Just Being Shelf-ish

Well hello there, lovely people! Hope you're all wonderfully wonderful and enjoying the warmer / cooler weather depending on where you are ^_^. Yesterday I put a photo of my home-made nail polish shelves up on Instagram, and a couple of people asked me how I made them, so today's post is a 'pic-torial' of how I went about it. I've edited quite a bit out, so I'll write out a super simple guide too. Here's the photo I posted to IG: 

Click through to see how I did it!

I measured the length and height of the shelves to specifically fit OPI bottles (as the majority of my collection is that brand), and went down to the local hardware store to get some timber. I knew how long I wanted each individual shelf and how many of them I wanted, so I bought the wood that I needed and had the lovely guys at the store cut them to size for me (free of charge, woohoo!). I got ten individual shelves, plus a top, a bottom, and two sides - all four of which I made sure were a little bit deeper so the polishes would sit back inside the frame. I wanted them to sit in so I could put 'fronts' on the shelves so the polishes weren't able to free-fall should the house rattle (we're very prone to earthquakes here!). I also purchased a 'back board' because I didn't want my bedroom wall showing through the shelf - again I had this cut to size for me.

With all my custom-cut timber ready to go, I got a hammer, nails, set square (everything had to be straight!!), glue, a drill, and got into it!

1 - I got everything I was going to need, set up the frame pieces to be straight and marked where each shelf was going to be along the inside of the sides.
2 - After drilling some pilot holes through the side frame pieces, I used a little glue and lined the shelves up with the holes - one side at a time!! *Very* tricky to get things straight if you try to do both sides at once!
3 - Filled the pilot holes with nails and made sure everything lined up properly.
4 - Risked crushing my thumb - tappa tappa tappa... 
5 - Repeated 'til all shelves were nailed to both sides - the top and bottom pieces were done at the same time too.
6 - Measured out and drilled pilot holes through the backboard.
7 - Tappa tappa tappa... (Pictured is the back of the back board - the nails are going into the back of each shelf).
8 - Primed and prepped the wood for painting!
9 - Those are the 'fronts' for the shelves which needed to be primed before painting too. I highly recommend painting the shelf and the fronts separately and then attaching them - it's insanely difficult to paint the shelves once the fronts are on (as I found out on shelf #2... >.<).
10 - Painted with a high-gloss enamel paint (left outside to dry over night) then very securely secured to my wall! Violá!

Okay so I said this was gonna be super simple... It is, really! Basically get someone else to do all the cutting, then measure, line everything up, glue it together, hammer it together, paint it and hang it! It's clearly not rocket science - heck I've made two of the things LOL XD if a 22yr old girl can do it, it can't be that hard!

I don't know if anyone will read this or if it's of any use to anyone, but that's how I did it, and it's working great for me! Getting ready to put a third up because my collection is overflowing again >_<. I might have a mild addiction...

Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you're all happy and well! I'll be back into the ABC Challenge next post, promise! I've got some completely delicious beauties to show you - get your drool-bibs ready! XD Take care!