Furniture Assembly Line

 I had 3 custom rolling shelves to make in order to complete the furniture needed, so I started up an assembly line of sorts to complete them all. I cut all the pieces to size, drilled all the dowels, ironed on the melomine edging, and had them all ready to go for gluing and assembly. It felt like I was assembling my own ikea furniture.

Ready to iron on edging.

Progress of the pieces.

All ready for assembly.

First panels glued.

Clamped.

All sections glued and clamped.

All cleaned up and ready for use.

While I was at it, as the tables are so deep (3 feet) I was able to add some hidden below desk shelving in order to utilize all the space available. I was able to screw some side supports to the existing desk support and cut some more melamine shelves to fit in. Was able to make them 16" deep too, which still left plenty of space underneath with no worry of hitting knees/shins.

Existing support on left, and new support added to frame for the right side.

Fits in well flanked by rolling shelves.

A full look at the big desk with lower shelf... all populated.

Right desk all complete.

And left desk all complete.

Furniture

 Just been making furniture to house all the tools and materials for the she-shed studio. All I know is, melamine is not super easy to work with, and I don't know how many hundreds of feet of melamine edging I've gone through so far, and I'm not even halfway done with making all the furniture.

Here's some pictures of the finish products.

4'x4' fabric holder. Plus pegboard installed.

Completed shelving. Made two 2'x4' boxes basically.

I've only got final photos. The Fabric holder is made with a combo of melamine and pine. The big shelves are all melamine with a pine support at the top to attach them to the walls. I also got some 10" deep metal shelf supports under the shelves at each stud. All the joints are glued like crazy and screwed together with melamine screws. As they are really heavy and are supposed to hold books, etc - I wanted to make sure they weren't going to fall apart / come crashing down.

A whole lot of work

 Been working on the shed, now to the point of calling it the studio, so much lately that it's been hard to think about anything else. After completing the ceiling, I moved onto lighting, flooring, window casing, moulding around the doors and baseboard. 

Tiffany lights with flanking "spider" lights.

Flooring all done and it went pretty quick.

Small window before.

After!

Larger window all done.

After all that, I had to redo the mini-split, as when I tried to set it all up, and could hear a major leak pouring into the studio. After pulling it off the wall I discovered the nylog-blue stuff all over the place (probably used too much) and one of the fittings wasn't very tight. The fix was drilling a hole through the wall for the copper pipes on the other side of the mini split, so that the fittings could be joined on the outside of the studio (instead of within the back of the unit on the inside of the studio). Then I had to pay thousands for an HVAC company to refill the unit, and test / tighten everything up properly. But... it works now. An expensive mistake.

Then - onto desk construction, which I may have over-engineered, as they are so solid I can lay ontop of them. They'll probably hold several hundred pounds without an issue, which is impressive as they are "floating" with no supports to the ground and they are only tied into the walls.

Corner clamps to keep it secure while fastening together.

Frame all assembled.

Support leg cutout.

Screwed and bolted into the wall.

Both sewing desks made.

Not going anywhere with some 3 1/2" 1/4" bolts.

Melamine top cut to fit ontop.

Larger desk frame attached.

With top.

After that, it was all finishing work on the desks, paint and touchup of the trim work and poly on the window casings. 

Made a jig to round over the table corners. (Template was a tupperware top).

Clamped in and corner cut with a router.

All done. Supports painted and pine wrap added.

It floats!

Just used melamine glue to keep the top secure.

And now just need to make some shelving and the rest of the storage. You can see the little under-desk shelf I created that has wheels so it can move about if necessary.

Still need to make three more. This took a while.