So, I mentioned that I was going to paint the workbench area. It was dark and disorganized and pretty much a giant mess where we couldn't find anything.
And somehow it looked even worse in person. Just super dirty. And dark. Probably the darkest corner of the basement. We had stuck up one of those weird fake battery powered light bulb things. Well, I ran down to the basement last night and it had fallen completely off the ceiling. Good thing I had already bought a new light.
So last night we worked on painting part of the shelves. And installing my new light. I had initially thought we could just use regular screws to mount it to the beam directly above the workbench. Um, turns out that beam is metal. So we got creative. It's super rigged, but my light is up and the corner is so much brighter! I just picked up one of those fluorescent lights that you plug in, like people often use in the kitchen under the upper cabinets. Of course there's no outlet at the workbench so the cord runs across the ceiling to an outlet on the other side of the room. It gets the job done though.
And a third of my shelves are painted. This picture is just my start from the other night. The top two shelves are painted now as well. I'm working in sections so that I don't have to dump everything off into the floor. I'm hoping to get the whole workbench finished this week/weekend so that I can tackle other parts of the room.
Then there is going to be sweeping. A whole lot of sweeping. I had to sweep the shelves off before I could even wipe them down. I'm pretty sure they had never been cleaned. So gross! And then I'm going to sweep the crap out of that floor. I can't even think about how gross it is.
What have you guys been up to? Anybody else tackling any kind of gross projects?
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