Lay the front piece of wood on a flat surface in a diagonal position.
License plate roof birdhouse.
Bend license plate on center mark.
The little blue birdhouse in the photo is a good example featuring a license plate roof a vintage cabinet handle for an awning and a picket fence cuts from the slats of a pallet.
This will prevent the wood from splitting when you put in the hardware.
This way it can be later opened for cleaning.
Find the center of your license plate and bend it to a 45 degree angle.
License plates are easy to find and cheap to buy and every one is unique.
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Drill several 1 4 holes in the floor for drainage.
Attach the license plate to the birdhouse using only screws.
Mark center of license plate.
Measure 2 inches down from the top corner and cut a 1 inch circular opening with a hole saw.
Using a pencil mark where the holes of the license plate will be on the edge of the birdhouse.
Center it over the roof support on the house.
The license plate birdhouse is an easy to build bird house design that can be a home for wrens titmice finches sparrows chickadees bluebirds and other small cavity nesting birds if you don t have an old license plate you can substitute the license plate roof with a piece of 12 x 6 galvanized metal.
Drill holes for the pan head screws or roofing nails.
The birdhouse will hang in a diamond position with a point at the bottom and the point of the bent license plate roof at the top.