So..... I ahve this itsy bitsy tiny house, and I have lots of stuff that
needs to find a place to live. So I'm going to start using that special
third dimension to throw things into :-) To that end I've made a quick
and dirty (but definitely strong, since I don't want to explain to my
insurance company how I totaled my own car in my own garage) storage
space in my garage. And on a positive environmental note, much os the
wood used in this project is wood that I reclaimed from tearing down the
shed in my garage
The pictures are not the best, but it's not a good environment for good
pictures.
This is the shelf mostly up - it actually consists of 5 seperate U's of
wood. These are held to an angle of metal which is in turn fastened to
the rafters. Since the wood is held inside the metal angles (second
picture) any side-to-side motion is checked by the metal.
If you look very carefully at the third support, you'll see that there's
a little piece of wood underneath the vertical support. This is how one
person manages to suspend a 6' length of wood in the air long enough to
screw it in :-)
The diagonal boards across the bottom are *extremely* important. They are
the only thing making my 5 independant supports into one cohesive shelf.
I know this shelf can hold at least 240 pounds, btw, since I hung from it
just to be sure :-) It starts creaking once it's fully loaded and I try
that trick, though. And one last thing - that green rubbermaid container
that you see is never leaving that shelf until I either do a couple
years' worth of upper-body exercises or the movers take it down.
Now, see, wouldn't you say this this project is the second-prettiest I've
ever done, second only to the dresser?
