Pallet Shelves

First, I would like to welcome you to my new blog. Hopefully I can fill this blog with tons of new and crafty ideas. Thanks for coming along for the ride!

In all my craftiness (cue sarcastic tone) I decided to do my own little DIY project. The more I am home with my babies, the more I "see" that I want to do... My first real furniture DIY were my pallet shelves, they turned out great and just what I wanted. I seriously had dreams about this the night before I was SO excited.  

Here is what we started out with, I have a friend who works at Wal-Mart and she picked a few of these up for me for free. These are the smaller ones. They also have some that are bigger.

I purchased some stain from Lowes, and just a cheap brush since I wanted more of a rugged, aged look instead of a really nice stained look. I only did one coat of stain, the wood is rather porous so it literally soaked the stain right in.

After cutting them with a saw... it was REALLY simple. Or at least it was to me because I was watching and Hubby was cutting.

We just took another pallet and pulled a few pieces of wood off and nailed them to the underneath to create the "shelf" part. After adding some hooks to the back to hang them, this is what we came up with.

(still trying to decide what to put in them)

 (Finally decided)

Love the look of them in my dining room, I have several more to hang. Can't wait to figure out what to put in them and where to hang them. We actually made a larger one for my sons room so he will have a little shelf to put his books in. Such a great idea, and it seriously costs about $10.00