Pallet book shelf

One of the easiest things we built this year was a book shelf out of a pallet.
Materials that you will need
  1 pallet
   Stain
   Screws

Basically you will just cut the ends off of the pallet leaving 2 boards on one side and 1 board on the other.

Then very carefully remove  2 of the remaining boards from the pallet.  These will be used for the bottom of the shelf.  Screw the boards down. 

Then just sand them down and either paint them or stain them. You can use them any way you like.  We used ours for books but have come across people using them to hold wine bottles. 
And here is the final result:


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