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Originally Posted by Dantilla View Post
I installed upper cabinets, and between them screwed a 2x12 painted to match to use as a bookshelf. Screwed from inside the cabinets, just an inch or so above the bottom.

Upper cabinet, 30" 2x12, upper cabinet, another 30" 2x12, one more upper.

A 2x12 is plenty strong to hold all of my shop manuals (full set for 911, full set for 944, factory manuals for the non-Porsches, plus a few other things like Wayne's 101 projects, yada yada...) with no sagging after several years.

I didn't use cabinets for the lowers. Just a 3/4" plywood workbench, 4x4 posts, 2x6 perimeter, and one shelf half way up. I suppose some doors would look cleaner. Everything down below is in plain sight.

Sounds functional as hell...not that the Gladiator stuff in the above pic isn't gorgeous, but some of us can only afford function while skipping the beauty...
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