Built-in Cabinets

I have been working on constructing some more shelving in our basement, so we can get a little more organized down there.  To that effort I have been working on building some built in shelving units to replace a stand alone shelving unit from ikea.  Here is the story in pictures so far.

I also put in a small door for the kids to use to enter the area under the stairs as a play house.  It will probably be awhile before I get around to dry walling the interior, but the kids don't care.

I built the cabinets in the garage and hauled them down on a dolly, that was a mistake I should have cut and routed in the garage and glued it in the basement.  I built a jig out of peg board to drill the holes for the adjustable shelves which worked pretty well.

I built the two tall shelves and brought them down.  They are not perfectly square, but once the face front is on I don't think anyone will be the wiser.  Jen didn't notice so I will call that a win!








It took me awhile but I was able to build some smaller upper cabinets as well.  They are 15 inches deep instead of the 24 inches of the tall cabinets.  I am very glad I did that, since they are almost sticking out too much as is when you are coming around the corner.  As you can see they are filled already... sigh!

Couple old pictures

Found a couple old picture that are relevant so I thought I would post them.

This was a repair I had to make because I forgot to turn off the water to the garage sink early enough in the fall.  I really need to learn that lesson better, but the kids like to use a hose attached to the sink to play with water pretty late into the fall.  The copper pipe burst and I had to replace it, I replaced it with a stainless steel one and I haven't had any problems since, even though I have still forgot to turn the water off early enough.  So I had to buy a new tool to get to the nut, I hope to never use it again.

 This is our mud room setup, the top and bottom unit were pretty well priced at ikea, it works well for us though Jen would like cabinet doors in there.  For what reason I am not sure since the whole area it destroyed most of the time :)  We have lots of fun outside.