Adventures in Remuddling

Not too long ago, the CRT monitor used to take up a significant portion of real estate on people’s desk. These days, flat panel displays have largely solved that problem. But we want to take our desk back. Entirely…

And it might seem we like to mount things on walls (see wall mounted radiator), we do as long as it’s not plates.

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Fine woodworking is not really a “portable” activity. It is best done in a well stocked and correctly set-up workshop. Unfortunately we don’t have a designated space for the shop yet. And I probably won’t get one until a year or more. There are more pressing priorities for our home.

So what to do when shelves for the closet had to be made?

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Week three I fell behind as work became more and more hectic. Tig also started to do the back parking spots, and we felt it was more important to get started on some landscaping while the weather was nice.

I was supposed to have cleaned out our entryway and put in a landing strip. Instead, I tried to design it and until I had more time. While doing some research, I came across this picture from Real Simple Magazine’s website. I liked the idea of having peg rails to hold an assortment of items, from bags, to umbrellas.

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A few weeks ago, I sketched out a plan for the entryway and painted two sets of hooks to get ready. Since then, we’ve worked on half of the plan.

Here is our blank wall in the front study room.

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We’ve been pretty behind on our Apartment Therapy stuff, which is exactly what the authors warned against. In our defense, I will say that this is not just one-bedroom-apartment therapy, we have a whole house and a basement and attic, as well as a miniature front and backyard (which desperately needs some landscaping help).

At any rate, we did not do a full scale cleanup of our study. Instead, I had to narrow the focus to building shelves, which we sorely need. Our butler’s pantry has these decent looking brackets, which I copied for our bookshelves.

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The shelves were cut a week ago. Now we finish it.

First a little routing for some bracket hardware.

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A few weeks ago, we finally mounted our panaromic picture of the Eiffel Tower in the study.

And thanks to digital photography I’ve got a lot more pictures. I’ve put some underneath the clear plastic covering of the back desk.

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