Insulating/storage idea
Oct. 24th, 2007 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenThe little room where my floor loom, table loom, sewing machine, etc. are all in, is north facing. It actually gets a reasonable amount of light, if indirectly, but still it will be one of the cooler rooms in the winter so I've been working on how to insulate the wall. There are two windows, over which will be insulated shades or curtains (depending on what time allows). The spaces left over are somewhat narrow or short.
The space between the windows is just wide enough for some wire rack shelving, and a brass coat rack. The two long narrow spaces will have peg board attached so that I can put hooks on it, and the short wide space now has two more wire rack shelves attached. I'll be putting yarn and rovings in the shelves and hanging chained rovings off the hooks. This should give me 4-5" more insulation, plus all the fibers are accessible/visible.
I'm also hoping to make a padded 'bumper' that will run the length of the wall, over the windows.
Now of course if one has wider wall spaces, a backless bookcase would be just the thing. Or, run tracks up the wall and attach shelving to it, or angle brackets and boards, or bricks and boards.... this could even be done on walls that have electric-heating baseboards, as long as the bottom shelf is at least a foot up from the heating element and doesn't cover it up (fire hazard).
If you're not a spinner/weaver/knitter, but have fabric for sewing, there's always fabric to use as the insulator.
Or if you're not a fiber-oriented crafter at all, in the bedroom the wider shelves can be used for pants, shirts, and sweaters, and the narrower shelves/wire racks can be used for socks, hats, mittens, scarves, etc. In a room that's used more for storage, off-season clothing could go on the shelves. In a living or dining room, I could still see doing something like this on whichever are the outside/cold walls, and then hanging a curtain over it so it doesn't add visual clutter to the room.
I came up with a similar idea for a friend of mine who was complaining some years ago that her clothes wouldn't fit in the closet. Office jobs seem to lend themselves to having to have a lot of clothing... anyway, I suggested that since her clothing was pretty well color-coordinated, she ought to put up a netted chain on the wall, or maybe a series of hooks, and hang all her clothing on the outer wall as both insulation and decoration. As long as she left one thickness against the wall, she would be able to maintain the 'seal' for the most part -- especially if the clothing overlapped a bit on the sides. Maybe a layer of off-season clothing first, to guarantee no bare wall. She laughed at the idea, and I guess it was pretty silly (but it would have worked!).
Anyway, the keys are open-backed storage systems for contact with the wall, and soft stuff that insulates/traps air.
I like it when I can get a two-fer from a project :)
The space between the windows is just wide enough for some wire rack shelving, and a brass coat rack. The two long narrow spaces will have peg board attached so that I can put hooks on it, and the short wide space now has two more wire rack shelves attached. I'll be putting yarn and rovings in the shelves and hanging chained rovings off the hooks. This should give me 4-5" more insulation, plus all the fibers are accessible/visible.
I'm also hoping to make a padded 'bumper' that will run the length of the wall, over the windows.
Now of course if one has wider wall spaces, a backless bookcase would be just the thing. Or, run tracks up the wall and attach shelving to it, or angle brackets and boards, or bricks and boards.... this could even be done on walls that have electric-heating baseboards, as long as the bottom shelf is at least a foot up from the heating element and doesn't cover it up (fire hazard).
If you're not a spinner/weaver/knitter, but have fabric for sewing, there's always fabric to use as the insulator.
Or if you're not a fiber-oriented crafter at all, in the bedroom the wider shelves can be used for pants, shirts, and sweaters, and the narrower shelves/wire racks can be used for socks, hats, mittens, scarves, etc. In a room that's used more for storage, off-season clothing could go on the shelves. In a living or dining room, I could still see doing something like this on whichever are the outside/cold walls, and then hanging a curtain over it so it doesn't add visual clutter to the room.
I came up with a similar idea for a friend of mine who was complaining some years ago that her clothes wouldn't fit in the closet. Office jobs seem to lend themselves to having to have a lot of clothing... anyway, I suggested that since her clothing was pretty well color-coordinated, she ought to put up a netted chain on the wall, or maybe a series of hooks, and hang all her clothing on the outer wall as both insulation and decoration. As long as she left one thickness against the wall, she would be able to maintain the 'seal' for the most part -- especially if the clothing overlapped a bit on the sides. Maybe a layer of off-season clothing first, to guarantee no bare wall. She laughed at the idea, and I guess it was pretty silly (but it would have worked!).
Anyway, the keys are open-backed storage systems for contact with the wall, and soft stuff that insulates/traps air.
I like it when I can get a two-fer from a project :)
