When we moved into our home almost three years ago, the previous owners left behind a workbench in the unfinished part of the basement. Not just any workbench mind you, its the WORKBENCH OF DOOM!!!
Its about six to eight inches higher than your average table or desk, three feet deep and eight feet long, made out of steel beam frame and 3/4 inch plywood sheets for the top and one shelf underneath. This thing is mammoth.
At first I thought it was great, but over time I found a lot of things I don't like about it. I can't reach the part nearest the wall very easily. Shelves on the wall behind it require me to get a stool to reach it and then I knock things off the bench itself. My comfy workchair is too low to work at it. The area underneath is a black hole of pack ratting and dust. It blocks off space on to one side. Wasted space on top of it gets filled with junk.
This year I started to plan how to replace it with a much more feasible small desk for my painting and shelves for storage. The ideas floated in my head but another part said "you'll never do it, you'll procastinate until its too late and its time to move..."
But this Saturday I went downstairs to clean up the latest growing mess from that Bench O' Doom and finally had enough. The cleaning up turned into cleaning out. It took me almost all of Saturday and a good part of Sunday, but the bench is gone, moved out in pieces to the garage. A pound or two of dust also exited the premises. I'm so stoked about the next step, finding a new painting desk and planning how to get shelves in there.
The Workbench of DOOM has met its match.
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it's still kinda weird going into the laundry room and not seeing the workbench there...it looks good though...and will look even better once we get some shelving in.
btw...I've got to wonder how long the pieces left from the bench o'doom will be sitting in our garage before heading to their final resting place. :P
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