hanging shelves

i’m getting totally awesome at hanging shelves and stuff. did 5 hours of house work today, with final result being that the entry way and laundry are about 85% efficient (up from what i’d say was 15% at move in time). it was done in stages – laundry hooks and 1/3rd of the closet i cleaned up about 6 months ago, but there was a big “push” today that i’m very happy with. especially because:
1. i really enjoy doing hands-on stuff myself. i mean, i really COULD have bugged/asked/worked with/annoyed tim to do this, but i actually was eager and excited to hang the shelves myself, once i made the decision that it has to be done this weekend.
2. even though it wasn’t perfectly smooth the end result surpassed my expectations
3. assuming no shelves fall overnight (haha, knock knock knock) this set-up really can live as-is until we really need more space.
4. the fact the closet is now organized means i can get the really fancy bag i wanted for ages.

i present the after, alas no before:

and the bag is this one, not sure about color:

the snag in hanging shelves was that i hit concrete. i never drilled into concrete before, so i had to make a homedepot run and figure out with one of the guys there whether i would be able to drill. sadly i needed a hammer drill, even more sadly they didn’t have one that i could rent that would hold the drill bit that i needed, so i just kinda did it with my normal drill. which means that top 2 screws on the rods that support the shelving are … loose. (i wasn’t able to put as much weight into the drilling as the other screws, so the bit didn’t go far into the concrete – maybe 1/4th of an inch). the other 4 screws are at least 1/2 inch into the concrete (plus the useless 3/4 inch drywall + 1/4 inch of the bracket itself).

BUT! it all worked out, again assuming nothing falls, so now the shoes are beautifully organized. (i still have like 5 more pairs of shoes at work, hah).

i have one main challenge left, and that’s scarves. tim and i have about 8 scarves, and 5 hats, and some random number of gloves (~7? not pairs, just 7) between us, and my idea was to hang a rack onto which all the scarves could be looped. except i hit concrete on that wall too, and am out of concrete screws. argh! i was so angry that i went and hung the towel bar in the bathroom. i should get that angry more frequently.

damn you, scarf! (hahahahaha)

5 hours of organizing is painful.

oh yeah, and tim replaced the dinghy shower curtain bar with a new chrome one using his new fancy dremel to cut it. there were MASSIVE SPARKS. metal was cut in our living room. too awesome. so now the bathroom had some mini tiny ultra tiny update, reality is that bathroom update is next on the list.

yay! productive sunday.