Nick-nack cubby stack, give the hammer a bone!

I have no clue where the year went.  I’ve made no efforts on the basement worth speaking of since the last update, but plan to soon as Santa was very heavy handed with the Lowe’s cards this year. 🙂

In the mean time, one of the bedrooms has been my long-term temporary man-cave since we moved in.  It’s about as manly as it can get, clutter wise that is.  It consists of a corner desk for my rarely used PC, the hide-away couch from my bachelor pad sectional that’s been used maybe twice since we moved in, and 4-5 mis-matched book cases with varying levels of collectables, books, fish supplies, old computer hardware, and yes as the Mrs. likes to point out, just plain garbage. 🙂

As the holiday break approached, I decided it was time to figure out a project to work on, one is typically the twice a year cleaning of the room in question.  I thought to myself, how bout I see if I can do some built in bookshelves for a nicer display of things, and plan ahead for when the office moves to the basement.  I hit the Google and sent the wife some ideas, she liked the ideas and I dusted off Sketchup.

I was more meticulous than usual and planned everything down to the 32nd of an inch.  Of course I had to redo it all once I realized 1/2″ shelving wasn’t going to be available and lumber is always smaller than advertised.  In the end, the plan ended up being 5 shelves on each side, 3-4 over the bed which allows space for a bed to go into the slot once we convert the room to an actual spare bedroom down the road.  Optional are built in drawers/night stands if we don’t do normal store-bought ones.

Phase 1 is complete: get one side up and make sure I can pull it off.  This is less than $70 in material, with almost 1/3 of that being wall anchors beings ~2ft3in shelves don’t allow for hitting more than one stud.  My big ass can almost climb on these things like a ladder! 🙂

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