Office Update

I am not sure if this was a good idea or not. And what idea is that? No, not reworking my office as it has needed it for way too long. The bad idea was to put my progress up on the blog. However it does give me something to talk about as not much else is going on.

Anyhow, the shot below was my clean up progress as of Saturday night which actually took until Sunday afternoon. 

Monday (below) is when the action really started. The part where the husband says to the wife... "it has to get worse before it can get better." What is missed in any of these pictures are two floor to ceiling bookshelves to the tight that had to be gone through. I am eliminating one set of shelves and used that decision to allow me the freedom to eliminate a number of items that I really have no plans on ever using again. They were just taking up space.

The desk that I have had for twenty two years suffered fatal wounds and is being reincarnated as two roller drawer assemblies. The first problem I ran into was the metal on the bottom of the cabinets was really thin and would not support the wheels by itself. So out to the shop I went and came back with four 3/8" plywood planks to mount the wheels to and subsequently to the metal boxes.

Sounds easy but it took one trip to Harbor Freight (wheels), one trip to the locals hardware store for nuts and bolts, and one trip to Home Depot for more nuts and bolds when I figured the initial plan was not going to work and longer bolts were going to be necessary.

The plan is to have the work platform wall mounted and be able to move the various floor units around for easy cleaning.  Time will tell on that idea!

Tomorrow morning will be used to mount the wheel son the other box and take the dogs to get groomed before our daughter and son-in-law show up for Thanksgiving. That may put a damper on my office progress until Monday when I can spend the las week of my vacation getting as far as I can on the project.

Ok... So why is it a bad idea to put this up on the blog. For some reason there is a certain level of cyber-accountability. There it is! I said it, now I have to do it. The pressure is on. All in all this is phase one of the project as there are some needs to use the shop (it is no full blown winter in MI) tools in a larger way than just trimming.

Let's see what I can get done this week.

Cya... Doug