Thread: Upgrades to my workbench

A while back I made a "temporary" workbench from myself using an old pallet from the bin and two MDF cover sheets, it was big and heavy and useful but when I moved to this new house I had to make do with a much smaller space.

I saw an episode on the wood whisperer and another on the AWR showing storage drawers under their workbenches which got me thinking...

I checked out what i could get MDF for on ebay and found 1200 x 600 x 16 sheets at $1 a sheet and bought 40 of them then I found 450mm full extension 45kg Hettich runners for $20/set and normal 400mm roller runners for $30/set of 20. Bargains all round so i did some bidding then some sketchup then some shed time and the result:



4 x 100mm Drawers



1 x 400x700x500 drawer for big stuff



2 x 200 x 500 x 700 drawers for stuff that's just too big for a normal drawere but just too small to leave lying around





I still have to put fronts on most of them, i put a front on the big centre drawer and finished it with an ogee profile, then I need to put handles on and finally I will put another 3 x 150mm drawers in this space: