The Best Laundry Room Storage Solution
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I make a Rag ‘n’ Bag organizer wall unit that’s perfect for storage in your laundry room, mud room, kitchen, or even workshop!
This project is totally beginner friendly since it’s constructed with just glue and screws.
This project was a little bit impulsive on my part since I have many other, more important shop projects to tackle. However, I had these bags and rags lying around and I was also looking for somewhere to hang up my apron, etc.
Since this project wasn’t entirely in my schedule, I wanted to get through it quick and move on. This is why I chose to use sheet goods (MDF) and just glue and screw it together. It doesn’t need to be bomb proof. If I want to make another, more sturdy version with traditional joinery, I know a woodworker who can make that happen.
I like the idea of building functional furniture with more than one, but somewhat separate functions. For instance, my clamp rack doubles as a shelf for just my stereo, and this was entirely intentional. The fact that I have rags, bags and hooks for hanging sweaters and aprons appeals to me for some reason, I’m not sure why.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Dimensioning
0:54 - Construction
4:41 - Painting Inside
5:31 - Assembly
6:43 - Painting Outside
7:02 - Hardware and Hanging
8:12 - Finale
US & CANADIAN AFFILIATE LINKS:
DOWELMAX:
DOWELMAX 3/8" Kit:
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DOWELMAX 1/2" Expansion:
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BLADES:
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TOOLS:
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BITS:
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Countersink Zero Flute: geni.us/fVIhcp
Self-Centering Bits: geni.us/RXZv9K3
3/32" Round Over Bit: geni.us/b8sGMT
SUPPLIES
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CA Accelerator: geni.us/bq0Az2
Silicone Glue Brush: geni.us/tiJw
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Sometimes you take your time and whip out the traditional joinery, other times you just glue it and screw it! What joinery would you have used to make this? Leave me a comment below of what you think!
Glue and screw was perfect for this. As was the paint! I do a bit of woodwork myself including turning. A lot of the members of the wood turning club are older gents and most of them didn't like paint on a project. I think whatever makes you happy is the right approach.
My wife always buys stuff and then comes home and says, "make me this." Thank goodness most of those projects are glue and screw.
I would have used traditional joinery. The piece looks great tho. I might try and make a version of it myself.
That tape trick for pouring paint is genius.
it only works when the tape actually sticks to the can
Oh Scott... you're my hero. 🤪😂😎 Nice job bro.
You and Under Dunn are my woodworking heroes.
Robert is amazing! I feel very privileged to be placed with him!
I really feel like your style is super unique to youtube woodworkers. I love the pace & joking style.
Thanks for the tip on Latex Extender. I haven't seen or used that product before, but I will be in the future.
Another enjoyable video and terrific build.
I'm new to the channel and love the videos. Glad you're a fellow Canadian to also inspire new Canadian wood workers.
Thanks so much! I'm glad I can add to the Canadian woodworking content on KZhead!
Neat build but my absolute favourite takeaway, one I will be putting into use immediately and for the rest of my life, is the tape over the paint can 🤯
the grumpy tired wood worker.. it is a new trend? ha ha looks great.
Haha, I'd like to think I'm not alone in that! Thanks for watching!
This is wonderful! I keep my rags under my bench in a milk create... I will be building something similar now! I really like the design of yours.
Thanks so much! Previously I was just kicking around a bag full of rags around until I finally gave in and made this! Thanks for watching!
Paint looks so pretty!
I see Michaels sponsored you...that bag. Love watching these videos Scott!
HAH! I'm not _that_ big-time yet! Thanks for watching Luis!
Great video once more, Scott. Super satisfying to watch. You make designing + woodworking + filming look easy. This clever design would make a worthy replacement for my disintegrating cardboard box full of rags. Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words Pete! It really means a lot!
Yup, disintegrating cardboard box(es) seems to be my toolbox of choice. Time to start building.
Beautiful. Love it. I made pine tubes for mine that are four feet long just to handle a large volume of bags I’ll never use. Yours sure looks a lot better. The flat lower opening is amazing too. This is the kind of thing I’d buy plans for to actually build.
Thanks! I probably have enough bags to fill your 4' tubes, but I gotta draw the line somewhere 😀. I'm considering making plans eventually. I have sketchup drawings for everything I make, but I've never actually seen woodworking plans before. It could be a lot of work but I'm willing to go down that road someday.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I was planning on messaging you on Instagram to see if I could buy your sketchup in any form it’s in. I just need total dimensions and maybe some hints for the other dimensions. No need for materials list or anything. Probably most importantly something to get the outline of the side panels. I’m also keen to see how your clamp rack was put together.
@@FearsomeWarrior Sounds like I need a webpage sooner rather than later, haha. I'll message you on insta. I don't think I have a drawing for the clamp rack, I made that one up as I went. I'll have to draw it up in the future.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I have a feeling you just started another niche in your KZhead channel!
Crazy. I also just used some bondo on a project. I thought it was crazy at first but worked great.
