When we moved to the Palouse in 1995, we had a hard time finding a suitable home. As a last resort we purchased the old Kenworthy home -- you know, Kenworthy Theater, Kenworthy Plaza, etc. it was the first house built in this area in 1959, and its way too large for a family of four. One side benefit of that is lots of extra rooms for special purposes. I got a "den" and Nan got a sewing room. Well, her room was a dank dungeon basement room with old moldy carpets and leaking windows.
Well, we finally (after 20 years) got around to fixing up Nan's sewing room. The windows got fixed over a year ago, and we finally moved everything out of that room and replaced the carpet and removed the green crushed velvet from the west wall and re-mudded and painted that wall.
The sewing (quilting, actually) stuff that came out of that room completely filled the other downstairs room, and to avoid cluttering up the new room we decided to put shelves in.
The shelves are simple things with 2"x2" posts on the front holding up plywood shelves of 18" depth, tacked through to the studs on the back wall. It's in there solid. Here's a picture with the shelves in with no trim yet.
Ditto shelves with no trim, from the entry door side.
Done. Here are the shelves with trim and doors. Looks cleans and neat, but I think we have provided space for only about a third of the stuff that needs to go back into this room.
Did I mention this room has a mirrored ceiling. Mirrors were a big decor thing for the Kenworthys. We've taken a bunch out, and were planning on removing these too, but it would have been a lot of work. We were surprised to find that the mirrored ceiling looked a lot better when it was reflecting new carpet and walls.
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