I'm not fond of rework, but sometimes it has to be done

As my dear blog friends on the east coast are suffering the effects and aftershocks of an earthquake that made history, I have reached what doesn't seem like a very important milestone in my own city. Yesterday our temperature was 107 F (which broke the previous record), and has made it the second hottest summer in my city's history. Just three more days of 100 F or higher temps, and it will be the hottest summer EVER!! The forecasters are predicting we will set the record by the end of the weekend.

So while my east coast friends put their books back on their shelves and my southern friends continue their long heat and drought, all I can offer are some photos of a bit of rework I performed last week.


I'm not a fan of rework, preferring to do it right the first time. but this shelving had to go. The overall length of the shelves was too long, didn't reach high enough, and the buckets holding the shelving in place took up too much room. In the background is one of my new shelving units. It is exactly the same as the others I have in my hall and the south wall of my studio. As for the trash, I was still collecting it, as you can see by the large box in the photo's foreground.


One nice thing about finally opening most of the boxes was I found most of the poles for my shelves. This is actually one complete and part of a second set of shelves that I had replaced. See here for new shelves I bought for the studio area. Remember, we are in the hallway.



I first got rid of the old shelves, but saved the buckets because they were full of assemblage goodies. Please don't ask how I thought I would get to the contents of these buckets when they were acting as shelf dividers. I think I was more concerned with getting some shelving up than I was in practicality. I have used my stairs and buckets as staging areas, which Bleubeard decided to decimate. Can you see him working his way down the stairs in the above photo?


The shelving was now gone and all the goodies were sitting on the stairs, as Bleubeard worked his way over the baskets and breakables, while I shrunk in chagrin hoping he wouldn't break anything. After he got to the base of the steps, he decided to clean himself. This was when my camera batteries died, even though I continued to work throughout the rest of the day.


This is what the shelves looked like the next day. Perhaps you can see (right back side of photo) the new shelving unit is still not assembled, but still in its original packaging. It was at that time that I went to the studio and did a bunch of rework there, also.


Fast forward to a week ago Wednesday and here is the little area with the shelf unit filled to the brim, the new shelf unit assembled, the rocker in place, and my new gray shelf (on the right side of the photo) assembled and filled. The glass ashtray in the cast iron holder is a drink holder. Only the fan is out of place in this photo and I can't find my other hanger for the second painting that used to hang on the wall (to the left of and above the rocking chair).


Turn around and you can see all three shelves on the south hall wall are now filled. I have brought my fabric down and placed it on the middle shelves for easy access. Most of what you see is old sheets in plastic bags. Sorry the lighting is so bad, but since this is a hallway, I don't need lots of lighting, only enough in case I want to find something special on the shelves. I don't normally need much light, so what I have (15 watt) is sufficient for the hall.


From the other direction, you can see it's still a bit of a mess and all that tissue paper which sits on the top shelf of the closest shelving unit, has taken on a life of its own. I ran out of room to store it standing upright, so added a bag and a plastic container full of it. I really must use it this fall or winter to make fabric paper.



Here is possibly a better view of the south and east sides of the hall. Note I still have a couple of boxes that I have yet to find spaces for.


Also on Wednesday, I brought my chairs to the basement from the kitchen that live on the north side of the hall. Then I placed my small carts back where they belong. I still can't find the hooks that go in my pegboard to hang my art I had placed there before, so I may need to replace those, too.


Here is most of the north and east sides of the hall. Note the box and pan that I still have not unloaded. The door between the shelves and rocking chair goes to my basement full bath. This is enough update today. I'll show more later in the week and I hope you caught yesterday's WOYWW post, too.

I hope everyone is having a good week. It's been fun showing what I've finally accomplished, and contemplating what still needs to be done.