SilverJimmy
Well-known member
Going to give this a try, been on the HAMB and Garage Journal for many years and figure I need to give back some. I’ve gotten many great ideas here and I should share some of the things I’ve done too. I was a Snap-On Tools Dealer for 30 years and one of the side-effects was what my wife calls “Good-Deal-Itis”! In my weekly travels I would see cars, tools, parts, material, livestock, etc that were then offered to me for a “Good-Deal” and way too good to pass up! When I moved to Flagstaff in the early 90’s everything in my garage fit in the back of my 73 Ford F-100 shortbed pickup, now if or when I move Semi’s will be involved. Around 2010 my wife and I moved into our garage temporarily, it’s 40x75 with the last 40x15 as a 600 sq ft upstairs apartment with an office and storage on the ground floor. We had planned on eventually building a house on our 3 1/2 acre property, but after the economy collapsed, we just have lived in our tiny home years before it became cool! So the actual shop is 40x60 with 4 bays and 10’x10’ doors and 12’6” ceilings. One bay has a ALM7001 clear floor lift that I’ve barely been able to use from all the years of good deals and also all the inventory that comes from being self employed. Fast forward to 2019 and we retired from selling tools (yes, my wife also had a route for almost 15 years!) and I was paralyzed with not knowing where to start on the daunting task of retired life renewal.
Towards the end of summer 2019 I finally started the process….
This is after I’d already moved about 25% of the treasures! My plan was to build full depth shelves tying into the pony wall that the county building inspector made me build in the shop. They would end up very deep, but I’ve got long arms. But first all this had to move! And to move it all I had to make room for it elsewhere. In the end I didn’t move it all, I just worked around it. I had a pretty good plan for the shelves because when we moved into this place it was supposed to be temporary, so all the stuff from our nearly 2000 sq ft house was stored on this mini-mezzanine I had built.
So after getting enough stuff moved I started the build. First step was to get the top shelf up that ties into the mini-mezzanine.
I painted everything bright gloss white for easy cleanup and maximum light reflection. One trick I learned from selling tools was to paint the underside of a shelf bright white to reflect light as far back on a shelf as possible. Worked in my tool trucks and worked here nicely.
Lots more to come as the above was around December 2019.
Thanks for looking,
SilverJimmy
Towards the end of summer 2019 I finally started the process….
This is after I’d already moved about 25% of the treasures! My plan was to build full depth shelves tying into the pony wall that the county building inspector made me build in the shop. They would end up very deep, but I’ve got long arms. But first all this had to move! And to move it all I had to make room for it elsewhere. In the end I didn’t move it all, I just worked around it. I had a pretty good plan for the shelves because when we moved into this place it was supposed to be temporary, so all the stuff from our nearly 2000 sq ft house was stored on this mini-mezzanine I had built.
So after getting enough stuff moved I started the build. First step was to get the top shelf up that ties into the mini-mezzanine.
I painted everything bright gloss white for easy cleanup and maximum light reflection. One trick I learned from selling tools was to paint the underside of a shelf bright white to reflect light as far back on a shelf as possible. Worked in my tool trucks and worked here nicely.
Lots more to come as the above was around December 2019.
Thanks for looking,
SilverJimmy
. I'll come up!
