Repurposed: Wooden box

[unapam]

Can anyone guess what this wooden box is going to be when I am finished with it? ...and before anyone suggests it the answer is not ....EMPTY :-)

Update: it is made and I will be adding a photo soon....It is a Bat box...Thanks to all who made some great suggestions.

[Bawnie]

Postbox?? Good luck with the transformation!

[berni]

A Spice Rack

A bird feeder

A plant holder

[unapam]

What great ideas...I wish I had a dozen of them! I'll give a hint to help you guess...It will be outside. But not any of the already guessed.

[kilk]

can i help you empty it!

[unapam]

I'll save one for you! What colour do you like? Actually the pic is misleading. they are mini bottles. Not that that will help you guess. I thought you Kilk would get it straight away...

[kilk]

ill have the middle one!! thanks unapam.

i didn't really give it much thought, got distracted with bottles! what size is the box?

[Andy94]

A garden tool holder Best of luck with it what ever it is P.S whoever gets it right should get the contents LOL

[mar754]

A post box

[Butterflyj]

Bird Feeder

Egg Press (you need one now that you put the stationary in the other)

Coaster holder

[mollydolly271]

a window box???

[Wisteria]

A nesting box.... with curtains for privacy!

A place where the milk man can put his deliveries.

[unapam]

What an inventive bunch you all are! Those are great ideas. I'll just have to buy more boxes of wine to make all of them! I really love the idea of flowers growing in it and hanging it from a tree. That would be lovely.

Anyway it just goes to show that if you put your mind to it there are MANY uses for an ordinary piece of packaging that would otherwise be discarded.

I'll give another hint every time someone gives a guess...

It will be of benefit to wildlife,

[durran]

Bird table ?

[berni]

A bird house

[Higgeldy]

A Ladybird House?

Seen them in catalouges, seems that ladybirds are the way to go!

Best of luck, I love logging on to see your pictures!

[kilk]

suppose i'll have to ask again... what size is the box unapam?

[unapam]

Hi, it measures 34 x24 x 6cm and will have more wood added to it to make this. In fact - three wooden placemats. It will have an apex roof made from these placemats and it wont be painted as these creatures don't like the fumes.

[kilk]

ok a guess... a bat house!

[unapam]

***********Yes, Kilk - you got it! A bat house.*************
I have bats living in the attic of the cottage and this is the recommended way to get them out without harming them. (Bats are a protected species) I will keep you updated as to progress

....and Kilk wins!......a free bat ;-)

[kilk]

oooh ta....where's me bottles??

[unapam]

Eh...they are in...eh the eh....bottle bank!

[Chris P]

oooh ta....where's me bottles??
Well done, kilk!

Guess-work is thirsty work. All things considered, a bottle of what's below seems appropriate...

[kilk]

yur speech is slurred unapam... care to explain... hmmmmm.

[kilk]

well done Chris P., take you to come up with it!!!

[andrewm4740]

flower pot? hanging flower pot. maby your dead hamsters coffin jk jk . or something to do with your shed

[andrewm4740]

sorryy didnt see the second page

[unapam]

I demand a stewards inquiry!!!

Kilkie, I think you had inside information! You know I have bats in the attic!
Chris, leave it to you to find the perfect prize for Kilkie.

Can I disqualify Kilk and make a coffin for a hamster like Andrew said?

[unapam]

This is what a bat house looks like. As you can see this box is nearly there already.

And this is what my bats look like. This one was found hanging from my tab top curtains in my batroom..sorry, I mean bathroom. Now you know why I need a bathouse for the garden.
Bats are harmless creatures and eat oodles of insects so are good to have around...just not inside the house.

[kilk]

perhaps they would relocate to your brown bin. ill give you a few garden stones to help them settle, and a nice piece of delph for you to smash if they don't!

[unapam]

Thanks Kilk. Only joking...you are the winner! I O U a bottle of wine!

[erica]

I hope your bats wont be looking for relocation expenses, or disturbance money Unapam!

[Ruthy]

very cool! Where did you find the instructions? I want to make bat boxes and bumble bee boxes for my garden. (and would like to encourage the swallows to nest in a different shed....so they poop on things I don't care about....)

Ruth

[kilk]

thanks unapam, ill bring two glasses!

[kilk]

(and would like to encourage the swallows to nest in a different shed....so they poop on things I don't care about....)

Ruth

i found the only way to get them to move was to keep knocking down their efforts at nest building, don't disturb a built nest tho cos it may contain eggs.

i used to have an open water tank in my shed and guess where they decided to build! mind you i discovered that swallows especially young ones can't swim!!

[ellalucia]

i bet you turn it back into a tree.

[unapam]

I got the design from the Internet. Lots of them out there...some very simple and some..not.
This box needs little adjusting to make it into a bat house. I heard them talking on Mooney radio show today about bats in the attic and all agreed they are no harm. They will be leaving for their hibernation soon. I will be putting up the bat house for them to come back to next summer.

My only problem with them was that a few managed to get into the house through cracks and openings in unplastered ceilings and some were attacked by my yorkshire terriers and killed. Two got into the house and could not get out or back to attic and died while I was not here. Some others I managed to return to the wild (located just outside the front door) But it was not a task I relish doing again. *they squeal like pigs when you nudge them into a bucket. Then you have to run like an Olympian to get outside. Aaaggghhh!

[abbamaniac]

id say a bird table to feed the wild birds in the garden?

[mems]

a lined water trough [ easy to fill these days LOL

[newstemp]

An expo in Spain features a wall display made of 20,000 RedGreenBlue LED lights inside 30,000 wine bottles.

http://www.ledsmagazine.com/news/5/8/4

DH

[unapam]

It is finished now. A Bat house to accommodate the bats that keep roosting in my attic! I'll post a pic of it soon.

[zuess]

[QUOTE=unapam]What an inventive bunch you all are! Those are great ideas. I'll just have to buy more boxes of wine to make all of them! I really love the idea of flowers growing in it and hanging it from a tree. That would be lovely.

Hi if you go to the back of off licence shops there does be tons of these boxes and im sure if you went in and asked they'd give you some.

[Ruthy]

Do you have a photo of the finished bat box? My local wine shop said they will have lots around christmas!

[unapam]

Hi, I can't find the photo I took of it finished but I will take another one next week and post it. It turned out well and was easy to do.