Rustic Outdoor Cooler Plans

Building the rustic cooler frame.

Rustic outdoor cooler plans.

Connect each 2 4 with 2 1 2 inch screws. Glue around tube on inside of cooler to seal. This woodworking project was about wooden cooler plans. Either way you can build a wooden enclosure that s attractive and sturdy.

If you want to see more outdoor plans we recommend you to check out the rest of our step by step projects. Rustic outdoor cooler stand wood pallet. Use the cooler as a template or measure the cooler to determine how long to cut these boards. Posted in furniture stand.

There are even have plans for picnic tables or an outdoor grill prep table with built in ice chests. How to build a planter box. David wirth my personal blog about photography tv links plants motorcycles computers vacations and things i make diy. Remove all the hardware from the cooler.

Cut off any excess tube on the inside of the cooler. Lay the plastic cooler in between the legs again to determine the size of the front and the back. While we wanted a rustic look i don t want anyone getting injured. After this step is complete you can not remove the cooler from the frame.

I hit the entire surface of the deck cooler with a 3m sanding block in a 60 grit. It s a rustic outdoor design with a trough for the cooler. This diy table plan was built from pine and painted for just under 75 because the stainless steel trough was made by a friend for free. With the plastic cooler in place add a piece of fence post to the bottom of the plastic cooler for support.

Now it s time to start building the rustic cooler legs and frame. Assemble the frame for the cooler out of 2 4 boards. You can make it as snug as you d like. I used a 50 quart igloo cooler for this project and dry fit the slats to see how many i d need to cut.

I m not the first person to build this kind of cooler. They estimated that it may cost up to 375 if a similar tray or trough is purchased. Free wooden ice chest plans use an old refrigerator as the inside of your ice chest or use a simple plastic cooler as the basis. I left about a half inch of play on each side to make it easy to remove the cooler if needed.