DIY Shadowbox/ Display Shelf. DIY Wood Crate Bookcase #LowesCreator. When the New Year began, we had one huge to-do left over from 2013: Get organized! We moved in October 2012 and have slowly been adding furniture and our own touches to our apartment. Our daughter’s room, however, no matter what we did, seemed to always look like it was hit by a tornado. Tornado Sofia, that is. Over time, we have added things to make it easier to keep it clean except for one BIG need that we kept putting off. A bookcase. Sofia is a first grader who has loved books since she was an itty bitty baby. One of us reading to her has been part of the bedtime ritual since she was just weeks old. So we needed something. Materials Directions Lay down a drop cloth or plastic. Sand down excess Liquid Nails, and using a small paint brush, paint wherever you could see dry liquid nails.
We may add a plywood reinforcement to the back and just nail it in, but this method is pretty sturdy and good for school age kids rooms. Vertical Storage From Old Dresser Drawers. By Becky Striepe on January 7, 2014 If you live in a small space, storage is at a premium. Vertical storage is a great solution for fitting more stuff into less space! Just like vertical gardening, vertical storage takes advantage of height to help maximize a small area. Store-bought vertical storage solutions can be a little bit pricey, but when you make your own from reclaimed materials you save money and reduce your environmental impact! Bing, bang, boom! I love these sweet vertical shelves that Samantha at the Douangphilas made out of salvaged dresser drawers.
She ran across these empty drawers at a Habitat Restore, and it's surprisingly easy to find drawers without homes. Keep an eye out for dilapidated old furniture, because even if you can't salvage the whole thing, this tutorial shows that you can even use parts to make something wonderful. To make your own vertical storage from old dresser drawers, you will need: Ready to make your own vertical storage?
About the Author: CD Rack As Storage/ Display Shelf. A place to store small nicknacks in and larger supplies on top We bought a neutral wooden CD rack at a cheap store (Xenos), painted it white on the inside and shiny black on the outside with some leftover paint (after sanding of course) and hung it on the wall of our kitchen. At first we put our little pots of seasonings, salt etc. in it but those are in a separate rack now. The CD rack now contains all kinds of nicknacks that have no other place in the kitchen. We used large screws to secure it to the wall.
The estimated time of this project is mainly sanding and painting. The stuff below the rack is standing on a normal shelve that we added later. Make & Hang Wood Fruit Crate Shelves. The new floor plan and stuff switcheroo for the guest room/craft room leaves me with two vintage wooden fruit crates that won't fit in the room with the new plan. Yay! Two shelves in the linen closet are exploding with rice bag heating pads (learn how I make them here), empty jars I use to hold my sugar scrubs, first aid stuff - you know, everything except linens.
I want a new place to stash this stuff and allow my linen closet to hold linens again. Crazy town, I know. I have a big boring wall above the toilet in the guest bathroom... I have two crates and three 2013 DIY Goals: create storage, use what I have first before buying materials, and add personality to the guest bathroom... ...and some extra supplies to make storage wall shelves out of wood crates. Fruit Crate Storage Shelf How to Hang Vintage Wood Crates on a Wall One issue with vintage wood crates is the wood may not be as sturdy as it looks. I didn't install the screws in a straight line- oops! Homemade Storage Shelves. Old Spool Into Bookcase Table. Alright people. The spool/book shelf re do is done. It has been done for a while but the how to is finally done. If you will remember it looked like this... I knew we were going to turn this into a book shelf.
Our old one had broken, finally. . * We bought a big piece of ply wood 1/2 inch thick, for the shelf *Then set the table down on the ply board and trace it. Once that was done we painted the massive screws black, to make them stand out. It holds roughly 90 books. I think it turned out great, I want one for my room now. How To Build Easy Storage Shelves. Let me answer the first question you have. Customization. THAT’s why you should build shelves as opposed to buying them from Ikea, Home Depot or any other store. By building shelves yourself you can make sure to use every inch of space that you have and even build your shelves around the boxes you know you’re going to be storing on them. No wasted space, no fits when you find out your massive stock pot is 1/2 ” taller than your biggest shelf.
Now that we have that out of the way, I’ll give you an idea of the sort of thing I was dealing with when I built my basement shelves. My basement is a nightmare. A place where demons dance. My basement is 175 years old and is home to an equally aged band of centipedes. What is has going for it, is it’s dry, fairly large and seems to be ghost free. My basement is a bit of an odd shape with a weird cement ledge all the way around it. So. Instead I dumped stuff upon stuff upon stuff. It took $100 and 1 day. That’s right. . #2 … the floor #3 … the wall or Yes. 20 DIY Shelving Projects - From DIY Honeycomb Shelves to Vintage Suitcase Vanities. Outfitting your home with brand new furniture pieces can be quite costly to your overall budget, which is why these handy DIY shelving projects will offer you some great tips on how to manually build and decorate some practical shelves.
Adding shelving units to your interior decor is a creative way to provide practical storage space for your home, and while purchasing these items from the store is one convenient method, building them yourself serves to add a unique personal touch. From wonderfully minimalist shelves made from upcycled tree branches to bathroom vanities made from vintage suitcases, these DIY shelving projects will certainly help you save a buck or two. A fantastic way to infuse your own customized touches into your home, these DIY shelving projects will have your furniture pieces looking like one-of-a-kind creations. Over 50 Awesome DIY Shelves Tto Make.