A- I wanted my husband to post about his projects this weekend, but then decided a collaborative post would be cool, and we have not done that before.
C- huzzah for new adventures!
A- It was hot this weekend, really hot for the Pacific Northwest as it was in the 90s. Most of us don’t have air conditioners, and when we get several days of heat, homes don’t get much chance to cool off. We thankfully have a portable a/c we bought 2 years ago that we call R2. It does a surprisingly good job- but works best when we can be out of the house and not cooking much. So Cory was out most of the weekend working on projects and I was in and out.
C- it felt like one our first hot weekends of the year, having the shade sails really helps with the outdoor workshop, where I prefer to do as much of the work as possible.
A- Cory hung our sun sails in the back to give us more shade and then he got to work. He was making his first ever shelves. To clarify, my husband has made all sorts of things, benches, frames, fencing, has done concrete work, etc. Shelves just never made the list. See, we have a shed and for this rent house it’s pretty great, but it has no shelves and the cheap particle board one we had busted a while back as it never had the strength needed to support the stuff we had out there. Also I added to his list a request for a shallow shelf to organize my tea boxes in our pantry downstairs. Our house was built in 1955 and for all its mid century glory and bountiful storage (esp. for a duplex)- the kitchen is mostly drawers so we made half a large closet in the basement into a pantry.
C- I’ve been searching for a progress picture that is alluding me. Anna suggested some of the materials for this tea shelf, and I wanted to follow that design intent. If I’m being completely honest, I still need to provide “racking” support. I know it’s a bit fragile, but in the short term it is sturdy enough to see how we use it, and where additional cross bracing would be most effective, and least intrusive.
C- I had fun with the trim pieces, that really seem to lock in the construction, and make it , how do I say, more polished than I originally set out to build. It’s all about those details! If you’ve got a keen eye, you might see that I was one board short, that I’ve since located, hopefully to finish soon,,,,,,,
C- this , by definition , was a tight construction site, and it’s amazing just how much stuff aka junk we’ve/ I’ve accumulated since being here, and it was never more apparent than when the guts of the shed were strewn out after removing the 2nd hand red ikea shelf that had several honorable years of service.
A- The neighborhood cat we see all day every day gives great moral support just being there.
C- ur so dang cute and!
C- This was a tricky project, that had some interesting, to me, requirements. We are renters; this is not our house; this is not our shed. Heck, it’s also not our cat. I designed the shelving to be disassembled with relative ease if the great spirit ever blows us to a new address. I was reminded of a valuable lesson of shelf construction: there is a point when a shelf begins to function as a shelf, far earlier than when it is finally, and truly finished.
A- Finished just in time for pizza, but will be organized later.
C- organized and disorganized and reorganized , and on and on and on!
