I spent most of the day straightening up my room so I can install the new shelves without excessive awkwardness.
It's pretty hard to keep telling yourself you have a handle on that "organization" thing when you are moving a box of twenty-year-old bank records you didn't know you had to get at what turns out to be the box of a Bersa .22 pistol you don't remember buying, and under it is a two-year-old map to the Indiana State Fair and the ticket stub from a 2017 hamfest.
The cats have enjoyed the effort -- there were corners under my dressing table they had only hoped to get into before today.
Maybe tomorrow, I'll get it finished and be able to try to install the shelves.
I feel your pain....
ReplyDeleteWe moved 4-5 years ago and haven't been able to find anything since.
Went searching for *something* and came up with two USB sound cards! (not on the search list)
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I have been following this activity. You are closing in on completion. Someone with your new acquired expertise is just what I need. When this job is complete, and you have a yearning to do another, similar job, let me know!!
ReplyDeleteYour Humble Guest hereby requests a picture of the open wall prior to installation of said storage system, and then a "after" shot showing it in place prior to being stocked with the cloth container baskets.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious if you're going to anchor it to the wall itself, or just let it be freestanding. I'd guess that with the number and size of cats in the household it's gonna have to be bolted to the wall.
It's fun to hear about somebody else's indoor archaeology dig. We did our whole house when we moved last October and got the occasional surprise.
So satisfying to accomplish something of real value.!
ReplyDeleteWell done, lady.
I fear doing this, but I must.
ReplyDeleteFor those who were asking, my wall-anchoring tend to be pretty casual, typically small angle brackets screwed to the verticals and fastened through existing door/window molding and into the underlying structure. I rely more on interlocking structure, wrapping shelves around corners so the combined footprint is stable.
ReplyDeleteThis project, if it goes as planned, will be partially held in place by a cherry desk/dressing table, itself long overdue for refinishing (it was *painted* and a first effort at stripping the paint took the veneer off one side!) and some replacement drawers.
...Chuckling a little over "newly acquired expertise." I have been building my own bookshelves since about 1979, and fit-to-space stuff since at least the mid 1990s.
ReplyDeleteSimple CAD software makes the planning a lot easier, but it's not all that difficult to do with pencil and gridded paper. Building the stuff is another story. At my age, it wears me out unless I am very careful about how much I try to get done in any given day. It's easy to get task-focused and ignore tender knees and tinging fingers until I have gone too far.