Slight pegboard dilemma at post 200
I've been working on my craft room (okay, junk room until recently) lately because of the servers having problems on Warcraft. They came back up, and I was still in there working. I'd just had a brainstorm on a slightly better way to arrange the room. And I took out two shelving units (albeit crummy, unstable ones) to do it.
I moved my big gray cupboard over in the corner and now the room is a little more open feeling because it isn't the first thing blocking your path when you enter the room. I also moved the perpetually junk-covered card table from there and moved it where the cupboard was.
(Pardon me if I misstype because Quincy is in my lap at the moment, being a big whiny crybaby. I know, I said I wanted an affectionate lapdog... and he is to the extreme LOL.)
Doing all this alone, of course, because I can't get any help from my family for this sort of thing. I called my brother just to ask him about the pegboard (I have my own freaking drill... wasn't gonna ask him to actually HELP me) and he wouldn't answer his cell phone. He always has his cell phone with him, and it's always on. I can just hear him now, "I don't wanna know WHAT she wants me to do." He and Dad and his son get all wrapped up around each other, and completely ignore the rest of the family most of the time.
The dilemma... how do I hang up the 2x4 sheet of pegboard? If I do it horizontally, I'm going to lose a lot of hanging holes because of the wood used to attach it to the wall 1x2s). If I hang it vertically, it'll go nearly to the ceiling, and I won't be able to reach up and get stuff without a stepladder. And I'll still lose the same amount of holes on the sides as vertical supports (2 row of them on each side!!). I guess that's what's bothering me the most. Losing all that space and not being able to reach up easily for what I want. It was my intention to hang wrapping paper up there on rolls for easy access.
Maybe I should just hang it right above the wainscoting horizontally, and leave the bottom free. Surely with the sides framed in it'll be okay? Then I could always go back for another piece and stack it on top if I needed to.
And another thing.... do I need to be paranoid about studs? The whole freaking wall is paneled, and I assume THAT is secured so tightly into the studs that not even demolition will shake it loose.
I'll tell you what I did do that has been successful. I replaced the bulbs in that room with compact fluorescents. My brother says he still hasn't gotten used to the way my house looks with that bright light, but I see better and I told him I just can't stand all the "yellow" light of traditional light bulbs anymore. I kind of solved the problem of the "true light" bulbs being too blue and the "daylight" bulbs being too yellow though. If you have two sockets in your light fixture, put one of each in. Then you get nice, bright, "normal" looking light for your rooms. The blue and the yellow sort of blend together and give you plain old white, at least visually.
I still need to do some bulb swapping in the kitchen though... One fixture has two yellow bulbs and one has two fluorescents... it's kind of a freaky effect.
I moved my big gray cupboard over in the corner and now the room is a little more open feeling because it isn't the first thing blocking your path when you enter the room. I also moved the perpetually junk-covered card table from there and moved it where the cupboard was.
(Pardon me if I misstype because Quincy is in my lap at the moment, being a big whiny crybaby. I know, I said I wanted an affectionate lapdog... and he is to the extreme LOL.)
Doing all this alone, of course, because I can't get any help from my family for this sort of thing. I called my brother just to ask him about the pegboard (I have my own freaking drill... wasn't gonna ask him to actually HELP me) and he wouldn't answer his cell phone. He always has his cell phone with him, and it's always on. I can just hear him now, "I don't wanna know WHAT she wants me to do." He and Dad and his son get all wrapped up around each other, and completely ignore the rest of the family most of the time.
The dilemma... how do I hang up the 2x4 sheet of pegboard? If I do it horizontally, I'm going to lose a lot of hanging holes because of the wood used to attach it to the wall 1x2s). If I hang it vertically, it'll go nearly to the ceiling, and I won't be able to reach up and get stuff without a stepladder. And I'll still lose the same amount of holes on the sides as vertical supports (2 row of them on each side!!). I guess that's what's bothering me the most. Losing all that space and not being able to reach up easily for what I want. It was my intention to hang wrapping paper up there on rolls for easy access.
Maybe I should just hang it right above the wainscoting horizontally, and leave the bottom free. Surely with the sides framed in it'll be okay? Then I could always go back for another piece and stack it on top if I needed to.
And another thing.... do I need to be paranoid about studs? The whole freaking wall is paneled, and I assume THAT is secured so tightly into the studs that not even demolition will shake it loose.
I'll tell you what I did do that has been successful. I replaced the bulbs in that room with compact fluorescents. My brother says he still hasn't gotten used to the way my house looks with that bright light, but I see better and I told him I just can't stand all the "yellow" light of traditional light bulbs anymore. I kind of solved the problem of the "true light" bulbs being too blue and the "daylight" bulbs being too yellow though. If you have two sockets in your light fixture, put one of each in. Then you get nice, bright, "normal" looking light for your rooms. The blue and the yellow sort of blend together and give you plain old white, at least visually.
I still need to do some bulb swapping in the kitchen though... One fixture has two yellow bulbs and one has two fluorescents... it's kind of a freaky effect.
posted by Me at 4:17 PM
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