Wooden Placemats: Dare I DIY?

by Leah

I love these wooden placemats from Crate and Barrel (the ones made of circles of wood on the far right).

What I don't love is that they're $14 each and I use placemats approximately 1.3 times per year and would instead like to get a big old stack of them and hang them on a wall as art.

Can I make my own? (Meaning: Can I make my husband make these for me?) If we cut some wooden dowels to the same thickness and then stuck them together with wood glue, would that even work?

Or is this crazytalk that would cost us WAY more effort and frustration than would make up for simply handing over a debit card to the nice clerk at C&B and peacefully parting with $14 per mat?

I think I know the answer. Save me from myself.

{Photo credit: crate&barrel.com}

Comments

[auntie]

I'm sure it could be done, but I'm thinking the amount of time it would take sanding each little piece and then making sure there weren't glue puddles in between each piece would make me crazy! For your sanity, I vote for coughing up the $14 :)

[meaghan]

If I were going to do it, I would hot glue them to some sort of backing. But I also think it would be a pain to do.

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