As apart of our Labor Day “staycation,” we cleaned the house. While my wife worked to organize her sewing supplies, I was cleaning the workshop in the garage and fixing a few things around the house. I’ve been looking for something to do with the wood that I have leftover from the kitchen remodel, so we came up with a short list of things to do:

1. Cut out a shelf to hold my wife’s sewing supplies
2. Rebuild the wheel mounts for the driveway gate
3. Build a new magazine holder for the bathroom

It just doesn’t feel like a weekend unless I paint something white.

Here are the pieces for the magazine holder. It’s the leftover plywood from the kitchen island:

I really didn’t feel like spending a loot of time on this piece, so I decided not to add any molding. A trick I use to make plywood look more like finished lumber is to smear drywall mud into the cut sides and along the seams. It usually hides the imperfections well enough:

The other items you see here are the shelf for my wife’s sewing supplies and the wheel mounts for the gate:

The shelf is made from the plywood I had left over after making the rolling pantry for the kitchen. In order to make it match the rest of the shelves in the guest bedroom bookcases, I had to rout out a curve on the front edge. It looks pretty good:

And after my last wheel mounts fell off the gate, I decided to make this new set out of oak and buy wheels that are flat-mounted to the bottom:

These should last a while. I hope the new, white paint fades pretty quickly or else I’ll have to pressure wash the entire gate.

The magazine holder was a pain. I should have painted the pieces before I assembled it, but I wasn’t thinking that far ahead. I got paint all over myself trying to get the roller and the brush into all of the cracks and crevasses inside the box. But in the end, it came out great:

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