One pallet should make 4 shelves. You will be cutting it down into fourths.
The back of your pallet will look like this.
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And your cuts will be like so:
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According to meandmadeline.com:
Next, you’ll need to measure the inside of the bottoms of your newly made shelves so that you can cut 2×4’s to size and screw them in place. Otherwise, all your books will fall out the bottom of your nifty new shelf.
To finish them off, I took a little electric sander and tried to get the edges and corners as smooth as possible. Because I wasn’t happy with the new wood, I took a hammer and some nails and scraped to give the wood some more character. Then, I took my can of stain and used a brush to run over the surface of the shelves one time. After each brushstroke I immediately used a rag to rub in the stain.
The smell may take up to a week to go away so consider that if you are excited to hang them up immediately.
And look what you will have made!
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These shelves are great for the kid’s room but why not for a home office headquarters, den (they could hold DVD’s and video games) or for that matter, any room in the house. Even the bathroom–they seem to be wide enough to fit bottles and toiletries!
Thank you to meandmadeline for this awesome tutorial and wonderful pictures!
@[100001021996538:2048:Miranda Warnock Helmering]
Aiden need these April
@[100000924907329:2048:Sue Monk] it doesn’t look like you actually tagged anyone in your comment! :))
cool
@[100002378293064:2048:Sheryl Robinson]
Good idea!!!!
great idea
Chris Kelton, Carl Angie Williford, these are very nice, think I will get dad to make me some for the cl$#%&!@*room.
would work to hold my herb garden!
@[1353587340:2048:Cole Palau]
COOL! <3
I did this….works great to hold my old bottle collection –
i have seen several really neat diy pallet projects but come to find they are not as easy to find for free as implied by a lot of these posts…
Great idea.
These shelves look really fun to make. I will be looking for a pallet
Shianne–you could make these !!
great idea. Real space saver.
Our scaffolding came on a pallet…hmmmm…always need shelves!!
neat idea
I love this idea for a childs room
Here ya go Ruby Cade!!
@[100005378317202:2048:Summer May Swearingen]
neat idea
@[1597239892:2048:Rachel Sollid] @[594961046:2048:Rachel Thomas]
just made these for Jennifer 🙂
AWESOME!
Pretty cool.
Cool! How about that!!
Al Dimperio Eric Dimperio
Well we have a “few” pallets lying around !
♥ this
I need a pallet to make something. Anyone have any extras?
I counted three (3) shelves hanging on the wall, where is the fourth? Did an awesome job on the three.
I recently helped my daughter and her boyfriend make these shelves, it really works, and they turned out great!
Thay did turn great.
Hmmm, would be easy to hang on a wood fence, too.