Shelves for this room were clearly on the forefront of my mind when we built our home four years earlier. See this lovely pile of wood? We scavenged through the dumpster for these boards as our home was being built.
All of this was scrap or otherwise discarded by the builders and was being tossed out! Clearly, that wasn’t going to fly on my watch. In my mind, we’d already paid for this wood in the cost of our home, so it was technically ours anyway right? 😆
So, we made an arrangement with our superintendent, that allowed us to store all of this wood in the basement as the home was being built.