Bookshelf Project Finally Complete

"Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)" (galileo-humpkins)
09/04/2018 at 19:00 • Filed to: None

After 13 months, our iron pipe & reclaimed wood bookshelves are complete. “Hey, Galileo, why’d it take 13 months?” You might ask, adding, “ These look fairly straight forward.” Well, that’s a fair question and they are, to which I would respond, “Shut up.”

Honestly, we bought the pipes and wood, August of ‘17. We quickly had the wood cut and sanded and the pipes partially assembled. Due to life and travel and whatnot, the shelves were sanded and stained in September but we weren’t happy. We let the project sit too long and Winter/Spring didn’t really allow us an opportunity to redo them. Well, some procrastinating later, I get everything ready to go this weekend (new stain, sander, etc.) and in looking at them ‘with fresh eyes’ we actually really liked the subtle, mismatched stains. So I finished the project, finally.

I think I’m going to make some similar ones for our record collection downstairs to further tie everything together , and this time I aim to get the time of completion down to under 6 months! Realistically a few days, if I’m being honest.

DISCUSSION (22)

MM54 > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 19:15

Very cool, nicely done!

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > MM54
09/04/2018 at 19:35

Thanks!

E92M3 > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 20:53

Very cool! Much nicer than the bookshelves made with MDF.

Brickman > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 21:03

Looks amazing!

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > E92M3
09/04/2018 at 21:04

Thanks! These actually replaced the earlier version of these:

Kinja'd!!!

and the record shelves will be similar but with and extra arm to ensure the records don’t fall out the side and will replace some cheap IKEA storage cabinet type shelves.

shop-teacher > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 21:30

Those look great? I may steal your design :)

XJDano > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 21:30

Your procrastination skills could be better.

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/tag/tailgate-table

But seriously this looks great. How much for all the fittings & threaded pipe. ?

OPPOsaurus WRX > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 21:56

well done. i love see ing o ther peoples house projects on here.

These have taken me about a year to complete. it was all just to hide some duct work running vertically on either side of the fire place.

Kinja'd!!!

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/04/2018 at 22:07

Oohh, nice. I do love built-ins. Now that we don’t have bulky shelves hiding the equipment/wires, I’m going to have to figure something out for that stuff, but that should be easy- peas y.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > XJDano
09/04/2018 at 22:10

Honestly do not recall, best guess is $150 all in for both (wood & fittings). I could be a bit off though. I knew someone was going to ask.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > shop-teacher
09/04/2018 at 22:12

Thanks? ;) Admittedly, these are not my design, but I’ll happily take the credit - so...steal away my friend.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Brickman
09/04/2018 at 22:12

Thanks!

OPPOsaurus WRX > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 22:15

i have to build an island soon. I built a placeholder but it needs to go

shop-teacher > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/04/2018 at 22:39

Good enough for me :)

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/04/2018 at 23:29

Our kitchen needs some serious work. Well, serious aesthetic work.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/05/2018 at 09:45

we painted out cabinets. The boxes and doors were in great shape but outdated . We used a type of paint called chalk paint (not chalk board paint) its a low prep paint, just sand out the big things scratches and clean them good. Its been a year and they still look good. then we got a granite top. if you go to enough places you can find a cheap slab. Ours was $1200 installed. We found a slab that was intended for another project but was too short so it was just sitting in the store’s stock yard.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/05/2018 at 11:11

We used chalk paint on our bathroom cabinets when we redid our 1/2 bath - saving the kitchen cabinets for last since it’s the biggest of the cabinet jobs. Our cabinets are in good shape, but like yours, outdated and also a perfect match to the hardwood floor and it’s just too much of the same wood finish. I’d love to get new countertops but we’d need a fair bit of granite (or whatever we choose) so there’s going to be a lot of shopping involved in that and hopefully a bit of luck . The actual next project is refacing our upstairs fireplace. New tile and mantle.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/05/2018 at 11:21

Yea, we have limited counter top so that helped the price. My wife wants to do a butcher block top on the island which I would expect isn’ t cheap. If you tell the counter top people you have the time to wait fo r the right slab, they can keep an eye out for something to pop up. Go to lots of places. Even if you get the same price at a bunch f places, eventually you will catch a break. It took me probably 10 different stops. Average was $1500 - $1800, ended up at $1200

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > OPPOsaurus WRX
09/05/2018 at 12:45

The kitchen project is somewhere down the line we do tend to keep an eye out when we are out shopping for other projects. If we do get lucky sooner than we planned, it will be moved to the top of the to-do list, I bet.

Bo Knows > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/05/2018 at 15:01

Hey, Galileo, why’d it take 13 months? These look fairly straight forward...

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > Bo Knows
09/05/2018 at 16:47

Shut up.

Bo Knows > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
09/05/2018 at 17:33

As advertised. Thank you.