Post #407870 by khan_tiki_mon on Sun, Sep 14, 2008 7:20 PM

The wife gave me an ultimatum. She said if I bought anymore Tiki stuff without displaying everything I already had she was going to start "smashing stuff". Seemed a bit harsh to me but....she's probably just crazy enough... So, I needed a shelf / cabinet to display my Tiki mug collection. I saw a shelf I liked at Ikea. The nearest Ikea is a four or five hour drive for me. We were visiting my wife's brother and went to the Ikea in Pennsylvania and I saw some shelves I liked. They were fairly reasonably priced and so I thought I'll order them on the internet. The shipping was $250.00, which is more than what the shelves cost. I decided to build my own Tiki mug shelf. I decided to use up some of the scrap and left over lumber I have laying around. A Tiki mug shelf built from recycled materials as in crap I had laying around the house. That was the plan.

First I started with a sheet of plywood, left over from I can't remember what. It's been in my shed for at least ten years. I put the top and bottom on.


I only had the one sheet of plywood so I made the sides with some chipboard. That was left over from building the shed where the plywood was stored. That makes the chipboard older than the plywood, I think.


The carcass of the Tiki mug shelf. Not looking very Tiki like yet but that's coming.