I feel like that title doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but you’ll understand exactly what I mean in a minute! After seeing Thrifty Décor Chick and Christina’s Adventures trough’s, I knew that I had to have one. I just wanted mine to be a little bit different. The main difference was that I wanted sections to set my turquoise ball jars in rather than one long trough.
I roughly used their plans. I sort of remembered how they both made theirs and then I just winged it. If I had $5 for every time I winged a project, I would be rich by now. Seriously. A lot of winging it goes on around here.

The first thing you need to do is grab three boards and cut them the same length. I used some wood from old pallets that I had torn apart. I used my miter saw but you could definitely use a miter box and a saw.

I then stood up my pieces of wood to measure the end pieces and the two middle pieces. Basically, you will need 4 pieces of wood that are the same length. You could use a measuring tape. But I just hold my wood up there, grab a pencil and draw a line. Wayyyy easier than trying to figure out if you’ve got a quarter of an inch or sixteenth!

Next, grab some wood glue and put a generous amount on all of the sides that will touch another piece of wood. We have these handy dandy clamp things that work super awesome.

Now add your middle pieces. I just used a clamp in the middle of both of them to make sure the glue stuck really good.

I grabbed some Ebony stain that we had and gave it a quick coat. It wasn’t perfect because I knew I would be painting it.

Right after I stained it, I painted it white. I didn’t wait for the stain to dry at all. This kid of helps it look a little more rough. I only put one coat of white. And yes, I did got back and paint the inside.

Take some sandpaper and rough it up to your hearts content. I wanted it to look really chippy and old. The Ebony color stain is perfect showing through!

The last thing I did was add furniture pads to the bottom so that it wouldn’t scuff up my dining room table.








And there you have it! This project probably took me less that 2 hours total to complete.
You CAN do this even if you don’t have any power tools!!