toddski.ta
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Having now introduced myself I figured I'd best show what I'm working with.
To recap, the house I share with my wife, son and daughter has a double garage under the house, with a workshop off to the side of it, which leads to under house storage. Mostly this will be about the workshop as the garage just houses the dailies, and the RX7 when I'm prepping it for hillclimbs (otherwise it lives in one half of the double carport).
The workshop has really always been more a storage area with a workbench - stuff gets fixed there and the tools etc are all stored there but when I started using it to build stuff for the deck I rebuilt I really noticed it's shortcomings. This is about how it looked at that time.
The view in the door - looking at the very deep cupboards that stuff gets lost in. More on those in a later post. The rolling tool cabinet that can be seen in that photo is actually my 12 yr old sons.
The workbench my Father-in-law built for me - nice and sturdy and has been great, but too low for me. You can see my toolbox that my folks gave me at 18 - has done loyal service but I can never find anything in it easily. You can also see the filing cabinet that came with the house, and those cupboard doors actually lead to my tyre/rim storage room.
The bit of pegboard, the carpet on the floor, the busted doors and the general mess. What would need to change...
This will end up with some custom shelving, as well as my sons tool cabinet going underneath.
Behind all this is the one solid brick wall in the workshop so the welding table will go over there.
So that's what I'm starting with.
To recap, the house I share with my wife, son and daughter has a double garage under the house, with a workshop off to the side of it, which leads to under house storage. Mostly this will be about the workshop as the garage just houses the dailies, and the RX7 when I'm prepping it for hillclimbs (otherwise it lives in one half of the double carport).
The workshop has really always been more a storage area with a workbench - stuff gets fixed there and the tools etc are all stored there but when I started using it to build stuff for the deck I rebuilt I really noticed it's shortcomings. This is about how it looked at that time.
The view in the door - looking at the very deep cupboards that stuff gets lost in. More on those in a later post. The rolling tool cabinet that can be seen in that photo is actually my 12 yr old sons.
The workbench my Father-in-law built for me - nice and sturdy and has been great, but too low for me. You can see my toolbox that my folks gave me at 18 - has done loyal service but I can never find anything in it easily. You can also see the filing cabinet that came with the house, and those cupboard doors actually lead to my tyre/rim storage room.
The bit of pegboard, the carpet on the floor, the busted doors and the general mess. What would need to change...
This will end up with some custom shelving, as well as my sons tool cabinet going underneath.
Behind all this is the one solid brick wall in the workshop so the welding table will go over there.
So that's what I'm starting with.
