Materials:
- Assorted 1/2 inch galvanized steel pipes
- Black spray paint
- 1/2 inch board
- 3/4 inch board
- Dark wood stain
Tools:
- Mitre saw
- Sandpaper
- Hammer & nails
Inspiration:
Building
I had an idea in my head (and some scribbles on paper) of what I wanted, but didn’t have specs for materials or dimensions. I generally like to start projects with an idea and let the materials I come across shape the execution of it from there. My tendency towards getting hands-on over theorizing took place pretty quickly at Home Depot. To avoid the inevitable “forgot a piece” or the “design doesn’t work” problem, I tried a prototyping a couple designs in the middle of the plumbing aisle until I got one that seemed to work.
After making the frame in the store pretty fast, it turned out to be harder than I expected to re-make the pipe frame and keep it sturdy.
It’s sort of like a puzzle. I don’t remember the order in which I assembled the pieces, but I needed to create several larger components from the pipes and then assemble them in
a certain order so that everything fit together. This required some logical thinking and quite a bit of trial and error.
I also scraped the stickers off the pipes (a tedious process that took a couple hours).
Once the pipe frame was assembled and stickers scraped, I applied a couple coats of a matte black spray paint. I seem to rememeber this paint was $1 at Home Depot.
Creating the hanging wine rack on the top shelf took some math to get the dimenstions right. However constructing this wasn’t too bad.
I used nails rather than glue to attach T-like racks to the boards that sit on the pipes. Nails just feel more secure to me, and you can’t really can’t see them anyway.
I did some quick sanding of the shelves and finished the wood with a dark mahogany wood stain (MINIWAX).
Then I quickly expanded my cocktail supplies to fill the empty bar.
