Recycled Shelves For Canning

Because I've been doing some canning I decided I needed a few more shelves for our produce and had just the space left in the pantry for some. Not huge but enough to really increase the storage a little bit and keep it organised. 

Luckily when I had just the right wood in mind for this project. 

This wood has had a few lives already - many years ago - when I lived on the family farm and worked in site management (briefly) I was working on a site where two carpenters had come up with a problem. They were cladding a communal stairwell and had worked out they were massively short of timber - the manager ordered a load more  and pretty much none of it was needed (they were rubbish carpenters).

So the next day I rocked up on site and the forklift driver was trying to smash it up by driving over it again and again so it would fit in the skip! So I managed to save a bit and put it in my car. It then stayed in a converted barn for the best part of a decade before being used as a shelf in our old pantry for the microwave to sit on. 

when I pulled this out the other day to start making the downstairs loo, I figured it was still good wood so set to work breaking it down to make a shelving unit. Didn't take long, simple housed in joints and a good sanding the timber looked like new. 

Once they were put up I filled them in no time! Only a space for a few more jars!

 

It's really lovely to see these jars of produce on the wall (two deep) and I think they really have a beauty of their own! I really need to keep pushing on with the canning! 

So you have any materials that you've used over and over again?