Projects

Since we've been back from Christmas break, we've tried to start getting our second bedroom ready for our upcoming addition.  We had previously been using it as a sewing room/exercise room/storage room.  The difficulty is that out of those three purposes, it probably needs to stay as the sewing and exercise area as well as a nursery.  So the only thing we can remove from the room is the storage.  Which brings us to this post.  We have a basement in addition to our two main floors, as you've seen in some of our previous posts.  It's split into a living room area and a laundry/utility/storage room.  We refinished the living area, which I think I posted about.  However, the other half stayed pretty much the same, except we added a couple more lights and a light switch.  So it's unfinished, cement all around.  A previous owner had built a workbench and framed in some storage shelves under the stairs, but they only had a couple 2x4's going from the front of the unit to the wall and had a few planks layed across them.  Not very useful for putting anything on.  So we decided to improve them so we could actually use them for the actual storage they were probably intended for.  I should have taken a true "before picture" but I forgot to.  So this is actually after Dave had started improving them and was halfway done. 

He framed in each section of the shelving and put 2x4 supports across each of them so the shelves won't bow.

After they were all framed in, I forgot to take pictures before we started putting things on them, so you'll have to look past all the storage to see the finished project.

As you can see, we put plywood over the frame.  Also, our workbench is now actually able to be used as a workbench instead of a gathering place for all of our tools, which we didn't have another place for before.

So, now you can see how great Dave is.  Even with going to law school and studying all the time, he finds time to do projects like this for me!  Thanks Dave!