Love. I’ve really been loving all the projects people are creating from old wooden pallets lately. I’ve already featured a couple myself, like this pallet coffee table and the pallet garden here. Here’s another brilliantly creative way to use a pallet… turn it into bookshelves! If you head on over to Little Lucy Lu, Bec will give you the step by step.
Step 1 – cut straight through on the lines drawn below:
(Helpful husband used a hand saw for this part – what a guy!)
Step 2 – use those extra middle boards to nail on the bottoms of the shelves:
This is what they look like after steps 1 & 2:
Step 3 – pry the middle board out of the shelf (to allow more room for books):
Step 4: Sand ’em down! (I used an orbital sander.)
Here are the shelves, fully “constructed” and ready to be prettied up! 🙂
Here are the shelves, fully “constructed” and ready to be prettied up! 🙂
Step 5 – primer!
I brushed on Kilz primer … wowzers, that stuff is pretty awesome!
It’s like primer and wood filler, all in one! It’s so thick, it literally filled in a lot of the rough spots (which inevitably come with using an old pallet as your building material!).
I brushed on Kilz primer … wowzers, that stuff is pretty awesome!
It’s like primer and wood filler, all in one! It’s so thick, it literally filled in a lot of the rough spots (which inevitably come with using an old pallet as your building material!).
Step 6 – a couple of coats of paint (I used Rustoleum “Heirloom White”).
I love that color, by the way.
LOVE. IT.
Ready to be moved inside ….
Ta-da!
Bookshelves complete.
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