BelovedBungalow: Shelves for the Nook in the Bathroom

The nook had once been part of the closet in Bedroom Number three. And now it is in need of shelves. I bought pine boards and sanded them down.

I went to test the stain and it was just a blob. Bryna had mentioned that when staining pine I should use a wood conditioner so that was a trip to the hardware store plus some. But I finally got it and water based stain, as recommended by American wood working or some such source. I tested the water based stain with the wood conditioner but it was too light, so I tried a second coat and layering the darker oil based stain with it. I really like the darker stain over it. I finally made progress on the boards.

Here is a picture of the difference, on the left the boards only have water based stain, on the right they have the oil based over top of it. I don’t think it would work the other way around…

And after a few coats of vanish I finally took a picture of the test piece. The dark blob is the first test without the wood conditioner on it, not so pretty.

I am very happy with how the board turned out. But then it was time to cut the boards and construct the shelves… Which I mostly just made up, except for the fronts, I did see that done before.

I connected the two boards together, and since the nook was not square each one got labeled so that they would fit.

Then came gluing the fronts on, there was a lot of clamping involved.

a whole lot.

So here is the nook as of yesterday morning:

I put the rails on for the top shelf and then fitted it in, it fit perfectly. Unfortunately it was the only one that went in easy and the others were a bit more challenging...