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Well, the day has come, the shipping container is gone, and I’m moving back in to my shop space.  On some level, this makes me happy, but it also stresses me right the heck out.  It’s chaos!  I’m back to having boxes everywhere and tripping over things.  Too slowly, but surely, I’m bringing order to the chaos, as you’ll see in this video:

Stef doesn’t get it – the whole “I’m Type-A and disorder makes me upset” thing.  She keeps telling me to “enjoy the process,” which is like telling someone to enjoy the flu.

From my perspective, it’s miserable, and I’m just trying to hurry up and get through it so I can get back to being productive.   (Also kind of like the flu.)

So I’ve been madly at work on storage projects.  In particular, the fastest don’t-order-anything-fancy-just-use-what-you-can-get-quickly kind.  There are three main things I’ll show you in this video.

 1.  Wrapping “Posts”

I put the “posts” in air quotes because what you’ll see me wrap in this video aren’t posts at all.  I just made them look like posts.  Basically, I covered up all the outside corners in the shop with a 6×6 rough cedar wrap.  What makes *my* post wrap video different from all the other bloggers-wrapping-posts content on the internet is that mine actually looks like a post.   The secret to my post wrapping is a lock miter on the edges of the boards.  You’ll just have to see the video if you don’t know what that is, because it’s way easier to understand if you see it.  This was my one exception to the “hurry up” theme I’m working under.

2.  El-Cheapo Cabinets

Yes, I know it’s a shop and you’re supposed to build your own cabinets.  But if I had to wait that long to get all these boxes off the floor and put away, I’d have an aneurysm.  So in the interest of staying alive, I went with the absolute fastest way to get cabinets there is: go buy them at a big-box store and just screw them in.  It’s not too exciting, but there you have it.  I did make my own countertops for some of them, if that counts.  I also got the unfinished ones, so I can paint them later when I won’t trip over anything to do so.  And I do have something planned for the paint that will continue the “barn-y” theme I’m working towards.

3.  Shelving With What I Had On Hand

So I built some shelves with the scrap wood I had on hand.  It just so happens that scrap wood is gorgeous reclaimed teak, and not something you would normally use for shop shelves.  There’s a story behind that which you’ll see in the video. (It has to do with my desk.)  I also built the shelves with iron pipe fittings from the local home center.  I did that because I knew I could get the hardware in 20 minutes, and it would be adjustable, expandable, and I could always find hardware to match without worrying about it ever going out of stock.  But it turns out – pipe hardware shelves are a trendy thing!  I’m trendy!  Who knew?!

And with that, I’m starting to get a handle on my shop space.  There’s still lots more to do, like assemble my brand new table saw that’s sitting out there right now.  It’s killing me to keep writing this, so I’m going to stop now.  Once I get that saw up and running, I’ll be off to the races on the remainder of my projects out there.  Bye!