Lorelei Caroline

Good news! I finished the paper shelf! It only took, like, forever and three weeks.  Seriously, though. I didn't realize just how involved this design would be.  Each of the vertical dividers and individual planks and they had to line up with each other to look squared.  Then, since the shelf was constructed from plywood, I needed to do something to finish out the front.  That meant cutting a bazillion tiny pieces of wood to frame it out, glue & nail them in place.  Then I had to fill all of those tiny nail holes and sand the whole thing down flush.  I think it turned out well. This is the back of the shelf.  It's getting mounted to the wall so there needs to be strong anchor points.  Both of those pieces are screwed to the cabinet box on the side.  After a week of priming, sanding, painting, painting some more, and sanding some more, I got the shelf mounted! I'm quite happy with it.  Isn't it awesome? I need to do some touch up painting on the s

I'm at the verge of having the closet come together in a big way so I'm going to save some pictures for next week.  Oh the suspense! But here's a teaser. The work I'm doing now seems small but is very time consuming.  That, and I'm just a slow person.  I framed out the paper shelf this week, which meant cutting all kinds of tiny little pieces of wood for the bazillion cubbies, gluing and nailing them into place.  I was also able to clean up a few of the boards that I tore out of the closet to use for my shelves on the opposite side.  They were in rough shape. Stained, not very even, and a little too thick for my taste.  So the hubs ran them through the planer for me.  I'm kind of glad he did this for me because one of them got stuck in a major way.  Sawdust was shooting everywhere.  I thought it was about to explode. Planers are pretty awesome. They're like little factory conveyor belt sawmill things.  Which I guess is legitimately wh

I'm all dado'd out. 42 dados, people.  Wait a minute.  42.  I have the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.  It's dados, y'all. Just have a little groove in your life. Or maybe it's about give and take. Make a little room in your life for others to fit.  I don't know. Last weekend was spent planning and building my paper/vinyl/stabilizer shelf.  I changed my design so many times. First, all of the little cubbies for the stabilizers & rolled vinyl were going to be on the side so I could have the 3/4" plywood off center to provide vertical support to the middle of the shelf. Plus, that would help prevent the 1/2" plywood from sagging over time.  That plan went by the wayside because it didn't provide the best maximization of space/measurements.  And it was getting unnecessarily complicated.  I decided to go with the straight forward three rows of cubbies at the bottom with my paper/vinyl shelves at the