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Scrap wood at the ReStore actually made a decent desktop
I stopped by the Habitat ReStore in Portland last Saturday and they had a pile of old butcher block countertops for $35 each. I grabbed one, cut it down to 60 inches, and slapped it on some $20 sawhorse legs from Facebook Marketplace. It's got some knife marks and stains but after a quick sand and wipe on poly, it looks better than my old laminated desk. Anyone else salvage weird materials from these stores instead of buying new lumber?
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irisg5729d ago
Man, tell you what, my buddy Dan did the exact same thing with an old bowling alley lane from a Habitat store in Ohio. He sanded it for two weekends straight and now it's got this cool 60s vibe in his home office, plus it survived his kid dropping a full toolbox on it. He said the only downside is the oil smell took a month to clear out, but he'd do it again in a second.
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