project shelf, part FINISHED
If anything looks crooked, I’m pretty sure something’s wrong with your screen.
Total cost of project was somewhere in the $150- $170 range. About $70 for the wood, $60 for the casters, and the rest was frittered away on screws and bolty things, if you can believe it.
My Bill is on the fence in a major way. However, given that the alternative to keeping it is moving it back outside, he’s willing to give it a chance to grow on him. The fact that we wish to go our whole lives without ever picking it up again is one thing we solidly agree on.
Me, I love it completely and irrationally. I love the luxury of large, un-cluttered shelf space, I think its wood looks old and wise, and I love the way it smells. I plan to spend the rest of the season sitting in that chair, resting my poor back and hoping some of the irrational love Bill has for me will transfer to the things, however towering and silly, of my creation.
So long as I’m exploiting the transitive properties of affection, here:
His cat quite likes it as well.
oh I think it looks lovely in the space. nice work! and any chance that mcm rocker is marked “made in yugoslavia” on the btm? if so, I just sold its twin (along with the lounge chair) a few months ago. but I never saw the footstool!
searched and searched. It remains the rocker of unknown origin for now.
Are you… expanding your empire to home furnishings? I’m doomed.
lordy no. just can’t seem to help myself when I stumble upon that kind of mcm goodness. it comes home and then we realize thirty seconds later that we have absolutely no place for it. up on craigslist it then goes. rinse and repeat. xo
Those books! They’re fantastic! And I love your bowl of yarn, too.
Surely your Bill will come around. He must. Especially since it looks amazing and cost you not even a 10th of the retail price.
LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOVE IT! everything about this shelf is perfect, including the things you chose to put on it!! AAAAAAGH! You should open a little shop out of your home of funky objects and reclaimed furniture.
Now considering a blog title change: Funk and Reclamation, LLC. Although that sounds more like a 21st century Jane Austin novel hack, or a techno music festival.
hahahhahhaha!!!!
Ooooh… Aaaah… I genuinely think this shelf is AMAZING. I would love to do something like this, so I’ve been waiting to see how yours turns out. Did you use any tutorials or books to go through the process? If so, any recommendations?
Hi Nikki
I’d love to say I followed the shelving tutorial at http://ana-white.com, but we got lazy and didn’t buy framing boards, or metal bits, and didn’t use a pocket hole system or brackets. Basically, we built five shelves and then screwed them to vertical supports, and then screwed the whole mess to the wall. Partially it was because I didn’t want to go to the hardware store ten times, and partially because I really liked using the drill.
HOWEVER, that’s not to say their pattern/instructions weren’t good. If that’s not helpful, just move down into our neighborhood and I’ll build you one myself.
this is BEAUTIFUL. wonderful job!!!
Fantastic! Manages to be rustic and industrial at the same time.
What better receptacle for a restored 1950′s polygraph than a funky DIY shelf of barn-wood vintage?
Either you’re a modern day renaissance man, appreciating tactfully ironic lie detectors and oversized-if-extremely-charming shelving alike, or you’re mocking me.
Either way, I might write you a letter today.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ROCKER!!!!
Wow. That turned out perfectly! (Except for, um, nearly crippling yourself.) And I grew up with that set of books and my parents still have them. Seriously, that shelf was worth all the trouble. It’s just great!
Wow! The shelf is amazing. Would love a tutorial on the ins and outs of how you made it. BTW, Love your blog.
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Ok, I am in love with the tiny fridge! Is that dollhouse furniture? It’s so cute and random, but so perfect.
oh how i love this
cheers from australia
That is so similar to the bookshelf my husband is building for our house right now, how funny! I adore it – you did a great job! Pinning this on Pinterest now for inspiration!