spent21
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I've been building shelves. The wife has been coming back to this set that she found on pinterest:
http://houseofhabit.blogspot.com/2011/12/home-workspipe-shelf-unit-in-boys-room.html
I just made the same exact thing, only bigger.
Reclaimed wood was out of the question. Too expensive, too rough, and too warped for me to deal with. I am NOT a carpenter.
So in order to get the weathered look, I distressed regular lumber.
I used all kinds of stuff. Screws, bolts, all-thread, pliers, screwdrivers, rocks. I even 'bowled' bricks across them. The handiest things were a piece of flat bar, a hammer, & a piece of threaded pipe.
My wife is a web developer and got her start in the print industry. She has a thing about old printing stuff and had the dies on a shelf in the office. I surprised her by using them to stamp our names in random places on the shelves. I don't think she knows I was beating on them, and I'm not going to tell her. I wouldn't have done it if she still used them, but they're only for decoration now anyway.
The finish is a dark walnut with a couple coats of minwax, oil-modified satin.
This one was still wet
2x12's for the shelves and an additional 2x10 for the desk.
I had to order a new chuck for my drill press to keep all the holes straight.
I ended up using 1" black pipe & since I knew there'd be a few abnormal lengths due to the design, I ended up renting a pipe threader.
I got all of the fittings from Zoro.com. I can not say enough good things about these people. I saved about $300 by using them compared to what the same fittings would have cost from Homo-Depot & got free shipping. I didn't take into account the extra width of the Tee fittings and soon found that the 8" ******* were going to be too long for the under board supports. I called them for a return authorization & expected to pay for the return trip, but they emailed me a return label for the 25 fittings free of charge.
We didn't want to screw into the hardwood floors, so the flanges only offer a base for the shelves to sit.
I used more flanges to secure the shelves to the wall at the bottom and at the top.
Word to the wise: measure the height of each section before moving to the next section. Uneven floors, bowed walls, and general out of squareness were not things that I had anticipated.
I had to pull 2 shelves off, move some sections around, and ultimately recut some sections to get everything realigned... Again, I am not a carpenter.
I got everything together while she was out & she absolutely loved them when she saw them. She had everything in place before bed that evening.
The finished product:
http://houseofhabit.blogspot.com/2011/12/home-workspipe-shelf-unit-in-boys-room.html
I just made the same exact thing, only bigger.
Reclaimed wood was out of the question. Too expensive, too rough, and too warped for me to deal with. I am NOT a carpenter.
So in order to get the weathered look, I distressed regular lumber.
I used all kinds of stuff. Screws, bolts, all-thread, pliers, screwdrivers, rocks. I even 'bowled' bricks across them. The handiest things were a piece of flat bar, a hammer, & a piece of threaded pipe.
My wife is a web developer and got her start in the print industry. She has a thing about old printing stuff and had the dies on a shelf in the office. I surprised her by using them to stamp our names in random places on the shelves. I don't think she knows I was beating on them, and I'm not going to tell her. I wouldn't have done it if she still used them, but they're only for decoration now anyway.
The finish is a dark walnut with a couple coats of minwax, oil-modified satin.
This one was still wet
2x12's for the shelves and an additional 2x10 for the desk.
I had to order a new chuck for my drill press to keep all the holes straight.
I ended up using 1" black pipe & since I knew there'd be a few abnormal lengths due to the design, I ended up renting a pipe threader.
I got all of the fittings from Zoro.com. I can not say enough good things about these people. I saved about $300 by using them compared to what the same fittings would have cost from Homo-Depot & got free shipping. I didn't take into account the extra width of the Tee fittings and soon found that the 8" ******* were going to be too long for the under board supports. I called them for a return authorization & expected to pay for the return trip, but they emailed me a return label for the 25 fittings free of charge.
We didn't want to screw into the hardwood floors, so the flanges only offer a base for the shelves to sit.
I used more flanges to secure the shelves to the wall at the bottom and at the top.
Word to the wise: measure the height of each section before moving to the next section. Uneven floors, bowed walls, and general out of squareness were not things that I had anticipated.
I had to pull 2 shelves off, move some sections around, and ultimately recut some sections to get everything realigned... Again, I am not a carpenter.
I got everything together while she was out & she absolutely loved them when she saw them. She had everything in place before bed that evening.
The finished product:
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