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Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:40 pm
by edds
My conservatory had turned into a dumping ground with too many plants dumped everywhere and not enough storage meaning stuff was all over the place.
- Before
I worked out we needed a nice strong set up for the plants to go on with plenty of storage underneath. My wife wanted it to look nice.
So we settled on a custom powder coated commercial bench from Two West's with powder coated front panels to hide all the stuff underneath!
It arrived Friday so I moved everything yesterday and cleaned it up.
- Cleared
I then started assembly. The frame was designed to go over the shelf and give me one continuous surface as well as a bit more storage underneath. I also moved the cross pieces between the legs back and had legs every 2ft to attach the panels to. We had it coated with an anthracite colour.
After a bit of fiddling it looked like this.
- Frame
Then with top and panels it looks like this.
- Panels
Then the obligatory strength test..
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:46 pm
by edds
Some plants in place and on a cheap tiered corner stand from eBay.
Still plenty of room (to be filled tomorrow with things from the greenhouse I imagine!).
I still need to fix the panels - I'm planning to glue neodymium magnets onto the frames and panels to fix them in place.
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:58 pm
by el48tel
edds wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 4:40 pm
My conservatory had turned into a dumping ground with too many plants dumped everywhere and not enough storage meaning stuff was all over the place.
PXL_20201128_105249755.jpg
I worked out we needed a nice strong set up for the plants to go on with plenty of storage underneath. My wife wanted it to look nice.
So we settled on a custom powder coated commercial bench from Two West's with powder coated front panels to hide all the stuff underneath!
It arrived Friday so I moved everything yesterday and cleaned it up.
PXL_20201128_120556206.jpg
I then started assembly. The frame was designed to go over the shelf and give me one continuous surface as well as a bit more storage underneath. I also moved the cross pieces between the legs back and had legs every 2ft to attach the panels to. We had it coated with an anthracite colour.
After a bit of fiddling it looked like this.
PXL_20201128_152915351.jpg
Then with top and panels it looks like this.
PXL_20201129_113029821.jpg
Then the obligatory strength test..
PXL_20201129_113136143.jpg
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 5:29 pm
by edds
Thanks Terry. I'm really pleased and so is my wife and you know what they say - happy wife, happy life!
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:02 pm
by colser
Looking great Ed
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:27 pm
by Tony R
Excellent, ED, very smart. Another star for TwoWests too.
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:43 pm
by edds
Thanks guys. Two West's certainly did a great job, even with bespoke instructions for all the slight differences.
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:43 pm
by TimE
That looks really smart, excellent idea
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:28 pm
by edds
Thanks Tim.
Re: Conservatory sort out
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2020 6:38 pm
by Keith H
As others have rightly said, looks very smart.