Tutorial on how to make some cheap and easy DIY wine crate bookshelves
DIY wine box shelves Travel and recipe book storage
Sorry for the lack of posts recently – I’m getting married soon(!), so life has suddenly become very hectic. I promise to post more over the next few weeks.
A few weeks ago, we realised that we were already running out of shelves despite our recent mammoth IKEA trip (4hrs drive each way and IKEA in the middle.. never again). Instead of going for cheap target shelves, I thought I would try and imagine up some more homemade options and fell in love with these ideas
It didn’t look too hard, so off we went to find some wine crates! Our local wine-store gave us a few beautiful bordeaux crates for free and we found the rest in Michaels
We gave them a quick sand down, added a coat of Miniwax driftwood stain (which is much warmer a colour than the greyish rustoleum one) and stacked them up to form bookshelves. In the end we didn’t even need to fix them in place with the weight of the books – so we can rearrange them any time we like.
Simple!
Working out the right alignment – bare wood shelves
Pre-staining
J staining the crates with driftwood stain – the slight roughness on the wood gave it a more rustic feel
Finished wine box shelves!
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