Miranda’s Shelves

The cold snap broke yesterday, meaning that for the first time in over a week, the temperature in the garage was… habitable. The jar of pickles sitting on my workbench froze, for heck’s sake. 🥶

Miranda made some decisions about additional shelves for her room. It’s taken a while and I think getting a bunch of new books for her birthday and Christmas was the instigating event. So she measured it all out, found the basic idea on the Ikea website and then we talked about it. We agreed that making shelves would be stronger, if more work and a bit more expensive. On Saturday, she and I went to Home Depot and got the hangers and the wood, and Sunday we started work.

First to go up were the wall mounts. Lots of time sweating the details so that they would all be level and even and over the wall studs. The only fly in the ointment was that one of the mounts that we’d bought was bent. Miranda noticed it and so we made a quick trip back to Home Depot to replace it.

By lunch the temperature was flirting with zero, so we put the heater in the garage and left the inside door open to try to get it a little warmer out there. In the end, it was “sweater-level” warm. We used some of the leftover paint from Miranda’s room trim to paint.

The final construction happened close to nine at night. The shelves are empty for a little bit until some books arrive, which will be good for the paint to cure. I’ll post another picture with the shelves full.

Updated

Miranda has now arranged her books for display…