Shop Regenesis: Paint Cabinet

[Steve Aiken]

Well, I am starting to get excited...I've been working away in a very cluttered basement shop for 6 years now. Other projects, like a daughter's hope chest and a complete kitchen renovation took the priority in terms of both time and money. Now I'm beginning to focus on a complete shop rebuild.

I want the shop to be:
1. Clean
2. Organized
3. Efficient
4. Visually appealing...dare we say even a fun place to hang out

I'm expecting it will take about a year to complete the major pieces of this project:

1. Clear out room for the dust collector (a.k.a. build a paint cabinet)
2. Install the Dust Gorilla
3. Paint floor with 2-part epoxy paint
4. Build a stud wall and insulate, move another stud wall
5. Upgrade the shop electricals
6. Build a floating torsion-box bench/ mitersaw station
7. Connect dust collection ductwork
8. Plumb shop for air compressor
9. Build a fastener storage cupboard
10. Build a handtool storage cupboard
11. Build a clamp rack
12. Build several rolling workstations/ storage units
13. Build router station

Of course there's more to the plan, but those are the basic steps. I'll share photos and a few lessons I'll learn along the way.

Pic 1:
So......I needed to clear out a whole bunch of clutter from some shelves that came with the house when we bought it 6 years ago....
Pic 2, 3:
Show the 'goods' that were able to fit into the completed cabinet

[Steve Aiken]

Here are a few pics of the paint cabinet....

PS. I have measured drawings if anyone needs/wants them

[Howie French]

very nice cabinet Steve, looks well thought out.
1 down , 12 to go.

Howie

[Jim C Bradley]

Steve,
That is one neat looking (and useful) cabinet. I have to store all of my paints and similar products out of the shop in a shed. I can't imagine the handiness of opening a drawer and lifting out a can of paint thinner.
I know you will really, really enjoy it.

Jim Bradley

[Art Mulder]

Wow, Steve. I don't think I would ever have imagined individual "cubbies" for each can of paint, yet it looks very handy.

Lot of weight there, do you have it bolted to the wall?

One suggestion: If you resize your photos to about 800x600 pixels, and save with the quality setting around 85%, you'll usually get them under the size limit for this forum. More importantly, it'll give us MUCH larger photos to look at so we can pick up more details.

thanks
...art

[Steve Aiken]

Thanks, Art, for the tips on posting pics...I'll try that next time.

Yup, bolted pretty securely through 1/2 inch back.

Steve

[Kevin Johnson]

Nice job Steve. I need to do the same thing for my paint cans. You said that you had a measured drawing? - thanks

[Steve Aiken]

Yup, I'd be happy to send the measured drawings to anyone who is interested -- just send me a private message with your email address. The file is 1,023KB and it is in Adobe PDF format.

The reason for the individual 'cubbies', Art, was partly an attempt at providing order, and partly because I wanted to use a torsion box design so I could use thinner materials.

I designed the plans so that you can build 'cubbies' for either gallon cans or quart cans, or even a mix of both. In my cabinet, I designed one of the drawers so that the dividers are removable on one side so I can convert from quart to gallon size, if I ever need to do so....

Steve