Showing posts with label shelves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shelves. Show all posts

30 November 2011

More Beer Shelves

Kevin's beer bottle collection continues to grow. This is even though it only contains the most interesting bottles. And even though we are brewing a lot of our own beer now and should be buying less of it. But Kevin continues to remind me that it is still much cheaper to love nice beers than it is to love nice wines. And that is very true.

So I had to add some more shelving to hold the growing collection, just 2 more shelves on one wall. I used the same method as before using 2x4s, the super easy and cheap method described here.

And what has our 21 month old Henry been up to? Well we've had some cold and rainy weather recently so we've been spending some time indoors. And he really likes hanging out in the basement. It's sometimes annoying to have to go down there with him - he's not the best at playing by himself and we brought the train table back upstairs for this reason. But it's also sometimes nice to hang out just the three of us playing together in the rec room.

He even let us play with his train track pieces, Henry was not very impressed with this and just wanted to play with the smaller track on the table after awhile. And clearly we need more straight pieces.
He loves playing lego with Daddy, mostly Kevin just makes him various cars but he also loves looking through the little pieces and finding the horses, dinos, alligators, and octopi.
And of course we're still reading up a storm. This is a rare moment when Henry was reading on his own, usually he insists that you read to him (and he usually doesn't read the book upside down either!).

23 March 2011

Kevin's 27th Birthday

We celebrated Kevin's 27th birthday yesterday. We had a nice day. I cooked him a very special dinner of duck confit (from our local fancy grocery store), roasted garlic mashed potatoes, glazed dijon carrots, and a warm portobello mushroom salad.


We just relaxed for the rest of the evening, took Henry out for a walk and watched a movie.


And I did get his music room all ready in time for his birthday. We were lucky enough to be given a nice desk for the room from Kevin's aunt and uncle, very lucky since I had been planning on buying him one as part of his birthday present.


So all I had to do was rearrange the furniture we already had down there and make and put up the shelves of course.


These shelves go all around the room with just 2 breaks at the window and the door. They hold Kevin's beer bottle collection which he started less than 2 years ago and is currently at around 150 bottles. Of course he has now tried just about everything presently available for sale in Ontario so the collection's rate of growth is slowing.

I tried to make the shelves very simply and cheaply while still looking good. So I cut 2x4s to length, rounded the edges where they meet the door and window using the jig saw, painted them white, and mounted them by screwing small corner brackets (which I also painted white) to the studs. I used the same method as here.


And there is room for the collection to grow (though Kevin has already been talking about a second row!).





The Trendy Treehouse

10 March 2011

Kevin's Shelves

I need to get around to taking pictures of what I've been sewing so I can update this blog. But for now, here is one picture of the shelving I've been making for Kevin's beer bottle collection that I got up yesterday. I used a similar method similar to the $6 shelves. I will post more pictures when I've painted the screw heads and done up the room a bit. The goal is to turn the basement bedroom into a pleasant music room for Kevin in time for his birthday in a couple weeks.


And here are some recent pictures of the toddler. He went through a week and a half of very bad teething pains but now those are gone and we're all appreciating having this perfect happy toddler back.

26 October 2009

Shelves!


Kevin and I started working on these shelves about a week ago but we have been talking about them for months. We are so happy with them. They are totally level and not wobbly at all. And we think they look quite nice. We bought the big laminated boards for the shelves, that was the main expense. All the rest of the pieces are just made from standard 2x4s that I put through the table saw and the router.

We made the shelves in this little enclave that we created when we boxed in a duct that was put in when we got a new furnace. That was our project that we did at the beginning of September.