Well… I feel like I am constantly building more storage for me to cram more stuff into our house. Lately I’ve been eyeing the vertical space in the garage. You may remember a few years back I added a bunch of storage to the garage. And that has been working out GREAT. It’s mostly holiday decor and things that I only access occasionally. Unfortunately (fortunately?) I have since acquired a few more items for camping, and I wanted to put things into plastic bins so that I could more easily pack if we want to pull a last minute weekend road trip. Since I don’t need to get to that stuff often, ladder access should be fine (we’ll see). I also needed somewhere to put the big bounce house that our friends (very kindly) gifted us a few years back that has been blocking access to the garage fridge.
Well I have so much scrap wood in the basement I figured I could rig something up on the cheap. I watched a few youtube videos on cantilevered and gallows shelving and decided that was what I would build. This person had a very helpful video. (I did test the arms by hanging from them.) I didn’t buy anything for this shelf. I used Spax #8 2.5″ construction screws to attach the 2×2″ upright portion of the shelves to the wall then screwed on the bracket portion (which was built of some scrap 3/4″ lumber for the arms attached to a 2×4 cut at 45 degree angles). I then used some 1″ plywood for the shelf (mostly – it wasn’t long enough so I had to make do with a less thick piece of plywood for 2/5 of it. I will monitor the warpage of this and will probably end up swapping it out.) I was pretty lazy and didn’t pre-draw up any plans instead measuring the supports and arms to fit what I had for lumber. It still only took me about a half day, even after moving around all the gardening tools.
