Honey Do's

I asked Jim if he would hang two shelves in my sewing room.  He offers to get some pine shelves, router the edges, and paint them white, and make nice brackets.  I’m thinking to myself, “boy that would sure look nice… I wonder what year they’ll be done”?

I suggested instead some of those plain utilitarian laminate colored shelves you can get at Lowes, and some premade metal brackets… because my sewing room is already rather ugly, but pretty darn functional, which is all I really care about.

Isn’t that weird?  You’d think a sewer would want a perfect room… well of course I do, but I create up here, I don’t come up here to relax really.  As long as it’s functional, I’m happy.  So ugly utility shelves it is.

I’ll post another picture when they’re up.  It might be tomrorow, we’re going out to dinner with friends at 5:30, and probably won’t get home until late… and I’m going to clean my sewing room while we’re at this.

Update on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 4:05PM by Created by CJ

Well it didn’t take long to fill those shelves up!  Sixteen feet of wall space, used up in a blink of an eye!

I put all my small AccuQuilt dies on the bottom shelf, because I use them all the time (they were sitting on my window sill, ugh).  My four “Barbie boxes” that hold some of my presser feet are on the other end of the bottom shelf.  Mostly books on the top shelf, I distributed the weight a bit by putting two plastic drawer units up there.

I may have to work on the top shelf some more.

I think I’m going to need more shelves… more walls!  As you can see, I’m pretty much out of wall space… and floor space.  Although I could take down my fabric color cards and put more shelves on that wall, they’d be very hard to reach since the sewing cabinet for my 830 is pretty deep.