It always feels like a sacrilegious act when wood is painted over as an immediate gut reaction (not MDF though lol), but when we were still looking for a house to buy, I saw a few houses that embraced the whole wood grain everywhere -idea and man did it look like an old cottage. You really have to pick and choose where wood grain actually looks good even if in isolation it seems like a good choice. Some may like the color red over all the others, but you still probably don't want to paint your walls with it...
Nice one! Looking forward to the other storage solution videos 🙌
Thanks for watching! I have many more shop videos and storage videos coming down the pipeline! Cheers!
Your videos are amazing and I feel like we'd be amazing friends in real life. please keep up the good work
Nice job Scott! I like the design a lot. Subscribed.
Thanks so much for watching!
nice shop and power tool their..good work for that cabinet..i love woodworking too.
Thanks for watching!
Great video. The editing was as fantastic as the content. Thank you.
The speed tenon method is sometimes called “the Polish plane” (as in from Poland 🇵🇱).
Super impressive work man - lots of great tips here!
Thanks for taking the time to check out my channel Jon! Cheers!
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I'll be checking out more, great content. I've been lazy today, so I've been making the KZhead rounds.
Hey, I'm good at hand sawing MDF, too! You don't see many woodworkers talk about it much anymore. It's a lost art.
I hear it's making a big comeback though
Great video Scott. Have recently subscribed and and binging your back catalogue. Here's a tip for your pouring problems with that big paint thinner bottle. I used to have the same issue with screenwash deicer that comes in similar bottles. Flip the bottle 180 degree and pour out of the side closest the the handle. Sounds weird but doesn't glug out as chaotically and pours easier! :)
Another nice video Scott. I expect great things from this channel in the future.
Thanks for watching again Frank! I hope I can live up to those expectations 😅
Well done to all of the Scotts featured in this video! I am digging your style man. Keep it up! (subbed)
Thanks so much for encouragement and the sub! More content to come!
The tape over the paint can is brilliant , simple things are the best , not sure about the rawls though , togles would hold better , great edit and nice color on the over built rag box
new subscriber here! nice build man 😊
Cool idea.
Your channel is going to blow up at some point in the future if you stick with this. Impressive stuff.
Nice!
Try a Mohawk epoxy stick instead of bondo, much faster and easier. Looks good!
Great video! your videos are getting better and better. one last comment. The colour you choose/had leftover looks like it is from the '50s...
Yeah I bought that can of paint back in the 50s when I was young man.
Thanks for great content. You’re funny man!
Cheers man! Thanks so much! I really appreciate it!
The sweater hang though
Nailed it! The sweater hang at the ending took like ten tries 😂
Well done!! Really enjoying your content. What camera/lens combo are you using?
@ 5:53 I noticed you also do the crabby hands when trying to remember what is is you were gonna do next.
Thanks for the video, Scott. I'm consuming your videos, and am nearing the end of the feast (dun dun DUUUH). And I'm now rewatching the ones youtube said I didn't watch yet, but actually have. Production quality is pretty darn good. Mind me asking what you're using to shoot and edit content?
Nice looking job. I think the paint is a relaxing almost neutral tone, so much so I would like to ask you what brand and colour please.
The rag storage, though not entirely necessary must be nice, since you can probably find a shop rag without searching. 😸
And once your significant other sees this handy box, well, you should have built at least three more while you are building the first one because you are going to build another one anyway. And since you are building two or three for your house, might as well build a dozen more so time painting these things will be justified and you got several great something-or-anothers you can sell.
Great video, Scott. The project turned out really well and I thought the production quality looks awesome. What's the box joint blade you're referring to?
Thanks for watching! It's the Oshlun 8" Box Joint Blade. If you don't work with plywood often like me, a box joint blade _could_ be more useful than a dado stack.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking Awesome, thanks! I'm actually considering moving from my delta hybrid saw to a dewalt contractor/portable one, which I don't think can accept dado anyways. So this seems like it could make a great alternative. I also really like that side profile you used and might try to replicate something close.
I love that color you chose! Do you have the paint code and brand?
Fantastic music, filming, editing, & build! Love it. What are you shooting with and what lights are you using? I need to stop being lazy about my lighting between shots.
Thanks for checking out my video Suman! I feel like I could write an essay about this, hah! I'm using a Panasonic G85 with a 12-40mm f/2.8 lens and 95% of the time set at 40mm because I like the look of longer focal lengths. When I moved in my shop last year, I almost just went with some LED shop fixtures, but I decided to get some LED video lighting panels (Neewer 480). I went with these for the high colour rendering index. I have four permanently mounted in the four corners of the shop. Since my shop is so small, I don't need as much lighting, but I might get a few more panels in the future. I'm not a fan of 'flooding' the space with light, but rather directional task lighting pointed at specific work areas because this can create interesting contrast. I've noticed the care that you take in filming your videos too, it definitely shows! I can talk about this stuff for years, let me know if you have any more questions!
