It looked simpler on paper.

The basement pantry needed some shelves. I needed some justification for owning a power saw. Here's what happened:

Top shelf

I made the shelves out of 2x4's and these handy little 2'x4' panels of plywood that Home Depot sells. That's me on a finished shelf above.

I decided to make the shelves twelve feet long, so the final assembly had to happen in place:

Shelves in progress

Surprisingly, this all went pretty smoothly. I only had to make one trip to the hardware store mid-project.

Finished!

Basement Pantry Shelves in Process

It has been an exciting day!
We started with an always exciting trip to Home Despot, where we purchased LUMBER! You can see it on top of our car here.


Jake is a madman with that saw. These shelves are going to be HUGE! The plan is 12 feet long and 6 feet high, with three long, deep shelves spaced two feet apart. Jake finished one shelf and the leg supports today. They stand at the ready in the pantry right now. Tomorrow (we hope) will be the last two shelves and final assembly!

Basement Pantry Project

We have a lot of kitchen stuff. A LOT. So we need some auxillary storage for some of it, you know, things like the pasta maker, the ice cream maker, the coffee maker....

So we're going to use the little room immediately under the kitchen, which was (when the previous owners lived here) a teenage boy's room. The previous resident left us this cryptic message on the wall.

Basement Floor Painting Project!

This is the basement floor. I just finished painting it (Sunday). It's still wet. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I know it looks like it's red and white, but the white area is actually a very pale blue.

I did the red area a few weeks ago. We had already painted the basement pantry floor red, and there was some left over, so thought I'd do the main room while I was at it. About halfway into the main room, I realized that there wouldn't be enough red to cover the whole area, so I had some fun with painter's tape, and decided to use up the remains of some blue floor paint left by the previous owners.