Building the war room of my dreams

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Racking it with our Robot overlords

October 11, 2025

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While I have added plenty of storage options to the room I had no clue how to use the available space. Paint storage was another thing that I wanted to solve.

@gorram had posted a topic asking for ideas and examples used by other CoGs within the community, which did help a bit.

Show me your racks

However as I made a quick inventory of the paints I had collected I realised I needed something a bit more structured.

And so I decided to ask Gemini for inspiration. As we were discussing the layout of the room the topic turned to storage solutions. Initially it suggested a couple of spice racks from that well known Scandawegian store, but when I told it how many paints I had in my inventory it had a cool suggestion for maximizing wall storage space : French Cleats.

Here is a video that shows the concept (and a lot of wood working)

A few hours later ...

This is the ‘app’ that Gemini and I created.

The Ultimate Paint Rack Designer(tm?)

I’ve designed it to have all the info on building the racks and calculating the materials required.

Note : I have not checked all the results, so things may not be correct.

It should serve as a guideline for building your own rack.

The default numbers were guessed by Gemini. For some reason it keeps defaulting to these values despite me stating it should use the actual values for these ranges.

And knowing my speed … you will probably get it finished before me 😉
There’s still a few ideas I have to discuss with the robot overlords.

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