Check out this Tool Library Member Project by Heidi!
“I have a lot of teacups. And teapots. They needed a storage space that fit how cool they were. So I knocked out some drywall, framed shelves, did way more drywalling then I thought possible, fished electric wire for the first time in my life, tiled, cut boards and routed and sanded them and then finished them.
Let me describe myself at the beginning of this year: we had some doors in our house that did not have handles on them. This status persisted for ten years because I did not think I was good at doing things myself, and people kept ghosting on us when we tried to hire someone to do it.
Finally in January, I fixed it, because I couldn’t really fix anything else going on in the world, but I could fix this. The experience was addictive, and I wanted to learn more. I found the Denver Tool Library.
I have taken so many classes. I learned so much from the woodworking fundamentals classes (I’ve taken all of them). Huge shout out to David Cooke, whose electricity, tiling, and drywall classes were incredibly useful for this project, even though he had to ban me and my partner from using the wet saw during tiling classes because we kept going back to add things.
Mostly, though, I want to thank every one of the instructors for helping me change my mindset from “I’m not the kind of person who does things” to “I can figure this out.”
I’ve discovered that I can do more than I thought.”
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