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The woodworking half of this project is almost incidental — a plain rectangular box frame from four 2x2 legs and twelve 1x3 crosspieces — and the actual storage mechanism is what gets strung across it afterward: rope, bungee cord, or elastic cord run corner to corner and side to side through eye screws, forming a stretchy net grid. Stuffed animals get pushed into the gaps in the grid and stay put on their own tension, no shelf, no bin, no lid.
The one place this build can't be sloppy is squareness: check both end assemblies' diagonals against each other and correct any mismatch by pushing the longer diagonal's corners together before you move on. A frame that's slightly out of square is merely cosmetic on most furniture, but here it directly throws off the spacing of the eye screws and the tension pattern of the whole net — an out-of-square frame makes stringing the rope a fight the whole way through.
Stain or paint the frame BEFORE stringing anything — once forty-some feet of cord and two dozen eye screws are in place, painting around all of it is a much worse job than painting a bare frame. This is meant to mount to a wall (the frame alone has no floor footprint to speak of), so plan the eye-screw layout with real anchoring in mind rather than as an afterthought.
| Item | Qty |
|---|---|
| 1x3, 8 ft | 2 each |
| 2x2, 8 ft | 2 each |
| Rope, bungee cord, or elastic cord | 40 ft |
| Rope clamps, 1/2" | 8 each |
| Screw eyes, #6Secures the rope or bungee at the crossing points. | 24 each |
| Self-tapping star bit wood screws, 1-3/4" | 30 each |
| Stain or paint | 1 qt |
Overall cost: $. Lumber prices vary by region, species, and season, so we give a band rather than a figure we would only be pretending to know.
| Part | Qty | T × W × L |
|---|---|---|
| Legs2x2 | 4 | 1 1/2" × 1 1/2" × 47 3/4" |
| Short crosspieces1x3 | 6 | 3/4" × 2 1/2" × 11 3/4" |
| Long crosspieces1x3Cut these first to conserve boards. | 6 | 3/4" × 2 1/2" × 19" |
Buy 7 boards at 8 ft.
4 boards
3 boards
Assumes 8 ft stock, a 1/8" saw kerf, and buying each part at its own width. Change the board size or kerf on the full board plan →
Attach the shorter 1x3 crosspieces to the 2x2 legs with screws, predrilling if needed to prevent splitting, and glue every joint.
Check each assembly for square by measuring the diagonals between opposite outside corners — the two diagonal measurements must match. If they don't, push the corners of the longer diagonal together until they do. This step matters more than it looks like it should: the whole rope grid's spacing depends on it.
Add the longer 1x3 crosspieces to the front and back, connecting the two end assemblies into a complete frame, using the same square-checking method as before.
Stain or paint the frame now, before any rope goes on — it's far easier to finish a bare frame than to work around forty feet of installed cord.
Install the screw eyes at your planned crossing points, then run rope, bungee, or elastic cord corner to corner and side to side to form a net-like grid, securing with the rope clamps. Mount the finished frame to a wall — it has essentially no floor footprint, so it depends on the wall anchoring for stability. Stuffed animals wedge into the grid gaps and stay put on their own tension.
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