"shop"-ing around...

I want you to see what my husband has been doing...the garage has become the "shop" - we knew it would. At our other place, Jeff had a nice shed in the backyard where he could go to "play". He did all his woodworking out there, had all his tools out there, his radio-controlled airplanes were out there, etc. We don't have a shed here. So he's been working on organizing his stuff and building this or that to house it all.

He put up these nice shelving brackets so that he would have a place, out of the way, to store his wood boards for future projects. He likes to purchase his wood from a place in Wilmington called Anchor Hardwoods. They generally have a pretty good selection of wood to choose from and Jeff can usually find what he needs at a decent price. On his shelves, he has a little bit of everything from pine & walnut to cherry & maple. These "shelves" are on the left side of the garage if you're looking inside from the driveway and they sit above the water heater there in the corner.

He's also put up some of the wire shelving, that you can see here, for some of his "tubs". My husband is actually pretty organized when it comes to his stuff. He organizes things in tubs like these so that it's all together in one place. He has different tubs for different things: a tub for all things electrical, a tub with things he might need when he paints (brushes, rollers, etc.), a tub just for caulks & silicones...you get the picture. All he has to do is remember where he put the tub that has the stuff he needs in it! So these shelves kinda help with that. And these he put up right to the left of the door leading into the house from the garage.

The biggest project is the "wall 'o' cabinets". Jeff is building all different sizes of cabinets/shelves, some with doors, some with pegboard, some open to house his stuff. He's building "shells" to fit shelves in and then he'll enclose those with different door fronts. The photo at the top gives you and idea of what I'm talking about. He's also including a desktop area where he can set things to work on or put his computer on for some tunes or woodworking ideas. Underneath the desktop will be some cabinets with drawers, etc. for more of his stuff. It's really coming together. You can see the start of the desktop in this photo.

It's a work-in-progress right now. I hope to show you more photos in the future as it becomes more complete. Once he finishes this project, he'll have a lot more room in the shop to work, which means he'll be a lot less frustrated and be able to just crank those woodworking projects out! And maybe there will be room in there somewhere for my (little bitty) car. Maybe. :)