Shelves for the Basement

I've have made some progress taming our basement with shelving. Here are some cantilevered shelves that I use to store tools over the work bench.

I also added 30" deep storage shelves on either side of our basement fire place. Here is a before/after of the basement.

         

Where did all the junk go? On to these big shelves, of course

Here is how they were made: 2"x3"s hung from the rafters define the frame and then two shelves with 2"x3" cross-bracing hold the plywood tops.

Finally, I installed shelves inside the fireplace to hold our house paint. Here is a before/after set of pictures. The shelves were recycled from old 2"xWides" that the carpenters used to install the windows.