Recent content by Sharpy86

I don't think my wife needs any further encouragement!

Here are a couple of photos of the middle drawer that I made last week Still need to fix down and level the middle and largest drawer, make and fit the drawer fronts, and paint. I was planning to use Sikkens Rubbol BL Primer and BL Satura paint for finishing, painted by hand. I would love...

Thanks for the comments all, its turning out better than I ever expected! Let's hope I can finish it well. As for the gas valve, I will ensure that it is still able to be turned fully off when I fit the rails for the largest drawer. If I needed to get to the valve in an emergency, I plan to...

Saturday 24th May With my friend back over, our aim of the day was to make the middle drawer. However, heavy rain put a stop to building anything outside, so we decided to try and get the smallest drawer secured and level. The floor under the stairs slopped in from the wall, which meant that we...

Saturday 3rd May - Cont After celebrating the success of the first drawer with a spot of lunch (it was about 3pm by this point though!) and some tea, we set out with our new found confidence to make the largest of the 3 drawers, which will ultimately hold coats by means of hooks. With time...

Saturday 3rd May Today was when I started work on the drawers. My friend had borrowed a van from his work, so that we could pick up the MDF - 3 sheets of 18mm, 1 sheet of 12mm, 1 sheet of 6mm. The 3 sheets of 18 was for the construction of the drawers. The 12mm is for the front of each drawer -...

Further Prep I forgot about Before I could start anything, I had to remove what was there before. A block wall, with a small door giving access under the stairs You can probably see what's wrong with the storage offering before: All out, note the white planked staircase I had a carpenter in...

Planning / Preparation / Research One of my real talents (?) is that before I do, buy or make anything, I like to do as much research on it before starting - and making the under stairs storage was no exception. After initially planning on making a large cupboard with double opening doors, I...

Hi all, I've been working on this storage for about a month now, on and off, and thought I would share a mini blog on its progress so far. I've enjoyed reading others, and am always amazed at the quality of what I see. Hopefully by sharing this, I can learn new ways and methods from some of...

I don't have one at the moment, no. However, if people are interested, I have taken a few photos that I could share. I'm 'working' from home tomorrow, so will have the perfect opportunity to put something together.

Stimpi this is looking really good - thanks for posting. This is looking a lot more technical than my project so far - which isn't suprising! I'm making mine out of MDF sheets, and have so far made the carcases (3 of them). I will then fit a shaker style front on each drawer (a bit like how a...

Hi Stimpi, I've been browsing this forum for about a year now, and have only just registered because of your next project. I'm currently in the progress of doing pretty much the same thing under my stairs at the moment. I'm very novice at carpentry, having never actually made anything...