Ran out of room, had to build a new shelf!

Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

I got a burr to build a new shelf on Sunday. I was running out of room in my playhouse and the former 'sewing corner' was taking up valuable potential plant space. So off to HD I went.
My ultimate goal it so have water piped out here, so I have a crew coming in the next week to dig a trench and I'll install a water line. I found a utility sink built into a cabinet that will fit nicely in the corner. No more trips to the house with buckets so I can water my plants! I also found a 2 gallon hot water heater so I can get warm water. It will fit under the sink.

Here's some shots of my project. Here's the corner after moving the sewing table to storage. (p.s. this is the corner of my playhouse, the one DH built for me as an 'office' but yea right, it's my like I'm a kid, and this is my fort!)

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Down come the prints and up goes the cross brace. I had to remove all the boards on the wall to find the studs. Lucky for me the holes in the braces matched the stud placement! This piece makes it so I don't have to individually level all the upright brackets.

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Now the brackets go up. This part was easy, leveling the top brace tested my patience, since I was doing this project alone. DH was off playing disc golf in the mountains!

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

The first two shelves go up on the shelf brackets. Again, pretty easy now. I'll eventually put in one more shelf. But will wait until I get my utility sink put in to see about space etc.

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Up go the lights. Had to get the mac-daddy ladder out to install the top light, had to put hooks into the rafters for that one.
Wont be long now... here come the plants.

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Ta Da!

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Didn't take long to fill 'er up!

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Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Pretty soon it will be full of AV babies and veggie starts!!! I can taste those ripe tomatoes now!

Silver Spring, MD

Hurray!!

Dunedin, FL(Zone 10b)

Wow your full of talent ! I love them ! Are those glass shelves ? Excellent work !

Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

No, not glass, just the powder coated white metal closet shelves. I do have some glass shelves, they're in my bedroom and some in my kitchen.
I'm pretty sure I showed them with the Bauer pots on them.

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Dunedin, FL(Zone 10b)

They are both nice. Did you put the white shelves up also ?

Northern California, CA(Zone 9a)

Yea, I'm the handyman in the family. I do it all myself.

Vero Beach, FL(Zone 9b)

Great job Laurie! Loving it!

Nevada, MO(Zone 6a)

Looks so lush! Your streps look great. Good job!

Frederick, MD(Zone 6b)

Fabulous!!! I love the way you hung some pots along the front of the top shelf, too.

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