I’m just curious: how many readers of this blog actually look at products and see the potential of making it yourself because you have the confidence to do so? There is a balance between the time you’d have to commit to a project, but I often find that when I see things that are straight forward to construct that I have a hard time spending the money on the item. Today at the Denver Home & Garden Show I saw some special cabinet shelves that slid on tracks and allowed the owner to access the shelf-space on the corners that are often hard to reach. The problem was that the shelves were simply constructed out of plywood and tracks that are readily available at my local hardware store. I would need to make the shelves, but the cost of these shelves would be relatively low compared to the high cost of the pre-made units.
Would you make your own shelves, just deal with the hard to reach spaces, or buy the pre-made units?
Depends. Do you have the type/types of saws that you would need to complete the project? Or somewhere to borrow them from? Do you know how to use the saws so you don’t waste time and chop off a finger? Otherwise it’s going to cost you more time and money than buying the new ones would.
You mean like my garage climbing wall? Or may garage photo studio with “stick in a can” light stands and home made light adapters (so far a snoot and a ring flash, next a soft box)?
Yeah. I’m feelin’ ya.