- Multiple depths?
- Any particular pattern of row heights?
- Screw row heights and go with a box method?
- Haphazard boxes, purpose built or aesthetic built?
- Painted, stained, or raw wood?
- Facing, or whatever it’s called when you have with trim for to the edge of plywood, as in I’m not sure if facing is the word I want and I don’t want to look it up?
- Power integral to the shelves or not?
- Have an area for the computer? A spare file server?
- Shelves on door hinges to double up paperbacks?
- Get back into building the book train idea for the paperbacks? (I had a coworker remind me about that)
- How much load is this going to as to the wall?
- Oh yeah… What bling? Lights, integrated speakers, bronze inlays, relief carvings, motorized rails? You know, bling.
Note
Measure my current shelves, the height needed, distance needed. Also get a range of depths.
Progress was made
I got far enough into the den to find my carboy, so later this week is Brew Day. It also made be think though, “I need to get rid of this crap”. So a bit of a plan.
- Desolder all the things. There’s a lot of them, and most of them aren’t needed.
- Take the closet doors off. They’re not helping, and they take space to open. At a later point they might be replaced with a book shelf secret door. Of course, it should be obvious to anyone, but whatever.
- Shelves in the garage. This will take a Home Despot run. Probably cheap 1×8 and brackets. I might be able to start with just brackets and use up more of my pallet junk.
- Start getting rid of the stupid wire racks that I hate so much. Or put them in the crawlspace for deeper storage?
- Centrally move my worktable. I want to be able to work on multiple sides. Also, putty the living daylights out of it. Come on Peter, rough cut is neat, but a pain to work on. Either putty or some other flattening option.
- More shelves on the far wall. I think these ones will need to be custom though as I want them to house all sorts of goodness. Beer brewing. Sewing machine. Kegerator? Soldering station. Etc. Cabinet doors wouldn’t be a bad idea either. Another run or three to the Despot. I should relook at Becky Stearns’ video about they plywood shelving.
- Window box for plants. Inside.
- Start trimming the bulk metal from my desk. Or incorporate my desk into the sleeves and recycle the hunk of junk.
- What’s under the carpet? Can I talk the carpet and get to work, or do I need to do a lot before it could be functional?
Further
Put the contents of the boxes, which are going to have to be square if not cubes, in circles. This way…
Wait. They’ll have to be circles in circles. Linkage between to keep the spacing. Inside each circle is a free wheeling circle. The circles will have bearing mounts on the (back? sides?). The fronts will have linkage to their neighbors. I think this will work. Power will still be an issue. That and volume. Did I save space?
I think this idea still needs work.
I’m also not all about the idea itself. Not the rails. Not the motion. Not the mechanics.
I think I just like the idea of reduced footprint. I could do a reduced footprint to a much lesser scale with a chain hoist. Seeing as how my operating height, assuming a standing position is about 3.5 -5.5 feet, then I could have three units that too up the space needs of one.
It’s an idea.