I’m a complete beginner without any sort of wood working experience. The only experience I have is taking a jigsaw to my dresser while my husband was gone for the day.
When I was visiting my in-laws, I decided to start a project. I knew the 10$ ledges were a great easy first project. My main lesson from the project is to check the state of your wood! I was at a home improvement center that goes and gets the wood for you. I had it bundled and didn’t bother to check it until the next day. By that time there was a couple of feet of snow and all the highways and roads to the home improvement center was closed, and most in South Dakota for that matter. (I’m going to venture a guess that Ana probably deals with worse conditions in her neck of the woods.) Any who, the wood was a bit rough and ugly…even for pine, but I decided to deal with it. I was snowed in and may as well do a project while I was!
The only adjustment I had to make was cutting them in half since an 8 foot shelf wouldn’t travel back home with me in our SUV. This ended up making them a bit off when I put them on the wall, but it was a necessity and I’ll deal with it. I used a table saw and belt sander for the most part. It was the first time I used this equipment. After my husband gave me a lesson, he had strict orders to back off and let me do the work. The plans work absolutely great. My husband and I agree that the shelves create a whole new atmosphere in the room.
