"Pack Rat" Shelf

Does your wife call you a pack rat?  Mine does.  Being in the military and always moving does not help my cause.  Not wanting my treasures to end up back in the trash I decided to make this shelf.  I had two criteria for my shelf to meet.  No fixing it to the wall, ceiling, or floor (I have a very high security deposit).  Secondly I had to use as much of my "collection" as possible.  You see this build is important because my wife allows me to buy one new tool of choice per successful project.  Let's hope it succeeds! 

Step 1: Materials

This was my easy part.  Here's the list:
1. Four vintage Japanese 500ml Coke bottles & one small coffee bottle
2. Six various sized pieces of wood left over from a previous project
3. Hooks, cable, turnbuckles, oval eyelets.
4. One 4" diameter x 8' long cardboard core from an earlier purchased carpet

Comments

[manishrkp]

Nice indestructable :)

[omnibot]

Nice work, though I am sceptical about placing wood on a bathroom floor next to a bathtub. Some treatment for the wood and perhaps spacers between shelf and floor?

[NeiltTII]

I was going to go with some kind of feet. I should be ok though because the bathtub/shower portion of the bathroom sits roughly 5 inches lower than the rest and with a glass wall there. It's too hard to see in the pictures. Now that I think about it though, some feet would maybe look sharp on it. I know I have something laying around here that would work.....if the wife didn't get to them yet :)

[tbcross]

I love this shelf, wish I had seen the plans years ago. I live in an old farmhouse that has no shelves, closets, or cabinets. You post your plan a week before I am moving :) I'll keep it around just in case. Great ible.

[NeiltTII]

Thanks for the comment! I think my wife also wishes I had made this earlier.