I know that I have not finished the dressing room, and after that, I still have to finish the lobby of the bedroom suite, our bedroom and the modifications in the bathroom of the hall. And yet, I still like to plan in advance and know where I tell myself after my current project.
In what I would really love to concentrate after the end of the suite of our room is our new kitchen. I would love nothing more than jump with both feet and start starting things, install new windows, knock down the wall that separates the breakfast room from the pantry, and above all, cutting the wall that currently separates the pantry from the studio bath to create that pantry.
If you are totally lost at this time, let me go back a bit. This is the current design of our house …
You can see the current design of our kitchen, living room (breakfast room), pantry and my half studio bath. These areas will change quite dramatic.
So this is where I will go with the new plan …
Ignore the gym at home, the visitation bath and the living room in the back of the house for now. That addition will come to the last. Before building that addition, I will turn our current kitchen into a dining room, the Breakfast Room and the current pantry will become our new kitchen, and the half bath of the study will become a pantry for direct access from the rear doors of the studio (which leads to the garage) to the kitchen.
Anyway, they have no idea how much I want to go directly from the suite of our room to immerse yourself in the new kitchen project. But after three months of working in my closet, which has been my biggest construction project to date, and knowing that the kitchen will be even bigger since I plan to build the entire cabinet from scratch, there is no way that I can jump to that project without configuring my workshop first.
This closet project has almost made me. I cut all the plywood for closet cabinets in my hands and knees in the garage.
I have a table saw, but it is just a small and portable table mount moment, I would also have to do all those on the floor of La Carpasto.
In addition, none of my tools have permanent houses or permanent rolling cars, so I have to collect them and move them when I need to change one tool for another in the two work tables that I have, which are nothing more than folding tables. All that collection and exchange is a real discomfort, so half of the time, I finish using my table saw or groin saw while I am kneeling on the floor of the garage too.
Then, the sequels of my three -month closet project resemble the sequels of a tornado tearing our garage. Our garage that looked so tidy and clean earlier, and that was as convenient and usable as a real garage …
… now it looks like a complete disaster area after my three -month construction project …
I want my garage to come back. Every time Matt needs to get out of that door, I have to spend about 10 minutes moving things out of the way, which completely defeats the purpose of having that specific and convenient concrete ramp for him.
So, for pure necessity, I not only need to spend a couple of days here that all these sequelae of closet are cleaned, but I need permanent storage. I need to create a plan for my workshop and implement it. And it must be done before starting with another great project in our house. And it must also be done so that I can get all my tools and supplies from the glazed terrace. That will be a big step to prepare and empty that room so that we can finally tear it down (which I talked here).
The good news is that I have an 18 ‘x 27’ workshop to work now, and the interior of that workshop is a completely blank.
It is not so empty at this time. 😀 I have basically been using it as a storage room so far, but much of what is there will remain there. You only need to organize in cabinets, drawers, etc. Many things can be given or selling.
Then, in recent days, I spent my free time (that is, a few minutes here and there throughout the day) Videos of attraction on how to configure a workshop and make a list of everything I need for my own workshop. My favorite video so far It has been this. The things that emphasize are:
- Put everything, tools, cars, tables – in wheels. That way, they can move easily, and can even move them out of the workshop to extend their work area. That would work very well since I have a garage right there, so I could wear something and then easily return to the workshop.
- Have a portable dust collection system. Actually, use your shopvac as your dust collection system, but it modified it so that the dust is collected in a separate container to extend the useful life of your shopvac, and both parts are in a rolling cart that can be easily moved.
- Install a dust filtration system for any dust in the air.
Anyway, sell a complete course on how to configure a workshop, and I am, since your video was my favorite I have seen, I am considering buying this course to be able to think about all the details and find an action plan.
I have to admit that this project overwhelms me. I have wanted a workshop for at least two decades, and although it emphasizes that it is not important to make it perfect the first time, everyone knows me well enough to know that the idea of not having something well makes me feel a bit paralyzed. If I can’t do it well, I prefer to avoid it. But this is something that I cannot avoid for much longer, and I certainly can’t start in another great project until this is done. However, I have to admit that his suggestion of putting everything on the wheels makes me feel much better with the whole matter. The idea of building things permanently, and having to select the perfect place for everything, is what made me feel very insecure above all. I love the idea of being able to move everything and reorganize things as I need.
So that’s where I will go as soon as the suite of our room ends. Fortunately, our bedroom will not have any huge project that requires a workshop, so I can move on and do it. I will be building two night tables for the bedroom, but they are small enough so that I can do them quite easily in the garage. You may have to put my knees to cut some plywood for them, but hopefully, those will be the last projects for which I will have to do that.
But once that workshop is over, I will jump to the kitchen project. That keeps me motivated. I am probably more excited about that new bigger kitchen with the tour pantry than I on my dressing room. But the good things that expect … and those who do things in the right order. 🙂
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