Saturday we started to do the reorganization of James' hobby room.

It's a bit of a dog's breakfast in there. He has hundreds of plastic models and a lot of book references for the models, plus display shelves for models, and his paperback bookshelf, an oversized, tall set of shelves a friend made for him.

It was the model boxes that were the problem. They are in Xerox paper boxes right now, and filled the closet, with more in front of the closet, and there are boxes of them in the rest of the room so he can't get to the books. After eight years of saying what he'd like to do in the closet, we finally got around to starting.

Some months ago we bought three Closet Maid wire shelves, along with the hardware for mounting them. Saturday after emptying out the closet we realized (a) we could put at least one other shelf in there and (b) the shelves we did have were 2 inches too long. So we brought the three shelves back to Lowe's, had them cut, and bought a fourth (and of course had it cut), and returned home.

After we mounted the shelf bracket supports, it became obvious that there was enough space to put yet a fifth shelf, so after supper we went back to Lowe's yet again and bought a 48 inch, narrower shelf to serve as a top shelf where there isn't quite as much space.

Looks kinda spiffy. James has already started unloading some of the boxes and has the laptop in there to catalog the contents of the closet.

We also bought and put together a DVD tower to serve as an extra set of shelving. We had only a narrow space, so the DVD tower served the purpose just fine. He's storing his spray paint primers there now.

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