A Scrap Wood Project
Way back in 2011 (it's painful to think that was 8 years ago already), just after the back porch remodel, I built an umbrella stand for the back porch.
As a matter-of-fact the umbrella post has consistently been the most viewed post here at House 173, and that's always been a head-scratcher for me!
But there ya have it. Probably within a week or two of finishing the umbrella stand, I was looking around the shop and noticed a stack of old hardwood bed slats that had been laying around for a couple years waiting for inspiration. Somehow, when I saw those boards I immediately knew what I wanted to do and where it would go. This was another one of those projects I didn't draw plans for, but I just measured the space on the back porch where I wanted it and set to work.
That picture was about the middle of the remodel, but the space in the lower right next to the outside door is where I pictured the rack going, and here it is:
It wasn't a difficult build, but I want to show a couple happenstance features. First, in the picture below you can see that the old bed slats were chamfered.
Yea yeah yeah, I know the rack is a bit dirty, but the back porch serves as the mud room so - dirt happens! Anyway, I made it wide enough for two pairs of shoes on each shelf. That's six pair - if we needed more space, I figured we should just be putting some shoes away! It's never been a problem so...no problem! You can also see that a large bag is clipped to the one side of the rack, that's where returnable bottles are kept 'til return time. Not particularly glamorous, but it's functional!
I also antiqued the rack a little bit. And that's the shoe-horn that hangs from the side of the rack.
Here's one angle of the rack in its habitat. In the winter we put a drip tray inderneath for obvious reasons!
And here's the full-frontal!
And a final shot. The total cost of the shoe rack was $0! Even the paint was leftover from some other project that even pre-dated the umbrella stand!
