Remodeling of Sunday School Store / Resource Cabinets

The store in its final form

On Saturday we spent the bulk of the day making changes to our Sunday School store and to our resource cabinets.

Our store was nice but we needed a bit more room and a way to display the wares more visibly and to make them more accessible.

To this end we installed four, 6 foot long shelves which were angled at approximately 40 degrees with a lip on the edges to keep the bins from falling off.  Additionally we installed a shelf above that for the larger items and a pegboard above that.

It turned out quite nice and after some other juggling of items (stacking of existing shelves, mounting of brackets for signs etc) the room is now much more utilitarian than previously.

The resource cabinets were quite a bit of work.  They had been used by many people for several years and had deteriorated into a miasma of detritus.  Papers, toys, instruments, crayons, puppets, hats, masks and candy were strewn asunder with a liberal coating of ants as the coup de grâce.

My poor wife labored unceasingly, spraying bugs, vacuuming, wiping, sorting and finally restoring all of the items in a much more rational system.

A lot of work indeed but the end result (assuming it stays this way long-term) was worth the effort.

The reorganized cabinets