Shelves!!!

Look at that mess!!! Back in February, this is what our basement looked like! If you know Cass, you know that this bothered us to no end, but we never needed to go downstairs for anything so it got neglected.

We decided that this needed to be fixed! We had a whole bunch of leftover plywood from building the shed doors (see August 9, 2010) so we figured that'd make some excellent shelves! Now I just needed some 2x4s! Too bad those don't grow on trees! (Wait, they do actually just not in my backyard.) I also needed some nails. Quick trip to Lowe's took care of that!

We brought my tools and stuff down into the basement and cleared out a workspace for me and away I went. They only took me a day to build. We had 4 pieces of plywood that were about 18" deep and 8' long, and we had 4 more that were about 30"x20". Perfect for storage bins!

In the end, we had two super sturdy shelving units. One that looked like a 4 person bunk bed! Combined with a set of metal shelves we got from where Cass's Mom used to work, we ended up having enough room in the shelves to organize just about everything we had in our basement, after going through all our stuff and throwing a bunch of stuff out of course! We had extra garbage to throw out at the curb each week for about the next 2 or 3 weeks as a result of that! NICE!

We're quite proud of our handy work! This of course made room for me to start putting together my man cave!!! Check it out!