It all started with a party – getting ready for one to be exact. It is not lost on me that it always seems to take having people over before you decide to fix things up. Nonetheless, we had an open house party towards the end of last year and I took the opportunity to deal […]

It all started with a party – getting ready for one to be exact. It is not lost on me that it always seems to take having people over before you decide to fix things up. Nonetheless, we had an open house party towards the end of last year and I took the opportunity to deal with the fact that we were exploding at the seams with architectural building models. I’ll admit that as every flat surface in our office became the permanent residence for one model after another, I’d had enough and decided that we needed to do something about it.And the Metal Shelf of Awesomeness was born.Since the only real empty wall we had in our office was the one that I stared at every day, I decided this was the only best place for this shelf to reside. It started off pretty simple, I wanted a shelf with some contrast to the existing materials used in our office, that meant nothing white, and I couldn’t use maple (my business partner Michael Malone’s favorite wood). I also wanted this “shelf” to do something other than simply hold something. I settled on metal because, a) I love it, and b) I could also use magnets to help display and store the trace paper sketches I crea...