Build Your Own Pottery Barn Inspired Vintage Trunk DIY
Building this DIY Pottern Barn inspired vintage trunk is easier than you think. You can have the wood cut at the home improvement store and use a hammer so no heavy duty tools are necessary. The hardware is a place where you can show your personality. Thanks to Red Cottage Chronicles for the idea.
If you have been visiting Red Cottage Chronicles for awhile you know that I embarked on a One Room Challenge where I had planned to complete a one room reno in six weeks. While I am way over the time limit, we are still working away on our little room and can’t wait to show you the finished space!
In the meantime I am super excited to share how we built this storage trunk to use as a coffee table when the room is finished.
It was inspired by the Rebecca Trunk from Pottery Barn. I must admit I could spend all day in Pottery Barn (and Williams Sonoma)! If I was going to get locked in a store overnight, either one of these stores would be okay with me. We don’t have a Pottery Barn close to us, so when I do get there, the family can drop me off and pick me up again when they are done shopping the rest of the mall!
It was a pretty easy build and although it doesn’t have all the hardware as the Pottery Barn version does, I think we get the same feel of a time worn vintage trunk!
We headed to our local Rona to pick up a sheet a (4 x 8) good one side 1/2 inch spruce plywood. We had to cut to our specifications at the store. I don’t mind if I have to pay for an extra couple of cuts when we are doing a project like this when it is crucial that the cuts are perfectly straight.
Our trunk measures 36 x 23 x 19 1/2 inches. Our cut list was as follows, but you can customize it to any size you wish. I laid it all out on a piece of paper to make sure we could get it all out of the one sheet.
2 @ 18 3/4″ x 32 3/4″ (for the sides)
2 @ 32 1/2″ x 19″ (1 for the top and 1 for the bottom)
2 @ 18 3/4″ x 18 3/4″ (1 for each end)
We also purchased 3 – 2 x 4 x 8’s and simply cut them to fit around the box as we did the build.
We started by building a rectangle box by first gluing each piece and then using a brad nailer to secure all the sides together.
Images from Red Cottage Chronicles.
For the full instructions visit Red Cottage Chronicles.
