Thank you Keith for causing me to ponder other uses for mouldings.
I checked my list of things still to be designed for my home and have now finally come up with a great idea that solves one of my design quandaries!
I love the idea of reed diffusers to fragrance a room and a while back I obtained a user authorisation certificate from HMRC so that I can purchase up to 20 litres of Denatured Ethyl-Alcohol a year and found a supplier for the reeds in bulk so that I can make my own using organic essential oils which will give me total control over the resulting scent, which I can change as and when I want and use different scents for different rooms etc.
I had been thinking of making ‘boxes’ for the bottles to sit in for quite a while now but I am not particularly keen on
the way the reeds splay out from the neck of the bottle.
I want my containers to match up with other stuff in the rooms and so I loved the idea of using moulding at the top and bottom of the ‘boxes’.
To get this effect I will cut the mitres of the moulding with the rebate at the top or bottom rather than facing out on my mitre saw so that the moulding forms a base for the box at the bottom keeping the box raised from the surface I place it on, preventing any damage from any solution that gets spilled, and a matching ornate decoration for the top of the box.
I then got to think that what I need is a square jar rather than a bottle with a narrow neck and
I just found the perfect item!
I have emailed the company to find out the diameter of the round top to the jar. My intention is to cut two squares from 5mm foam core or soft timber. Having taken the smaller ‘square’ within the round jar top I will drill a grid of holes in both pieces and then separate them with spacers far enough apart to keep the reeds straight.
I can then put my fragrance in the jar, push the bottom grid down over the jar which will prevent too much evaporation and place my reeds through the holes which will stand up from the finished box in a square formation!
AND I can have them to match the mouldings I use in those rooms and even cover the outside of the boxes in fabrics I have used in the rooms.
This will definitely be a project for my ‘Colour It You’ YouTube tutorials.
So thank you again for posing this question
