Hello friends and future self I am exhausted. My siblings and Will’s brother was in town for DanyCon this past week/weekend. (Mary Elizabeth was supposed to come too but she caught covid and though she felt better she wasn’t supposed to fly.) Now that everyone has left we’re just exhausted. I’ll have to fill everyone in on our 6th DanyCon later, but for now I’ll show you yet another garage organization project. This one was really simple.
We decided to bring our skis back from the condo so we might be able to try skiing at the mountain close to us if we get ski early next season. We needed somewhere to store all the gear though since our basement area is looking very different these days. I used some scrap wood to put together a ski and pole holder, and then hung some hooks above it for our helmet and boot bags.
Ski Rack
What you’ll need:
- 3 foot long piece of scrap wood (mine was about 4″ wide)
- 3/4″ diameter dowel
- wood glue
- Cut dowel into 8 7″ segments. (Note: 7″ segments were long enough to accomodate a pair of skis, and then hang poles from the ends.)
- Next mark out locations for the poles that will hold up your skis. There should be 2.25″ between each pole, on center. This will ensure there is enough space to hang your skis, but they will not slip through. Each set of ski holders should be 7.25″ away from the other (on center) to leave ample room for the ski bindings.
- After you have equally spaced and marked the locations for your dowels, drill each with at 3/4″ forstner bit about three quarters of the way into the long piece of scrap wood.
- Add glue to each hole you drilled, then place a dowel in the hole. Tap with a rubber mallet to get it into the hole if necessary.
- Glue all the dowels in, then place another piece of scrap wood on top of all the dowels and clamp tight so the glue holds. Let dry for 24 hours.
- Screw the whole assembly directly into the wall
