Making a desk featuring old wooden crates

Step 4 Imperfection

I like the "Brass Fittings" scribbled over the prune box label and "Seamer" written on the salmon roe box. In fact, the "Chevron Blazo fuel" crate is too clean and kind of stands out to me. Obviously each crate will be pretty unique. I could probably have dirtied up the clean box a bit myself. Quite apparent in this picture is the differing widths and the gaps. I could have put a board on the very bottom that would have closed the gap at the top. A short 2x2 will close up the gap on the side of the top drawer too. But these imperfections are part of the charm for me.