Remember this cool thing?
Well. It sat all summer. I used the shelves in the pantry alcove area for my pots and pans (highly inconvenient). But then, this week, probably because the brackets I'm using to install the shelves upon are giving me a royally hard time, I found I had a minute to shout at my friend Jay, the sculptor, who offered to help make the small modifications this marvelous piece of junk needed to become a pot rack... four months ago. He was still game, as luck would have it.
Twenty minutes of welding and grinding later and, voila. The main modification was installing that straight central piece, for stability.
After a few minutes of pacing and fretting to make sure I put the hooks into the ceiling in the right places, it took only about ten minutes to install.
And, I LOVE it! The whole view from the first picture will look a lot better sans clutter. And, actually, now that I mention it, it does bother me a little that it seems to compete with the dining room lights. That might be one of those things that's way less noticeable in person, because I didn't notice it until looking at the picture. We'll see.
And in other news, this is the state of the open (freaking) shelves, which I foolishly thought I'd have done by the end of last week. Pah. Silly human. Oh, sweet chaos of toggle bolts and heavy-duty anchors and tile-cutting drill bits and spade bits and knee pads...
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2 comments:
Genius pot rack thingy!! You are so smart (silly human) to be skilled with all those tools and tile cutting! Looking fabulous!
Thanks, Becky! I'm learning that handiness can be a blessing and a curse-- without skills, it's always someone else's problem. WITH skills, it's MY problem! Glad you like. :)
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