About eight or nine years ago we extended our house and moved the kitchen downstairs to give us an open plan L-shaped kitchen diner area (actually more of a Г shape) with a sitting and TV area in the bottom of the Г.
When the guys were taking out the old kitchen I got them to save a couple of the old kitchen units.
A year or so later we renovated our bathroom and when we replaced the shower, along with everything else, I saved a sheet of the tempered glass from the shower screen with a view to using it as a work surface.
And then the pandemic came along, and I never quite got around to making a workbench out of the saved materials.
Well today I put the bits together to make a new work bench in the studio
The frame the kitchen units sat on had disappeared so I made some load bearing bars out of discarded construction pine for the units to sit on, and added some extra pine at the back of the units to help take the weight of the glass.
The bench is not quite finished, it needs to move to a different location in the studio, at which point I'll use some industrial glue to glue the glass in place, and probably the glass should move back four or five centimetres to reduce the overhang at the front to improve access to the drawers.
So far everything is recycled and the cost is going to come out around $30 - $10 for the screws and another $20 for the industrial glue.
I'm now on the lookout for a decent second hand lab chair - basically one like those you see in dentist's surgeries that are height adjustable and have a bit of back support ...
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