Every home lover just think about the shelves while having a deficiency of storage options to floor level! Shelves are a best way to use your interior walls for storage and display purposes and we’ll let you know here the ingenious details about building a free wooden shelf at home, to let you not miss a even tiny detail about the construction, we have shared here this full DIY custom pallet shelf instructions which is damn easy to follow and does not ask you to gain lot of tools or supply material!
All you need is a single pallet board, some power tools for quick cutting and sanding of planks! Here this custom shelf has been composed of 6 single pallet slats using nails and glue and also sharp triangular wooden supports! You can add more number of shelves for a big shelving scheme or unit out of it!
Before getting packed for the shelf design, the single pallet lengths have finely been reconditioned and passed through quick sanding and gritting process!
Explore the available sources to find pallets, and get a healthy looking skids, will be enough for this custom wooden shelf construction!
Palm the right tools in your hands for pallet wood dismantling and just take the selected pallet board in pieces, then bring those separated straight lengths to power wood cutter or sander and get the custom sizes of them!
After trimming down the pallet slats to measured sizes just put them horizontally flat and in upward direction to compose the shelf model, would be all pretty easy to do, layer glue inside the surfaces for powerful grip!
Add the triangular wooden supports and add the final lengths to finish the shelf model, by going in the same way, you can add a desired number of shelving levels!
Here is the brighter unfinished wooden model of shelf, can be sanded again if you find splinters on any surface of it! So you can make a final inspection for the errors!
The lower shelf has also been supported more with triangular pieces of pallet slats! The top shelving level has been doubled up by adding one more plank as it can also be decided to serve as a decorative mantle so can have a lot of weight over!
Here the shelf is all competed and you go with this natural blank wooden look of it also if you just love the wooden touch to your wall areas!
Here it has all been stained in dark walnut for a glam choco wooden avatar, can be left for sometime for getting dried and then can just pick it up to install to you favorite wall area!
Finally some custom hooks have also been added to very lower part of the shelf, just to get it functional also for custom hanging needs, this suggests the best use of it as an entryway organizer!
The added hooks just give it a functional boost and help it to gain a dual functional behavior, it can even be perfect for a bathroom wall also!
The hooks have been fixed in place through screws, added straight to already made tiny holes to the wooden surfaces! Other single side or double side metal hooks can also be opted to make this shelf special for hanging needs as well!
Grab a latest hardware hanging system and install this wooden shelf to a custom wall area you have decided and enjoy a functional behavior of that particular wall!
Made by: Stevensville Pallet Project
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