Okay, finally carved this baby down to a manageable size.
(And since the various Proofgrades that we have to work with are different thicknesses, it took a couple of iterations to pull off the effect I wanted.)
I did away with the fancy insides and went with a straight lift the lid off and drop the batteries in…it uses less wood, and takes less time to load. (It’s also a lot easier to build.)
I think it turned out looking a little bit like a building, so the continuation of the battery boxes will be others of different heights…a slightly shorter one for the AAA bats, and maybe a low one with a pull out drawer for the 9 volts. Maybe make it look like a little cityscape. (Slightly different lid treatments?) We’ll have to see what they want to do.
Those look great! I’m constantly turning around looking for batteries at our house, and this kind of thing would TOTALLY help clean-up our random odds-&-ends drawer in the kitchen. I love the idea for creating a cityscape out of these too—such a great idea!
What an awesome idea! I need these for so many things around the house like cans of food, batteries, toilet paper… ok, maybe not the last one but still, might not be a bad idea.