In this new room, even with the new bigger shelves I bought, there wasn't enough storage! I needed something to hold all my patterns, nicknacks, office stuff, and preferably my embroidery attachment and serger.
Once again I wasn't finding anything that I like, weither it was price or style there just didn't seem to be anything out there to fit the space. So the hubs and I decided to try something we've always wanted to ... making our own furniture! And our first project would be a leaning wall shelf for the Ana White design (http://ana-white.com/2010/07/plans/leaning-wall-shelf).
The beginning ... we've got the wood, the tools, and the design!
Safety first (haha) don't want sawdust in your eye!
Yes we were safety with our eye wear but the hubs wasn't with his footwear!! Thank goodness nothing happened.
All the pieces, now it's puzzle time ... and of course things aren't "perfect" so I'm sure well run into some interesting issues.
Put together, sanded, and painted! Looks great, but don't look super close! We made more than a few little mistakes and for sure a couple big ones! We ended up having to rip the whole thing apart once we got it in the room since the angle was way off! The important thing is we made it, and fixed it!
Here's the final look, nicely decorated and doing its job in my sewing studio!
All in all this was a great starter project and we learned ALOT! Now we're hooked and have plans for things in every room! Our garage is about to get a little more crowed too since we definitely need to expand our tool collection. Not having the right tools makes things super hard and create alot more work!
Now to get to work!!
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