A Dual Project
OK, I have finally started on my new workshop!
From humble beginnings, as you will see. As we unpacked everything, we put things in two places, (Besides where they belong), the garage and the two unfinished areas in the lower level of our house. One of which will be my future workshop!
Yes, I am the eternal optimist! I really believe I can make something out of this room! Don't laugh! :yipee
Aside from the junk in here, the room has two walls that are cast concrete, made to look like somebody's, not mine, idea of bricks. One wall that is unfinished studs and another that is a combination of the two. That wall has a window and that is where my primary modeling desk will go. The previous owner must have had a nail fetish. He nailed thousands of nails in the walls anywhere he could find a place to do it. Weird! They seem to have no purpose whatsoever, just nails driven randomly?
Here are some photos of the windowed wall which i will start first.
See. Junk everywhere and beyond nails the guy liked to splash paint wherever he could as well!
From another angle.
I had an electrician rewire much of the house, especially the lower level where the museum will reside. He installed 65 light fixtures altogether. The guy that lived here before, besides being a nail freak and, a paint splasher was also a mole. For the first month we lived here, we had to carry flashlights around with us just to navigate the place!
Here is that window.
And here is the rest of the wall. That weird white pipe looking thing is a radon gas eliminator. Doesn't that look just space age and cutting edge?
The ceiling had a single 2 watt light bulb. Well, maybe brighter than that but not much brighter. When i get finished, when people walk into this room, they'll think they just died and are looking at the blinding light all those dudes said they saw just before they were dragged back to the living! I like light!
The rest, for the most part, is junk that will be parked elsewhere.
Then there is the furnace & hot water heater. I'd like to throw them out too, but, it's too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. A pity really!
Well, I got started at least. Here are the first two sheets of pegboard I put up. The following day, it rained like hell all day and I have nowhere else to do all my carpentry except the patio. (Garage still full).
I will probably be able to post some more photos tomorrow.
OK, I have finally started on my new workshop!
From humble beginnings, as you will see. As we unpacked everything, we put things in two places, (Besides where they belong), the garage and the two unfinished areas in the lower level of our house. One of which will be my future workshop!
Yes, I am the eternal optimist! I really believe I can make something out of this room! Don't laugh! :yipee
Aside from the junk in here, the room has two walls that are cast concrete, made to look like somebody's, not mine, idea of bricks. One wall that is unfinished studs and another that is a combination of the two. That wall has a window and that is where my primary modeling desk will go. The previous owner must have had a nail fetish. He nailed thousands of nails in the walls anywhere he could find a place to do it. Weird! They seem to have no purpose whatsoever, just nails driven randomly?
Here are some photos of the windowed wall which i will start first.
See. Junk everywhere and beyond nails the guy liked to splash paint wherever he could as well!
From another angle.
I had an electrician rewire much of the house, especially the lower level where the museum will reside. He installed 65 light fixtures altogether. The guy that lived here before, besides being a nail freak and, a paint splasher was also a mole. For the first month we lived here, we had to carry flashlights around with us just to navigate the place!
Here is that window.
And here is the rest of the wall. That weird white pipe looking thing is a radon gas eliminator. Doesn't that look just space age and cutting edge?
The ceiling had a single 2 watt light bulb. Well, maybe brighter than that but not much brighter. When i get finished, when people walk into this room, they'll think they just died and are looking at the blinding light all those dudes said they saw just before they were dragged back to the living! I like light!
The rest, for the most part, is junk that will be parked elsewhere.
Then there is the furnace & hot water heater. I'd like to throw them out too, but, it's too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. A pity really!
Well, I got started at least. Here are the first two sheets of pegboard I put up. The following day, it rained like hell all day and I have nowhere else to do all my carpentry except the patio. (Garage still full).
I will probably be able to post some more photos tomorrow.