@@ScottWalshWoodworking That's awesome! Thanks for the details. I am honestly surprised by the image quality of the G85, especially given the amount of bokeh for a four thirds sensor. That's awesome! Are you shooting and editing in 4k? For me, the amount of data it takes to shoot/edit in 4k is just nuts. Its about 120GB ish per video. Eventually I'll have to dump my raw files because it is not sustainable to house them without $3-4k in NAS. Great call on the Neewer lights! I think I need to get a few panels and have them all on a smart switch via app so that I can turn everything on at once. Currently I am doing a mixture of shop lights that are only 85CRI and then overpowering it with godox SL150 with softboxes. it works OKAY. I want an even easier "turn on and forget about it" solution because I'm sure you've experienced this: woodworking + filming is hard enough. Adding a third complication of dynamic lighting can be a pain.
Yeah, I get the nice depth of field/bokeh when I stay at those longer focal lengths. I'd get a long prime lens but the flexibility of the zoom is hard to beat, and this lens was expensive enough, hah! I almost went with a GH5 but I couldn't really justify the cost since I sometimes cover the camera with sawdust, soo.... I only tried shooting in 4K once, for my blast gate video I believe. My laptop, is powerful, but it's not a purpose-built editing rig, so it was a bit harrowing to render, etc. My first cheque from KZhead, I'll put towards a solid editing rig... that could take a while 😂. My raw footage can exceed 100gb when shooting in 1080, so 4K will have to wait for now. I totally resonate with the "turn on and forget it" solution. I don't want to be slinging lighting stands around my already cramped shop. My next video will be automating my dust collection with an arduino. Theoretically, it would be possible to control the lights from the arduino as well, based on what tool is turned on at the moment of filming. Not sure if it'll be worth the time to figure that out, but it sure would be cool!
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I have zero skills with audrino. I would love to see your build. I’m probably going to put smart plugs like the Philips and turn the lights on/off via the app. Govee also makes cheaper options. Oh man- you’re shootings a lot if you’re hitting 100gb on 1080p. I’m very conscious about only shooting what I need Bc every extra minute is data burn that I don’t want to deal with. Haha.
I think that sounds like a great plan! Simple and effective. Yeah I have many ideas for shots and even segments that get cut or completely removed in the edit for conciseness. I like to think I'm conscious of not letting the camera roll on forever while working, but it always ends up being a lot. I've been contemplating just deleting raw footage after I'm done with a project. Haven't had the courage to do that yet though. Do you keep everything?
If it really took you that long to paint you should seriously consider getting a Graco handheld sprayer works great for a little projects like that.
i have a conventional gun, but no where to use it when it's winter.
I've watched a lot of woodworking videos and this is the first time I've seen anyone use MDF.
Love the video! Do you have plans available for this piece?
Thanks Nate! I'm actually working on plans for a couple of upcoming projects, and after that I'll try and go back and make plans for older work, such as this! Stay tuned!
@@ScottWalshWoodworking That would be great! Keep up the good work - I'm finding the channel very helpful!
Hmmm I think my joinery would be popsicle sticks and tape? I don't think that would turn out as nicely as yours though!
I'd like to see that happen
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I'll see what I can do
does the routing direction (clockwise vs counter) matter? I see you do both here.
What are you using to sand on? It looked like some sort of carpet or fabric.
I have an old door mat that I sand on. It keeps the work piece stable from vibrations and prevents any scratches that the bench could impart on it.
Where did you find those hinges? I hit up my Rona, Home Depot, Home Hardware and all I can find are zinc coloured and brass! Lol
I'm pretty sure I got them off amazon, they were pretty cheaply made, do not recommend. I do love using Brusso hardware when possible
is mdf decent for a moisture area like a laundry?
My laundry room isn't particularly humid, and painted MDF is perfectly sealed from moisture anyways. But this can be made out of whatever material you want.
@@ScottWalshWoodworking I was actually asking as I have no idea if I should use it haha
what table saw is he using
Where to buy a countersink like that?
link is in the description!
Liked the project and the video, but the title seems... off
Honest I'm just upset by "lying Scott." I feel deceived. I think I prefer "tired Scott." Also it looks as though two people liked your video so much that they accidentally pressed the dislike when they probably thought it was a 1.5 value like considering the 180degree rotation.
Tired Scott would like to apologize on behalf of Lying Scott since Lying Scott does not apologize to anybody.
All that work for a rag & plastic bag dispenser!
it seems like you don't enjoy woodworking
Well no one wants to see the natural woodgrain of MDF so painting is go...
There's a time and place for a natural MDF finish... underneath a few coats of paint.
Interesting you are making something to hang your apron(among other things) but yet you don't wear one
Obligatory MDF dust is really bad for you. Wear protection!
"Quick" and "Power tools" is not a good couple.
Just don’t “cut any corners” while rounding them! 😉 I’ll see myself out now!