Until I retired, I had little opportunity to fully enjoy woodworking, although it is something I always wanted to be able to do more. Once my days became my own, I started carving out parts of our basement to create a shop and to outfit it with better tools. To contain the dust and mess, I hung sheets of plastic to separate the shop area from other parts of our basement. I thought many times about building a nice wall to better partition the basement and to create a nicer look, but I just never seemed to get around to it. Until now, that is!
This ends up being one of those projects that I wish I had done long ago. My shop is now a little larger, and I'll be able to organize it much better, since positioning things by or hanging things on that "plastic wall" just didn't work very well. Below you can see the results. I put a window in the wall to provide for better light distribution (and so that folks could spy on me), and I used a French door so that I could have a good wide space for moving things in and out. Both areas of the basement, the shop and the utility/laundry room, look much nicer. Now I can get back to work on all those other projects I've wanted to do.
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