NBR - decorating my house a bit

[Tristan.]

My house has a stupid little room that's too small to use for anything
https://i64.tinypic.com/k4gl7b.jpg
Plan was to use it as a study , but I don't work from home or have any need for a study really, so after 4 years of using it to store junk it's time to make it into a thing. Hopefully this should be done by the end of the week and I think BCF will approve

Day 1
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painted the walls and put a foam floor down. Then I briefly considered an alternative use for the room and started looking at prices of ball pit balls. Turns out they're expensive.

Day 2
I got wood
https://i64.tinypic.com/anmurs.jpg
then spent the afternoon making a mess and a bench. Attaching the hoover to the dust vent on the saw does a pretty great job, most of the sawdust came from when the vacuum filled and I didn't notice
https://i63.tinypic.com/s5hkb8.jpg
Those where done over the weekend, so it'll be a bit slower going this week, to get it done by Friday I'll probably be doing some manner of thing every day.

[grr666]

It's a hallway isn't it. It does do something, it leads to and from all your rooms.
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[chickenstrip]

I thought on seeing the thread title in Show & Tell, what does decorating the house have to do with bikes? Maybe you could wheel-spin the bike on a gravel drive and end up with a pebble-dashed wall?

Swap the positions of the window and door and keep your bike in the hallway?
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[doggone]

Assuming that's the staircase you won't want to clutter it up, what happens when you want a new bed or something up there?
There isn't room for much more than a shelf unit you can move aside.

[bladeblaster]

[Tristan.]

pfft, what kind of palatial mansions do you chaps live in that you could write off a space like this as just a hallway, it's about 1/6 of my downstairs space. The estate agents had it listed as a dining room

doggone, the door at the far end of the pics leads outside, so anything going upstairs doesn't come through this room/corridor

Chickenstrip, it will become bike related, but I'm not going to put a bike in here, that's what the front room is for...


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Day 3:
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Second bench builded, This room is where I will keep my collection of benches.
https://i65.tinypic.com/2hn1fv4.jpg
I added wood for extra strength, tomorrow I will start putting things on them and it'll all become clear.

[Just_James]

for sturdy workbench making skills
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[Tristan.]

Day 4

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120kg of finest Chinese cast iron wrestled from my garage into the house.

[DrDonnyBrago]

I foresee oily metal shavings and bench grinder dust in your breakfast cereal...

Nice benches though .

[grr666]

I can't tell from the pics but ifyou haven't already, I'd shoot some long screws through the rear batten into wallplugs
to fasten it to the wall. Especially with machinery on it making it top heavy. Echoed, decent benches.
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[nowhere.elysium]

Colour me envious. Dinner just isn't dinner without a bit of swarf and machine oil thrown in.
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[P.]

I'd definitely be changing that to a ball pit, sick skills though.

[stinkwheel]

Can I suggest you put tack mats at either end to stop you finding swarf absolutely everywhere.
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[bladeblaster]

It's only guess, but, you're not married are you.

[UnknownStuntm...]

Crikey o riley I never realised how much a kitchen needs a lathe until now. I / we / everyone NEEDS to see a properly turned:
-Carrot
-Potato
-Swede
-Parsnip
-Custard
...pretty sharpish like.

[pepperami]

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I can't believe that nobody has asked for the story of the crater on the end wall.

Nice bench, btw.
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[CaNsA]

[Tristan.]

Yeah as Cansa said, check the first pic and you'll see out the window, a pirate ship who shot a cannonball through my wall a few years ago. Actually it's where I concreted the hole left by the flue from the gas fire, I skimmed the outside beautifully but ran out of concrete for the inside

Couple of annoying days, as Grr666 suggested I'd decided to batten the benches to the walls, using anchor bolt thingies, which meant lifting the lathe off the bench, then having to work around it which was a massive pain. Also concrete walls are horrible to drill into so that took ages. I also built a lovely shelf and put some ply under the lathe to give it a more level seat
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Stinkwheel, tack mats are a good idea, not sure how compatible with a dog they are, I guess I'll find out...

Machined carrot will definitely be happening, excellent suggestion sir.

[Nexus Icon]

It reminds me of the house of a crazy mate of my dad's. He does always stink of coolant slurry though, as his entire house is impregnated with the smell.

However, it all seemed very cool when I was a young'un and it still does now. I just wouldn't want it in my own house.
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