Building Shelves From Iron Plumber Pipe Have To Spray Paint?

This was bound to happen eventually.

How to Build Plumbing Pipe Shelves from the Cavender Diary

If you read any sort of "Habitation" blog in the cyberspace………you've seen this a yard times. Maybe more.

Time for us to catch upwards with everyone else.

The only wall in our living room has been begging for some shelves since the first time nosotros stepped foot in the Cavender business firm.

Empty Wall in the Living Room for My Shelves

There were some "modernish" chrome/black drinking glass ones there for a few years. Idea we could live with them, they were so cheap, just I only couldn't whatever longer. Black Drinking glass????

We've been using plumbing pipe for projects all over the house; like the Rolling Log Holder, our Vintage-Looking Dog Bed, and in theGarage for storage. We're going to use even more than in the closets and peradventure even every bit a shower curtain rod. Stay Tuned

Afterward much rooting around the Home Depot plumbing island, here'due south what nosotros came up with to hold our 10 foot wooden shelves together.

Here are the Pieces I need for Each Shelf Support - Copy

Here'south a basis, completely screwed together….

All the Pipes Connected for my Plumbing Pipe Shelves

I spaced 4 of these babies across the wall and attaches the back flange to the wall with drywall screws.

I Set my Footings in Place and Attached Them to the Back Wall

Ignore the alpine piping on the left. I was just getting a feel for how alpine I wanted it. four shelves including the top…..43 1/2 inches from the floor.

The woods shelves, almost the unabridged length of the wall, slide downwardly on each pipage and residuum on the "T" joint.

I apply a 1 inch paddle bit to make 1 inch holes in my shelf boards for the 3/4 inch pipage. My pipes are prepare 30 inches autonomously, and xv inches from each side of the end of the shelves.

Use a 1 Inch Paddle Bit to Make Holes for the Pipe

The boards rest perfectly on the "T' connectors. one in the front end and the 2d in the dorsum

The Shelf Rests on Top of the 2 Ts

Lots and lots of measuring, but connecting the pipes and sliding on the wood shelves was a pretty easy process.

One shelf at a time, and attaching each back flange to the wall with drywall screws.

Looking good so far.

Side View of the Plumbing Pipe Self Unit

The concluding posts are topped with flanges but like the anxiety.

I carefully measured then that each ane is exactly 42 1/2 inches from the floor. They easily twist to conform the peak.

My Flange Heigth is Exactly 42 and half Inches Tall

…and 14 ane/2 inches from the back wall.

My Flange is Exactly 14 and a half Inches Away From the Wall

I leveled a ten foot "cleat", fabricated from a 1X4, across the back wall……again, I attached it with drywall screws.

The Shelves with the Cleat Added to the Back Wall

……with 1X4 inch notches cut out and lined up perfectly with my flanges.(Run into where this is headed yet?)

I Knotch Out My Cleat for the Supports

xiv 1/2 inch supports, cut from a pine 1X4, fit in these notches and rest on the flanges in forepart.

Like so…..

My Support Piece Fits in the Knotch and Rests on the Flange

And the tiptop boards sit on the supports.

The Cap Shelf Rests Perfectly on top of the Brace

A 1X2 trim slice hides all the ugly and makes my cap shelf expect more than substantial.

Looking Down on Our Plumbing Pipe Shelves

I didn't want to stain my shelves, so I aged them a little with a mixture of steel wool and vinegar….(More on that to come up afterward)

…..and and then filled them with crap. Similar and so…..

Our Finished Plumbing Pipe Shelves in the Living Room

The Top of Our Plumbing Pipe Shelves

Books on the Plumbing Pipe Shelves in the Cavender Living Room

Plumbing Pipe Shelves from the Cavender Diary

Good identify to fit the overflow of books from the den.

I've been collecting the vintage locker baskets to use in the closets someday. (big sigh) Only for at present, they hold paperbacks and CDs. Yepp, we still own CDs.

But who's even going to notice what's in the baskets……

…… when the shelves are and so freakin' cool?