Cool home project: DIY shelves from steel piping
Useful if you have a lot of heavy books, like me. The $30 Craigslist bookshelf I’ve got now seems to be working fine, but I can see those shelves sagging under the weight of my leather-bounds (books used to be a lot heavier, apparently). Probably a good intro to basic home crafts for the kids, too.
The one pictured is by Robert Gutmann, and you can check out the process and other pictures at his Flickr page.
[via Apartment Therapy and Simplified Building Concepts]