Hello!
Wanted to pop in today to share another project that’s been in the mix.
You’d think in a building like ours, we’d never run out storage space. Not the case, it seems. We’re always prowling for more racks to hold pottery while in its various stages of production. From fresh assembled to glazed and finished.
In the last several months we’ve especially been craving a more organized approach to hold all the pottery pieces posted on the website. We’ve had a rather archaic system in place the last few months. A few pieces here, a few pieces there. Numbers sharpied on blue painters tape stuck on various pieces and boards here and there, trying to find a system that works for us.
We’ve found ourselves pivoting systems too. Pieces at the gallery downtown (question: is is easier to pick and ship from there? Answer: it is not), boards on a rack in our office room, and even a few boards that made their way onto the tables and floors in the main gallery space as people placed orders for porch shopping/pick up.
You’d think it would be easy to adopt a system but it’s been a bit of a puzzle. But, drumroll….! We think we finally landed on something that’ll work.
A new storage rack dedicated solely for the website pottery.
We started cleaning and clearing out the area, found a few treasures some animals had left behind and got to work.
Keno ordered some lumber (ouch, lumber prices right now!) and got to work last week constructing a storage rack. It’s behind the chimney area in a little cubby over by the kiln. It’s out of the way and it’ll be easy to keep the web pieces separate from the other pieces. We’re pretty stocked about it.
Behold! The photos:
Like with any good project, another project got thrown into the mix at the same time too. With the new rack in place, we had to find a different location to stack the kiln door where it wouldn’t be in the middle of the new walkway.
When we fire, the way our kiln is set up, we manually stack on the door brick by brick before firing and take it down brick by brick when we unload it.
In the photo below (in the background on the left) you can see the kiln door as it used to look while not in use. The bottom of the door is on top. That way, when it’s inverted like that, when we stack the door on the bricks we need are in the correct location as we move it back and forth.
We decided to build a little table next to the kiln to stack the door bricks on while not in use. So instead of now always seeing the door inverted on the floor in one tall row, it’ll now rest on the table in two (shorter by half) rows.
Below, Keeno levels off the new table. You can see in the photo, the door bricks are currently resting on the work table in three rows.
And lastly, in the bottom photo, you can see the finished table with the door bricks (and kiln notes and orange leather work gloves) stacked on top.
Definitely easier on the back and it’ll be out of the way when we walk to the new storage rack. A win win!
Hope you enjoyed this mini storage rack and work-table building adventure.
Ps: Anyone need a few egg cartons? We have way more than my hens could almost ever fill. Haha
Until next time,
Claire