Under the stairs storage - Part I

Here are pics of another project - storage under a set of stairs. Sometimes, the backside of a staircase is open, and this area has alot of possabilities! In the first picture, you can see how I am furring out the walls, and lining them with painted 1/2" mdf. This particular stairway is old, and VERY out of square - in 36" it is 1-5/8" out of square! WOW!!! I've managed to hide it all behind the horizontal furring strip you can see in the picture. I will trim this out with more mdf, and it will end up looking perfectly normal!



The next two pictures show how wavy the old wall is. From the first view point, it doesn't look too bad. But in the second picture, you can see how I've had to scribe the mdf to the wave. This is accomplished by using a compass to trace the wall waves onto the mdf, and then cutting along the line (in this case with my circular saw). Once I apply a thin bead of caulk, the wave will literally disappear!