well there is no fourthly, but Chris always gets mad at me when I make lists of only 2-3 items.

I love that it can easily hold about three big loads of folded laundry, so if I don’t get time to put it away over the weekend, it still has a place to live and be tidy and out of the way..I also love that it was super cheap to make!

We used the most basic lumber supplies but ended up with something that looks really cute and custom!.For the top itself, we just used one long piece of pine shelving and trimmed it out with some 2×2 pine pieces to make it look chunkier.The shelving that we got (I think these are also sometimes called “project boards”) was about 16″ wide and we just measured it to run the length of the room.

You can get these boards in all different shapes and sizes and they’re made up of long strips glued together so you get that authentic “butcher block” look!We attached the 2×2 trim pieces around the edges using clamps and wood glue and then sanded them down to be rounded on the edges once everything was dry.

We’ve made this type of counter before and sometimes we’ll uses a few nails from the nail gun to hold everything thing in place too.

A little bit of wood filler helped to smooth everything out and then we were ready to finish it!.The big chunky legs are just pieces of roof support that had blown off with a big section of the roof last year..

The counter top for the beverage center as well as the skirting around the top came from some of the siding that has been blown off.Actually, that siding has been used in quite a few projects around here, and also in the homes of a lot of the neighbors.

It’s become kind of a community-use barn around here.So we made our plan, gathered our barn wood, and then we got to building!