Wine Crate Bookshelf

A simple bookshelf using standard rough pine wine crates.

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Step 1: Find wine crates...

Most high end wine stores will have wine crates they are willing to part with (unless they use them for their own displays). Cheaper wines are sold in cardboard crates, so the fancier the store the better. This project can also be done with fruit crates, though they are not as easy to find. I needed various sizes for my design, so I ended up getting crates from four different stores. I used three small crates and three wide crates. Finding the crates is the most difficult step in this project.

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Comments

[happy limes]

This is great! They really do just give you the boxes for free though?

[iloveflute]

exactly what ive been looking for. =) thx a lot for sharing.

[porternick]

I made these a few months back out of wine crates from Costco.

[loppy96]

ive been doing similar (and i use the word very loosley) things with coke crates 5 stars

[avaistheone]

I think this project looks nice. Excuse my ignorance, but is the glue really necessary?

[Weissensteinburg]

This reminds me of something you'd see in a library. No clue why. Why did you wait between layers of glue?

[reclaimagination]

Mostly because I only had enough clamps and textbooks to do one glue at a time. Also because the orientation I used wasn't exactly rectilinear, I didn't want to take any chances with the surfaces sliding. Cheers!

[gallimaufry13]

Great instructable! I'll definitly be doiing this at my home...i'm going to give you five stars! WOoOOOO!

[LinuxH4x0r]

Nice! My closets are filled with wine boxes that we pick up from sam's club every time we go there even though nobody in my family drinks.