty much finished we have one last step… adding a laundry bag! In order to prevent that from happening with my wheels I drilled pilot holes with a drill bit before adding the screws in! Step 4: The Laundry Bag! I found that placing them right behind the curved side of the wood round was the perfect compromise!īonus Tip: I noticed when stapling that certain parts of my wood round were really tough and the staples didn’t want to enter the wood. Keep in mind that you want them close enough to the edge that the ball and brass will show when the laundry cart is fully assembled BUT not so close to the edge that the screws will peek through the wood round on the other side. Then go ahead and use your power drill to screw them in place. Luckily they’re pretty easy to put in… go ahead and put all four in place so that you can decide on the perfect spacing. So when I planned out this little laundry hamper with wheels I knew the perfect set of wheels to try! These brass wheels are pretty dang cute… I fell in love with them a couple of projects ago and ordered 4 sets so that I would have plenty for future projects. ![]() *cough cough* Don’t ask me how I know that. Apparently this wood round has seams where it was put together and a staple in a strategically placed joint will split your wood round right down the middle. Just make sure that you put a hand under neath the wood round before you start hammering… the wire fencing will bend if you put too much pressure on it! PLUS you’ll want to gently tap with the hammer so that the staples don’t split your wood round apart. That’s okay just take a hammer and gently tap those staples down until they’re flush with the rest of the wood round. ![]() This should make everything super sturdy… and hold the wood round perfectly in place.īonus Tip: The T50 is a super sturdy staple gun but some of my staples had a hard time pushing the wire fencing allllll the way down to the wood round. Go ahead and give each rectangular box four staples: one in each of the bottom corners and one on each side near the edge of the wood round. Then you can grab your staple gun ( I decided on my T50 staple gun from Arrow for this project since it’s professional grade and will really hold everything in place). Now this is the fun part! Go ahead and fold all of those rectangles down so that they’re flush with the wood round. This will give you a row of free standing rectangles alllllll the way around the circle! Step 2: Staple the Wire Frame to your Wood Round! This particular wire fencing is made up of rectangles so what you want to do is clip out the bottom section of every other rectangle… around the entire wire cage. Now you’re going to start clipping the very bottom sections of your wire fencing. At this point you’re just checking to make sure that the wire cage is the right size for your wood round. Now it’s time for the bottom! Go ahead and place your wooden round into the wire fence cage you’ve created… or is it more of a wire tube? Either way you get the picture. Go ahead and bend the wire over along the entire seam so that you have a round cage of wire fencing. Now all you have to do is fold those little pieces of wire back on themselves to create a seam! Squeeze them tight with your pair of pliers and your seam should be pretty dang strong. See the picture below? I cut the wire just past where the two edges meet so I have a bit of wire left over. ![]() Go ahead and cut one square box past where the two ends meet. Basically if you wrap the wire fencing all the way around the wood round you’ll reach a point where the fencing meets the end of the fencing. It’s a little confusing to read but fairly straight forward in real life. Make sure to over lap the ends just a bit since you’ll need a bit of that wire to fold over and make the seam. Ready to get started? Wrap your piece of wire fencing around the wood round so you know exactly where to cut. Once you’ve stained (or painted) that wood round make sure to let it dry because you’ll need it in step one (and no body has time to be playing around with wet stain all over their hands). Which is my fancy way of saying that if you want to stain (or paint) your wood round now is the time! I grabbed an old rag and stained my wood round with a dark walnut stain so that it would have a rustic warm wood feel! Prep Work: Okay y’all before we get started on all of the steps we need to do a little bit of prep work.
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