Winter project: Home basement workshop.

[ProjectBazza]

In our old place I built myself a "workshop" of sorts down in the lower level that fit our needs perfectly (bike repair, jukebox restoration, light home repair tools, etc):

Picture above is pretty early in the process, before I had added and finalized a number of things, but of course, right when we got things set-up perfectly, we moved....

And now I'm starting all over again.

No pics of this new space when we first moved-in, but here's one after I had spray-foamed the walls and we were using it as a storage room:

And one I took just now (I'm cutting-out and installing the peg board today):

Sure wish I had the 16' width of the old place rather than this 11' wide space, but whaddayagonnado?

 

[ProjectBazza]

Finished the pegboard installation this morning.

Can't find all of the hooks yet, and we're missing one light fixture, but my wife is digging through the remaining moving boxes while I'm trimming this out.

 

[Yunick13]

Stupid me for asking, but while you had the pegboard off, why didn't you run a wire off of your outlets to a switch, to power another outlet to plug in your under cabinet lighting? Currently, you lost use of one outlet to power your light, plus have a chord hanging down from the light that could get tangled up in other projects.

Looks pretty good otherwise

 

[Scott_ 69HemiDart]

A lot more counter space with the new set-up............... I like it, well done.

 

[ProjectBazza]

Stupid me for asking, but while you had the pegboard off, why didn't you run a wire off of your outlets to a switch, to power another outlet to plug in your under cabinet lighting? Currently, you lost use of one outlet to power your light, plus have a chord hanging down from the light that could get tangled up in other projects.

Looks pretty good otherwise

Uh....Because I never thought of it?

When we bought the place this was just a cold, dark storage room in the basement, with a single 60 watt bulb in the ceiling and uninsulated walls. I ran a separate, dedicated circuit for the space, as the only outlet in there was "scabbed-in" by the previous owner (or a half-assed electrican), and I never considered adding a separate outlet, or feed, for the lights above the workbench.

But all is not lost! I will be adding an overhead bath exhaust fan into the space soon, and since the ceiling is open I can easily run power from the fan over to a new j-box, above the cabinets, for the lights.

Great idea, thank you!

 

[4spdragtop]

Marantz! Nicely done! What's the "over/under" on how many days before it turns into "pegboard of chaos "??

 

[ProjectBazza]

Marantz! Nicely done! What's the "over/under" on how many days before it turns into "pegboard of chaos "??

Normally I would agree with you, but this time....

For Christmas my wife gave me a homemade Gift Certificate stating she would help me "find, sort, arrange, and keep organized" (emphasis mine) all of the tools going into the new workshop in the basement. Nice gesture, but what you don't know is that she works from home, this new space is right across the hall from her office, and she's a "neat freak". Once things are put up there, I know from past experience (our old place) it's going to stay that way!

Of course I'm not going to let her get anywhere near the shed/shop (outbuilding) once I finish insulating that this summer!