Building A Storage Room

This is my next shameful area in the house.  You can see my first one here!   My goal is to clean up this old basement, build a storage room,   and close it all off from the rest of the basement while Hubby is out of town.   The other *old* part would be where we could store our wine and beer making equipment and ferment our raspberries.    Before I ever started this blog, Hubby and I broke into the old basement and poured concrete stairs.  This joined the two basements and also made access from the new stairwell to the old basement.

We embed leaves into any concrete pour we do.  I still have to remove the tape from the lower step.  I used two sided tape to adhere the leaves to the form before we poured.  We also did this to the underside of our concrete counter tops in the kitchen.

This is a look at the newish staircase.  It's in the newish basement.

  Now we can kiss these old eyesore stairs GOODBYE!  A crowbar, hammer, safety goggles and earplugs did the job.  Only hit myself once and scraped my leg on a  nail once.  That's a pretty good record for me!

I went to the lumber store and bought 2x4s and plywood.  I had them precut my plywood into strips so that they were easier to handle.  My Ipod loaded with music, the build began.
 You can see that post HERE!  

     This is what you wouldn't like to see but unfortunately I felt the need to share....Please forgive me for subjecting you to this nastiness!  The old basement is covered in this horrible Spanish style texture that sometimes falls off the walls and other times clings on for dear life.  I decided to leave it as the work involved to remove it just doesn't seem to be worth the rewards.  I wish I could be like those really ambitious bloggers with O.C.D.....or better yet I wish one would come for a visit.

The new wall divides this into 2 parts.  It starts where the stairs are on the left and goes to the right, where the yellow little thing is on the right. (peas sheller).  That is where the support beam is too.

Stairs were removed!

This shot is looking in the opposite direction of the stairs.  Not shown in the pictures above.  Wall going up to divide the two areas.

The books were moved from the corner into the wine storage area.  You will see pictures of the camping gear in that corner  later on.  To the left of the books is one of the new shelving units.

Dividing wall built.  I put a switch and two pot lights in the storage area.  This allows plenty of light.  One pot light for each isle.

I used a curtain for the door.  When I decide on what flooring to use, I will install a hinged door......someday!

This mess will become the wine and beer making storage area.

 

These are the center units.  They have units on the backside and form the center row making a total of four units.  There are 2 more units to the right of these.  I have two walking isles...one kind of pictured here with clutter, which will eventually be all cleared out.  Two more units will go on the far wall to the left (not built yet) which is where the other walkway isle is.   This will complete the storage area.

This is the other side of the ones pictured above.  The second walkway isle.  To the left will be the two units that are not built yet.

The camping gear is in this box with casters.  Can easily be rolled to the stairs.  I originally built this for my potatoes.  It was kept in the cold room and had gaps between the board for air circulation.  It worked great.

Wine storage area.  I will probably  never finish the ceiling but stranger things have happened.  I used the old pegboard to the left of the bookshelves to hang some of the wine making equipment. Works great.

Well I sure hope your eyes are OK.   It is an old hand dug basement.  We use it mainly for storage.   To us it is *mostly* organized and a big, enormous, huge improvement.  No more tripping....yay.  Eventually I would like to put in a better floor as the concrete is rough.  But for now, it is DONE!

Cheers!