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Beginning of the End

A project log for Shop Reorganization

Putting my house in order

david-tuckerDavid Tucker 12/30/2022 at 00:100 Comments

I finished up my wood storage.  I went ahead and pulled out all my wood and sorted it by size and type then put it all back. In addition I built this small shelf out of some scraps to help sort some of my hardwood pieces together away from the more junky pieces.  This also allowed me to get more out of the small sliver of space I have here for storing odds and ends.

I decided it was finally time to attack my workshop space so everything needed to be moved out.  Here is all that I hope to fit into the space.  It is quite a lot of stuff!

And here is the space, not nearly big enough!  I went ahead and stripped out the old shelves I had over my workbench.  They were free with the house and not in good shape or really big enough to hold much of anything.  I will go ahead and add in my hanging shelves over the space, following the green line.  this should add another 10 or so feet of shelving and should allow me to get all my tools I only occasionally use up and out of the way.  For now I left the pegboard up, but only because I have no convenient place to put all the tools.

Here is another view with one of the cars parked, you can see there is just not that much space to work with. Still It is a fun challenge and I think we can make it in the end.

Finally I pulled down this French cleat shelving unit I made out of some scrap wood.  I'm really proud of this, even though there is not much to it and it is rather rough.  It is a dead simple way to get more storage without investing much at all.  You just need a way to notch a board or two, and some cheap shims to pin the shelves in place.  I went ahead and set this aside, but I don't think I will put it back up.  As nice as it was, I think I can find something that uses the space even better. 

Next up is marking out all the studs and the reference line for the shelves and then I can go pick up some wood and start banging things out.  This should go faster than the last set of shelves since it is much smaller, although there are more tricky corners to deal with.

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