Finally got the shelves I have been meaning to build up a few months ago. The shelves are made from the same materials I used to build out trade show booth back in March.
After the show I took apart the booth and the the metal sat in the parking spot for the Subaru for a few months. (What good is having a garage if you are scraping ice off your car in the morning anyway.) And finally we had had it so I got to putting up the shelves. It was much easier making shelves than it was designing a trade show booth but in the end both of them I though turned out rather nice. After the shelves went up it was time for the 2nd addition to the Garage. The work bench. 
Any respectable do it your self home owner needs a work bench. (especially if your wife is tired of you using the kitchen table to drill, solder, carve, build, glue, hammer, etc... on.) As luck would have it my father was adding onto their studio and so there was plenty of scraps, 2x4s and plywood. So we got to building. The only measuring I did was to see how deep I wanted the bench to be. Too deep and we couldn't park the car in the garage. Too shallow and it would be useless as a workbench. So I got it just right. The cars have just enough room so you can barely squeeze through. The actual construction of the bench was rather a improvisation. With all the different scraps of 2x4 we would grab what looked like worked and then just threw a few extra nails or screws in it to compensate for the lack of Measuring or structural planning. As we were building I could just see in my mind my Grand dad shaking his head and saying "Brother have I not taught you better?" But at the end of the day it is a sturdy bench and it looks like there was some serious thought put into it. This brings us to the cabinets. Yesterday I took 20 min and put up the two big units I had. They are going to work out great. I maybe mounted them a little high but thats ok I like having plenty of room to work on the bench. I will just have to get a little step stool for the high selves. Right now there is about every tool and light I have apart all over my bench so it's a mess but now that I have my shelves I can put things away.... I just have to wait for another 3 months to do that. Up and coming projects of the house will be a new laminate wood floor in the Kitchen/dinning/living rooms. The have the wood ordered and I should start pulling up old nasty carpet sometime next week. So we will see what adventures await us there.
