The previous house the garage was about 420 square feet. This one is about 330.
Now that may not sound like a big difference but when you put it in terms of vertical space
as well as flour space, it adds up. So my solution was to eliminate some of the things that
I normally would store in the garage. The bicycles, the lawn equipment and the garden supplies
all went into a shed that I built in the back yard.
That was good, but it still wasn't good enough I still have a lot of things sitting on the flour that have no place to go.
I felt like I did a pretty good job at utilizing the vertical space at the other garage
and one of the ways that I did that was by building these two cabinets.
These are made out of peg board both front and back, and I did that because at the time I thought peg board was really
cool and you can never get enough of it. But hey, we all have things in our past that we are not proud of.
I thought that this would be a really good idea because I could just
come get what I wanted and put it back just as easily. But what I found was that these
hooks tend to fall to the ground and then I never wanted to go look for them and put
them back to where it was so what ended up happening was this right here.
I just stopped hanging things all together and started stacking them here.
So on this side you can see I gave up the hooks all together and I just stuck some shelves in here. I always found
this to be a lot better, than this. Like a lot of things in life you learn about yourself
when you build things like this that don't exactly live up to expectations.
What I learned about me was that I am more of a box on the wall kind of guy.
So I have this space back here between the cabinets and the wall and I thought how can I best utilize this space?
Box on a wall. So I'll take me some measurements, you know, after changing clothes, of course.
Ok, not really this was the previous day. Ahh, the magic of video and continuity issues
but I digress. Set the table saw up to cut the side panels. I've got some very poor quality
ply I've had sitting around the shop since I built the shed I mentioned earlier so this
will be a good way to use it up. I want to account for the swing of the existing cabinet
and the depth behind the molding of the door. So I am going to size my cabinets according to the space available.
Readjust for the tops and bottoms.
Then adjust a third time for the shelves.
I want my shelves to be adjustable if needed so I'm not going to cut daddos to
install them. I am also not going to spend the money to go get shelf pins either so I
am not going to bother drilling shelf pin holes. Some scrap wood screwed into the sides is a much cheaper option.
Alright done with that.
Now I'll run some rabbets along the back panels to accept the sides.
You know in hind sight I probably should have tested my measurement on a piece of scrap, but I got lucky.
Alright so, some glue.
I don't get a lot of use out of these right angle clamps. I find them to be clumsy and hard to set up.
I always feel like I need a third hand to use these things, but this plywood
I'm using is so bent and warped, I need something to hold these sides static until I can tack everything together.
The top and bottom pieces just get some glue
and brads.
You won't see me paint my shop projects all that often but this plywood, I have to admit,
really needs a face lift.
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