Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)
A few weeks ago I headed into town. On the way there I seen some sort of shelf setting along the road at the end of a house driveway along with a few other items that looked like they were trash. I went to town and came back and everything was still there but I could see the shelf had crown molding on it. I actually passed it up again and ended up turning around to go back and get it a mile later. Even when putting it in my truck I was having my doubts and thinking I may have a problem thinking I always needed to salvage stuff all the time, but I really liked the crown molding. I took it home and set it in the garage while figuring out what I should do with it. I considered cutting the top off to make a hanging shelf. Then I decided maybe cut the bottoms off and make doors and have a hanging shelf but I didn't really have any place for one. One evening I was setting in my living room and looked over at my little bookshelf (one of those little cubicle type things we'd got years ago) and had the light bulb turning on over my head moment…. I'd make a bookshelf. Over the course of a few days I built it several different ways in my head but in the end this is what I imagined. All the lumber used was salvaged from a garage I tore down this spring. I thought the rough cut was cedar but I had to plane down a couple of the center boards for the top because they were cupped and found out it was poplar. And the cleaned up stuff absolutely did not match the other rough cut so I took a little propane torch and burnt it to darken it up. The shelves were also salvaged 1×12s, all of which had been used as exterior siding. I did have to buy paint and poly, I used the screws and a few nails that I had on hand. I'm very happy with it. I probably drove my wife crazy the last couple days commenting on how good I think it looks. It's definitely got some warts to it. The person previously used a heavily textured paint that I just painted over. All the wood has nail holes and dents in it, one of the top boards even has a piece of screw that was broken off just under the surface that I couldn't get out. All in all I couldn't be happier with it. I get a odd satisfaction from saving something from the scrap pile as well.