Since I was doing a bit of organizing at work this week, it has carried over to my house. This is not a mood I’m usually in, so I decided to take advantage of it and do a little work on my basement. My basement needs a lot of work, so this put a very small dent into it. I’d say I cleaned up about a quarter of the basement. And I’m pretty happy with that.

I put my old kitchen cabinets in the basement, thinking I could use them for storage. I took two that were the same size, screwed them together, put casters on them and some peg board to make myself a tool cart. I also painted the top white to make it easier to find things on it. I’m happy with how it turned out.

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It’s working pretty well. The only problem is using screws on the door to hold the saws isn’t working. I’ll have to put them someplace else.

Then I took the rest of the cabinets and hung them on the walls. (I’m only saving upper cabinets. Base cabinets are useless to me.) This cause my first run to Home Depot. I needed to attach some wood to my cinderblock walls. Since everything is in such a state of disorganization, I couldn’t find my masonry bits. And I found that the key to replace bits on my masonry drill is missing. So, I bought the right size bit and a new key.

Since I was hanging the cabinets by myself, they’re not perfect. But I really don’t care. They’re good enough for some extra storage.

Here’s how things look in the part of the basement that I cleaned today.

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This was good to do because I found a couple of things that I want to do down there.

  • Buy a really nice workbench
  • Add more lights on the switch
  • Dust collection system is desperately needed, will have to research that.
  • Means of organizing drill bits