My wife had a stash of old seed sacks laying around. I decided to make a wall display from one of them using some old lumber. She is going to hang it up on stairway to the basement.
Biscuits......pocket holes.....spit? Duct tape? Oh, and I'm not showing my wife. We don't have a stairwell so I may be safe. She pretty much has/will have any wall space accounted for. I like it, however you put it together.
Nothing too fancy. L brackets in the back of the frame to square it up. Then I used 1/4" plywood for the backing material for the sack then attached plywood to the frame with a 1/4" crown stapler. Not fancy...rough lumber. My kind of project. Next time I may try the spit and duct tape idea.
Nice looking display, but I should have saved you some... When I ripped open the walls of this house, I found they had lined the inside of the walls with seed and fertilizer bags. There were thousands of them, sometimes (6) layers thick to try to keep out the Maine cold. Nice work!
From 1930-1980 it was okay I suppose, but in 1980 my Grandparents had spray-in insulation blown in. It was the type where they drilled holes through the exterior siding, then filled up the cavity. However, with the fertilizer bags stapled to the inside, they never filled the cavity. It really was a complete waste of money for my Grandparents. We saw that when we removed the drywall and insulated and installed wiring. It actually boggled my mind, my Grandparents would pump (literally) (2) 275 gallon drums of #2 heating oil to heat this house a year, or some 6 cord of wood, when in contrast Katie and I spent $490 in insulation to make it super insulated. BTW: The original Mortgage in 1930 was a house, a HUGE barn, and 200 acres of land for $1,400.
Oh man schlot ................your wife missed this one! she could've made a shirt or dress or something out of it!! (looks nice!)
Pretty cool. We have a few framed old fruit and vegetable crate labels in the kitchen. Old framed seed packets are interesting to. I'm on Pintrest, I'll admit it. No shame.
Here is the back of the frame. The brackets keep the outside of the frame tight, but the staples through the 1/4 plywood is the real strength and keeping it square.
