My Uncles Old Shutters

These little beauties were stacked on top of each other,turned sideways and zip tied to a cyclone fence on top of a cinder block retaining wall ( to keep the dogs in the yard) for a few years I'm guessing.

As you can see only 1 is in tacked. But my uncle assured me he had all the other slats to make up at least 1 more full shutter. So I grabbed them up and brought them home with all my other treasures he allowed me to pick before his estate sale.

I decided to build a free standing shelf unit out of them. When I put the slats back into the best one, that was missing all the slats I ran one short.. Drat! Right in the middle of my building. I didn't want to have to go back to my uncles house to search for one last slat or run to the home store, so I start searching my garage, Yes! A perfect match.. A Sherwin Williams paint stick is the perfect height and thickness. I cut it to the correct length and rounded the edges a bit to match the existing slats. After I put it in its new place I built the shelfs and assembled it. I choice to dry brush the whole thing with flat white paint.

I built these panels to add to the back for added stability. This one got the best of me. While I was nailing the corners together with my favorite tool, an air driven finishing nailer, I shot a nail clean through my thumb... OUCH!!! ��

This is my finished project. Originally I was going to take it down to the shop and sell it. But I think I'll keep it around for awhile first.

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