Storage shelves (aka: vacation is over!)

Well, as much as I want to keep recalling our wonderful trip, it was time to move on to something else. So, I decided to tackle the project of putting up some storage shelves in the shed. Last year we did a huge purge and got rid of a lot of stuff, but we were left with a few old small, odd-shaped and rickety shelves to hold things like our empty wine bottles. So, a lot of stuff was ending up on the floor, and it felt like soon we'd have the same old mess in there. So, Mom and I took a look and decided on shelf size and spacing and after just two trips to Home Depot, voilà:



I used 3/4" plywood for the shelves, because they will be holding a fair amount of weight, and also then I didn't need to put in extra horizontal supports under each shelf. So, now we have lots of room for our empty wine bottles and other things. And when we get into making a batch of beer, we can store those bottles out there too.

Next projects coming up - new kitchen counter tops and a new kitchen sink, one such as this with a built in drainboard. Some of the places we stayed in Scotland had these types of sinks and we really liked them. And for the countertops, we are thinking of something like the Corian material. And we'd like to refinish our wood floors soon too. And of course, we want to make a few more batches of wine, and maybe our first batch of beer sometime soon. So, more projects to come!