Office Shelving

     In Mid July I finally decided it was time to create some sort of storage unit for all of our books, knick-knacks and memorabilia. I went online and searched around for a few ideas about what I could DIY,  not surprising there were a ton of options. I fell head over heels for one in particular though, this awesomeness over at The Brick House.  I was in love! It has been a long time coming for this project, why we are just getting to it I will never know... O wait I know there has been a kitchen to work on as well as a garden. Ha!

     Of course I over think every single project before I even start buying or building anything. I started off with a drawing on paper and figured out how many of each piece I would need. It took me a good two weeks to pull the trigger. I did some research, by research I mean look at all the other blogs that have built their own versions of this shelving unit, and found a portion of them saying to try and find better deals online for the steel pieces. I did even more research to find the best price possible for all the pipe. I found a website that had everything I needed for cheap and with free shipping if I bought $50 or more. Yay! The website is Zoro Tools and they were great their website is easy to use and they shipped everything quickly.

Here is the box with all the pipe fittings.

Once I had all the steel I slowly started to build the shelving unit, starting with the bottom and working my way up the wall. 

I rounded the corners of all the boards, sanded them down, stained them and put 3 coats of polyurethane on each one.

Slowly I was making progress.

It took me a lot longer than I was planning on taking. I am sure me being slightly OCD with the stain and poly had something to do with it.

I think it all it took me a few weeks to do, I am sure the next one that I build wont take that long now that I know what I am doing.

Detailed shot of the steel support.