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So the wife needs a new place to put her coffee cups! No problem, that should be a pretty easy one. For some reason though, if you ask her, there is no finer wood on the planet than the stuff you pull off old pallets, so I rescued one of those from a dumpster and pulled some boards off it and went to work. My plan called for hanging this from the top of our cupboard, which is a thin sheet of fiber board with a protruding edge up top. I cut a small piece of a board, notched it a touch with a coping saw, and screwed that to the back of the highest frame member so the cupboard wall will slide neatly into the notch.
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So the wife needs a new place to put her coffee cups! No problem, that should be a pretty easy one. For some reason though, if you ask her, there is no finer wood on the planet than the stuff you pull off old pallets, so I rescued one of those from a dumpster and pulled some boards off it and went to work. My plan called for hanging this from the top of our cupboard, which is a thin sheet of fiber board with a protruding edge up top. I cut a small piece of a board, notched it a touch with a coping saw, and screwed that to the back of the highest frame member so the cupboard wall will slide neatly into the notch.

  • So the wife needs a new place to put her coffee cups! No problem, that should be a pretty easy one. For some reason though, if you ask her, there is no finer wood on the planet than the stuff you pull off old pallets, so I rescued one of those from a dumpster and pulled some boards off it and went to work. My plan called for hanging this from the top of our cupboard, which is a thin sheet of fiber board with a protruding edge up top. I cut a small piece of a board, notched it a touch with a coping saw, and screwed that to the back of the highest frame member so the cupboard wall will slide neatly into the notch.
  • Step two was even simpler than step one, because with a rustic look as the goal, there isn't actually any real craftsmanship involved and it's sort of more of a loose eye for art, and then purposely making things not very neat. Once I screwed the frame together, I added some hooks for the cups, and that's that!
  • Unfortunately for the wife, she's gonna have to cull her coffee cup supply from 20-something down to twelve, but with one of these hanging on either side of the kitchen window things just got a little bit prettier in here.
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