Salvaged Wood Shelf

We're visiting our place in North Carolina.

I thought I'd show you around a bit more.

Here's a salvaged shelf that we added to

the wall with the black bear. It's only 7"wide 

and  82"long, so it fit perfectly in that space.

Then I moved the camelback trunk in place.

I found the trunk at a local thrift shop.

I moved the antique pottery churns to the 

side of the trunk. I found those from a guy

 selling them from his pick-up on the street. 

Good deal!

The trunk  stores our out of season clothes.

Leaf art.

This is the wall -BEFORE.

This is the wall-AFTER.

This is how it started. Our son-in-law, Mike had this piece of wood in his garage. It's a salvage piece from an old bar. He had used most of the wood building a table and had this piece leftover. He knew the scavenger in me would love it. I didn't know exactly where I would use it, but was thinking 'shelf'. He had it sanded in no time so that I could stain it. We loaded it into the van when we left their

home in New Jersey. 

I found the perfect spot for it, 

on the bear wall, behind the love seat.

"We" stained it, and attached it to the wall

 with wrought iron brackets.

It's very thick and rustic looking.

It has a thick bullnose edge and 

great wood grain.

I couldn't wait to put stuff on it accessorize it.

 Thanks Mike!

To see how we made the bear click HERE

Cheers from North Carolina!

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