Getting Ready for the next step

[dreamshark]

I had the long weekend for a leisurely transition between insulation installation and floor sanding. You'd think there would be nothing to it, since the furniture was already cleared out of the main room for the insulation, right? But no, there were two overlapping areas involved. For the insulation job I piled all the furniture into the paneled gable on the north side. That was pretty easy because you could just slide the furniture - no maneuvering through doorways or lifting things onto that stupid 2-level floor in the back. But now we need to get everything out of the front room entirely to do the floor, so more moving and lifting and carrying. Before I got around to emptying the room I had the rest of the weekend for things like this:  assembling my first new storage shelf in the back room (before it filled up with banished furniture).

This is a Gladiator EZ-Connect shelving set, 6' x 3' x 18"  It is perfect. I was able to assemble it all by myself with only my trusty rubber mallet. The rubber mallet IS essential however - otherwise I don't see how anybody could get all the pieces to seat completely. So the "no tools" promise is not quite true, but almost. The nifty wooden back panel is not part of the shelf. I had a bunch of old pine paneling that I think came from Barb Jensen's attic many years ago that I keep intending to use to cover the walls back here. This chunk (an old door, I think) just happened to be the same size as the shelf. I nailed it to the attic studs and set the shelf up in front of it.