In this tutorial, I’ll show you have to build shelves from an old shipping crate.

MATERIALS USED:
Salvaged wood (plywood and 2×4’s or smaller slats)
Hammer
Nails
Screws in various sizes
Driver/drill
Circular saw
Tape measure
Pencil
Wood glue (optional)

I recently had some windows shipped to my house, and they arrived in a big crate made of sanded plywood (yes, seriously, SANDED plywood). There was no way I was letting that nice wood go to waste, so I set about dismantling the shipping crate.

I ended up with several pieces of plywood in varying sizes, a few 2×4’s, and a bunch of cedar slats. (I could tell they were cedar by the smell 😉 ).

I’d been needing some shelves in the storeroom for a while, so the wood was just perfect for the task. I ended up getting two large shelving units out of the wood I salvaged from the crate. I even saved the screws from the crate and used them to assemble the shelves, making the shelving units totally free, except for a couple of nails.

The nice thing about making your own shelves is that you can custom size them to your needs. And since it’s salvaged wood, they’re free and eco-friendly.

My shelves are just in a back store room, but you can also paint your finished shelves if they’re going to be in a more prominently seen place.

Video tutorial by Amber Reifsteck, The Woodland Elf

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