Shelved it!

Another job Brian decided to do while I was away was to fit a much needed shelf in the laundry room. He sent me this picture first, probably in the hope it would get me excited about the work. He framed it as ‘Bear with me, I know it doesn’t look like much yet’, which is how most of Brian’s projects begin. On this occasion he had been saving this particularly uninspiring piece of wood because it had the same veneer as the shelf he had already put up in my laundry, which desperately needed a bottom shelf attached to complete it. Although it wasn’t very inspiring in itself, I knew something good was now on its way

He started by giving it a good clean with white spirit, then he cut it to the right width with his table saw, and proceeded (after measuring of course) to cut round corners onto it.

Next job was to stain the pine edges to look like the veneer. He used some mahogany dye first, but apparently that wasn’t yellow enough. So he next put a couple of layers of oak stain, then a couple more layers of mahogany and he was happy.

Just a quick medium oak stain beeswax and it was ready to fit.

Et voila! A new bottom shelf. It looks brilliant and I’m looking forward to being able to organise myself a bit better now in my laundry room. I just love this eclectic look.