So a few months back, I posted about how I wanted to re-create Morgan Satterfield's amazing-super-rad Ace Hotel-inspired DIY bookshelf. Well folks, it is done. Over the course of three weeks and two trips to Home Depot, the Mister and I finished it, and it is beautiful.
I didn't take photos through every step of the process, but here's the few that I did take.
Behold the pipe cutter and threading machine at Home Depot. Actually, I have no idea what the technical name for that machine is, but it is a beast and got the job done. Thanks, Home Depot guy!
I snapped this real quick right before I started spray-painting all the pipe pieces. Don't I just look thrilled? Prepping the pipe and the wood definitely was the most tedious and time-consuming part of the project.
Pretty painted plumber's pipe all organized neatly on the floor. Shortly after this, the Mister and I started to hate life. A lot.
I definitely didn't hate how my stained pine shelves turned out though. Beautimous. The two longer shelves did end up being a bit darker than I wanted, but I attribute that to the fact that since it took longer to paint it, the stain had more time to set in.
So the hating life part wasn't that it was necessarily hard to put together, just....figuring out where to drill the holes in the wood so that everything would be nice and symmetrical and even. Because even though we were using Morgan's exact design, we had to adjust the measurements to fit our wall (hers was wider). But once we had the holes drilled in the first (short) piece, it was cake for the rest of the shelves.
Tip: Doing any kind of project like this with your significant other will go much smoother with the addition of beer. Especially when it's delicious, hoppy, Alpine beer.
So we basically just put it together from the bottom up once all the holes were drilled. It went pretty smoothly from here.
Almost there.
The finished piece!
Other than the overall width of our bookshelf, the only major thing we had to change from Morgan's design was the height of the top pipe pieces (from where it connects from the T to the elbow piece). I believe her top pipe lengths were 12 inches, and we had to adjust ours to 9 inches, so it could fit under that overhang on our ceiling.
And just like Morgan said it would be, that bookshelf is solid. I'm so happy with it. We ended up spending about $318 for all the materials. Not too shabby. I'm still in the process of adding some of our books and decorative objects to it, not to mention deciding what kind of framed art I want to put in that large open space.
Also, sorry for the crappy iPhone pics. I'm sure I'll take photos of this thing with my fancypants camera soon enough :)
I didn't take photos through every step of the process, but here's the few that I did take.
Behold the pipe cutter and threading machine at Home Depot. Actually, I have no idea what the technical name for that machine is, but it is a beast and got the job done. Thanks, Home Depot guy!
I snapped this real quick right before I started spray-painting all the pipe pieces. Don't I just look thrilled? Prepping the pipe and the wood definitely was the most tedious and time-consuming part of the project.
Pretty painted plumber's pipe all organized neatly on the floor. Shortly after this, the Mister and I started to hate life. A lot.
I definitely didn't hate how my stained pine shelves turned out though. Beautimous. The two longer shelves did end up being a bit darker than I wanted, but I attribute that to the fact that since it took longer to paint it, the stain had more time to set in.
So the hating life part wasn't that it was necessarily hard to put together, just....figuring out where to drill the holes in the wood so that everything would be nice and symmetrical and even. Because even though we were using Morgan's exact design, we had to adjust the measurements to fit our wall (hers was wider). But once we had the holes drilled in the first (short) piece, it was cake for the rest of the shelves.
Tip: Doing any kind of project like this with your significant other will go much smoother with the addition of beer. Especially when it's delicious, hoppy, Alpine beer.
So we basically just put it together from the bottom up once all the holes were drilled. It went pretty smoothly from here.
Almost there.
The finished piece!
Other than the overall width of our bookshelf, the only major thing we had to change from Morgan's design was the height of the top pipe pieces (from where it connects from the T to the elbow piece). I believe her top pipe lengths were 12 inches, and we had to adjust ours to 9 inches, so it could fit under that overhang on our ceiling.
And just like Morgan said it would be, that bookshelf is solid. I'm so happy with it. We ended up spending about $318 for all the materials. Not too shabby. I'm still in the process of adding some of our books and decorative objects to it, not to mention deciding what kind of framed art I want to put in that large open space.
Also, sorry for the crappy iPhone pics. I'm sure I'll take photos of this thing with my fancypants camera soon enough :)
Looks awesome!
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