Basement Workshop renovation
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 3:24 pmI know some of you have been wanting to see pictures of the basement workshop project I was doing earlier this winter. I finally got around to transferring the pictures to my computer so I can get them posted.
The original room had two workbenches on each side, neither were wide enough to really do anything with wide of long stuff. So with some help from my drill, screwdrivers, hammer, crowbar and muscles, I was able to get them loose from the walls. I then put them back to back to create one large table the which of I forgot to take a picture, but you can see it in another picture down the line here.
If you look at the one picture of these shelves that were over the one bench, you will see they were suspended from the joists above and the top shelf was pretty high up. Needed a ladder to get up there. So I took a couple of 2x2's and fastened them to the edge of the shelves for support and took the one end loose from the joists, cut a new board and fastened it in place so they are now supported from the floor. Also lowered the top shelf down so all are within easy reach. They were painted and are now holding future craft projects
Before I painted those shelves and the table, I repainted the walls a shade of blue as they were just white primer over drywall. Then I took down a piece of pegboard I had put up after I moved here and replaced it with pegboard along the entire length of the wall.
I also made some shelves to put up on the wall over the table to hold containers of nails, screws and other stuff. Mounted more pegboard on both sides of that too. You can see the finished table in the one picture. I am not taking credit for making the one shelf to the back of the first picture. It was here from previous owners who used it to hold thread spools. I found it made a nice craft paint storage bin.
I worked my way around the other wall, moved a cabinet over and then added couple of shelves,and more pegboard. This became the area to store the craft paints, glues and whatever else. Mission accomplished. Will repaint the floor and change the overhead lighting some other time.
The original room had two workbenches on each side, neither were wide enough to really do anything with wide of long stuff. So with some help from my drill, screwdrivers, hammer, crowbar and muscles, I was able to get them loose from the walls. I then put them back to back to create one large table the which of I forgot to take a picture, but you can see it in another picture down the line here.
If you look at the one picture of these shelves that were over the one bench, you will see they were suspended from the joists above and the top shelf was pretty high up. Needed a ladder to get up there. So I took a couple of 2x2's and fastened them to the edge of the shelves for support and took the one end loose from the joists, cut a new board and fastened it in place so they are now supported from the floor. Also lowered the top shelf down so all are within easy reach. They were painted and are now holding future craft projects
Before I painted those shelves and the table, I repainted the walls a shade of blue as they were just white primer over drywall. Then I took down a piece of pegboard I had put up after I moved here and replaced it with pegboard along the entire length of the wall.
I also made some shelves to put up on the wall over the table to hold containers of nails, screws and other stuff. Mounted more pegboard on both sides of that too. You can see the finished table in the one picture. I am not taking credit for making the one shelf to the back of the first picture. It was here from previous owners who used it to hold thread spools. I found it made a nice craft paint storage bin.
I worked my way around the other wall, moved a cabinet over and then added couple of shelves,and more pegboard. This became the area to store the craft paints, glues and whatever else. Mission accomplished. Will repaint the floor and change the overhead lighting some other time.
