Monday, January 18, 2010

Project #1 - The Garage

The past few weeks have found us working on projects in the garage to make it easier to move around, pull two vehicles in (and out), and create space to store things. This weekend, we finally finished some of the projects.

We began with shelving hanging from the ceiling to store seasonal items: camping equipment, Christmas decorations, lawn care items. This got a lot of stuff off the garage floor and out of our way.


Next project: a porch/landing/platform thing. The purpose for this was to move the freezer closer to the house and create a place for coats, backpacks, and snow boots and pants.


Inadvertently, we also created storage space underneath the platform that will be great for storing paint supplies and seasonal items (like those snow boots in July).

Randy even carpeted the stairs to help get the dirt/rocks/water off of shoes. It is a great little space.

Then, we got the garage door openers installed. This house is three years old and the openers were just sitting on the floor in the garage. We didn't realize they weren't on until we actually found them when we moved in. We are so excited to have them up. We got out and push the buttons just to feel the power.

We are glad that this huge project is finished and out of our hair. Randy really is because now he can park his truck in the garage, too. He will enjoy not having to scrape windows in the morning.

2 comments:

Amy said...

I LOVE the landing outside your door in your garage! Wish I had more space to do that! But LOVE taht everything stays outside! Way to be productive! Always feels good!

Natalie said...

And I thought we got a lot done this weekend. We are old and slow, I guess. Good job on all.