Luckily, there were many wooden slats on his Hemnes bed, so I have enough to make a couple more of these shelves. I could put all my cans of spray paints and sample pots on the narrow ledges. The hooks would be great for tea towels and pot holders.Īnother set of these bed slat shelves would also be handy for the craft room. The shelves are just the right size for sauces and spices. They make great plant shelves, but I think a set would be handy in the kitchen. I use the DIY shelves purely as decor to display my mini succulent collection. I also decorated them with some vintage road maps to make them more exciting and to match my decor. I’ve added a few hanging hooks to the base of the shelves to give them an extra surprise bit of functionality.

These lovely shelves are not very wide, so they are handy for narrow spaces. I’ve repurposed my son’s old IKEA Hemnes day bed slats into a unique set of DIY shelves.

(There is a printable how-to card for this craft at the end of the post.) DIY Bed Slat Shelves It didn’t take long for me to think of a way of upcycling them. I wasn’t comfortable with this, as I ordinarily rescue stuff from the dump rather than put it there! So I hung onto the bed slats to make myself feel better. We’d tried several times to repair the bed without much success. I repurposed and upcycled the bed slats off my son’s old bed.