DIY Industrial Pipe Shelving

As many of you know we moved in April. Well, we actually moved in March too. ;-) Our house sold very quickly and at the time we weren't even really sure if we were staying in Georgia or moving to Montana. We ended up living with family for five weeks in between our last house and our new house. We lived in our last house for almost ten years and I wasn't really sure what type of decorating I wanted for our new house. I came across this industrial pipe shelving and fell in love. It has sort of a farmhouse feel but definitely more industrial so it fits perfect for us. I'll share more of our house eventually but I wanted to go ahead and give a tutorial on how we did this shelving.

I read quite a few blogs on this, each with their own twist. I follow the Cherished Bliss blog the most (here is a link to her post) and we made a few changes.

Materials Needed for TWO Shelves (as pictured):

• The following can be found in the plumbing section:
  • (4) 3/4″ Black Iron Pipe (10″ length)
  • (4) 3/4″ Pipe Cap
  • (4) 3/4″ Flange
• 2 X 10 cut to desired length (we had ours cut into 4 shelves)
• Rust-Oleum's Metallic Spray Paint (we used Oil Rubbed Bronze Metallic)
• Wood Stain (in your desired color, we used Varathane Wood Stain in Kona)
• Wall Anchors and Screws

Be prepared to spend a little bit of money on this as the plumbing materials are not cheap. Below is what we spent, at Home Depot, for two shelves (as pictured):

• $5.98 | Rust-Oleum's Metallic Spray Paint (Oil Rubbed Bronze Metallic)
• $5.26 | Varathane Wood Stain (half pint in Kona)

Total for paint materials: $11.24
* Don't forget the brush for the stain if you don't already have one!

• $7.64 | 2 X 10
• $23.80 | (4) 3/4″ Black Iron Pipe (10″ length)
• $8.40 | (4) 3/4″ Pipe Cap
• $23.40 | (4) 3/4″ Flange

Total for shelf materials: $63.24

Since we did two in our master bathroom and two in the guest bathroom we spent a total of $126.48. We think that the shelves are totally worth it! We love them! Since we built the shelves we've had someone come in and "frame" our bathroom mirrors and they used the same stain.

Directions:

Prepping the Shelves:

1. Remove the stickers from the plumbing supplies (we used Goo Gone to help remove the residue).
2. In an open space, find cardboard or styrofoam to lay out all of the items you need to paint. Apply a coat of spray paint and allow to dry. Once dry, flip over and apply a coat to the remaining side. Allow to dry.
3. While the spray paint is drying, stain your wood shelves. Allow one side to dry and then flip over to stain the other side.
4. Once everything is completely dry (we waited until the next day) you can start to assemble your shelves.

Assembling the Shelves:

1. If you haven't already, hand screw the pipe cap onto the iron pipe.
2. Determine where you want to hang your shelf. Once measured, use an anchor in the wall. Using a drill, screw the flange onto the wall. Hand screw the iron pipe into the flange. Repeat for all 4 iron pipes.
3. If you used silver screws like we did, you can take some of the same spray paint and use it to paint the screws the same color (you could also do this when you are spraying the other items but we didn't!). I sprayed a little bit of spray paint into a cup and used a q-tip to paint the heads of the screws.
4. Once all of your shelf holders are secure into the wall you can add your shelves!
5. Now comes the fun part, decorate your shelves with whatever you choose! We have one shelf in our master bathroom and one in the guest bathroom so we've used the following:
   1. Fake plants
   2. Towels
   3. Cotton Balls
   4. White Bars of Soap

*** If you have children and you are worried about them toppling over the shelves you would have to explore ways to attach the wood to the iron pipe. As they are pictured and as this tutorial shows, the wooden shelf just sits on top of the iron pipe. We haven't had any problems but we also don't have any kids. :)

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Grilled Orange Chicken

I know I've promised this recipe for a LONG time! I finally had Scott actually tell me the ingredients and amounts he uses. We've made this almost every weekend for the last few months. It's easy to make in advance and tastes great leftover. This is the chicken that we use to make our Chick-Fil-A copycat Protein Packed Breakfast Sandwich.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts or tenderloins
• Organic orange juice (with orange juice as the only ingredient!)
• 1 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• Montreal steak seasoning
• Organic orange peel (optional)

Directions:

1. Fill a deep container with orange juice, olive oil, and salt. Stir to combine.
2. Cut breasts into tenderloins (or buy tenderloins!). Place into the prepared container.
3. Sprinkle with Montreal steak seasoning and organic orange peel.
4. Let chicken marinate for at least three hours.
5. On an indoor grill, cook on high heat for about 10 minutes in the closed position or about 5-7 minutes per side. On a large outdoor grill, cook on medium-high for about 7 minutes per side or until chicken is 165 degrees Fahrenheit and no longer pink on the inside.

Fat Burn Tabata Workout + Iron-Tek Review

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Iron-Tek for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.

Let me start off this by saying that before I could even get a picture of the Iron-Tek Beet Energizer (pre-workout), Scott had already used it all and tossed the container (even after I asked him not to!). He loved it because:

1. He’s obsessed with beets
2. It gave him great energy without making him jittery
3. He didn’t crash after drinking it
4. It contains no preservatives, artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners

I loved it for all of the above reasons as well, minus #1 because I don’t love beets, but it didn’t taste overly like beets either.

It’s very, very difficult to find a pre-workout (or really any supplement for that matter) that doesn’t have a ton of junk (including food coloring for no reason). Fitness and nutrition should not be difficult and Iron-Tek agrees. They went back to the basics and crafted a system of workout supplements to help.

The Beet Energizer we mentioned is a food blend of beet, coffeeberry, guayusa, coconut water with electrolytes. It is a pre-workout that you take 30-90 minutes before your workout to give you the energy you need to perform your best.

Another product that we love is the Hydro Recovery. We aim to drink this within 30 minutes of our workout. We use it after gym sessions and after our hiking adventures. The hydro recovery is a 4 in 1 blend of tart cherry, BCAAs, electrolytes and coconut water. It is very refreshing after a sweating workout session and helps to reduce recovery time and replenish electrolyte minerals lost.

 

If all of this talk about working out has you ready to get sweaty, I made a new workout just for you. Try it out and don’t forget to hydrate pre-and post workout with Iron-Tek’s Beet Energizer and Hydro Recovery.

This workout is a tabata style work and is 16-minutes long (as listed) but can be repeated twice for a 32-minute workout. There are four circuits that you will repeat four times, working for 20 seconds and taking a 10 second rest in between each.

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