Another Project

I have been wanting Michael to organize and paint our garage for a while now. He painted my Mom and Dad's garage after they moved into their new place and it just brightened it up and made it not such a creepy crawly space. Ours is definitely a creepy crawly space. Plus the organization that we have going on in there really isn't working the way it should. So the plan is to paint the walls and the garage doors...see the black....so dark! Then Michael is going to build shelves that actually hold storage containers and then we get to organize it all.

This is the part of the garage that is connected to the house. The door on the right goes into the house. The area by the garage door is where I'm going to put a new cabinet that I got at the Mill Creek garage sales. We are going to stash the gas can, fertilizers and poisons in there so the kids won't be able to get into it.

That wood cabinet came with the house. It's nice to have closed storage, but it needs to be organized and used better than it is right now.

There normally is a wall of storage containers up against the back of the garage wall, but they are all residing in our dining room right now. Along with all the baby stuff we weren't using. I wanted to bring it all inside so it wouldn't get dirty during this process. See the beige cabinet? That's the one I got at the Mill Creek garage sales. It was still in the box and I got it for $10. It had a price tag on it from Linen's N Things for $69.99! I love getting a deal!


This is awful...what a mess. This is the painting, tool and camping storage section of the garage. Once this whole process is done this entire wall is going to be 2 X 4 shelves and it's going to be ORGANIZED! I love that word! :)

This is after a couple hours of Michael working. He had moved everything into the center of the garage and was removing all the shelves. The downside to this whole process is my van will be parked outside for a couple weeks.

There are two other reasons we are doing this project. I really want to have a nice, clean, fun place for the boys to play other than the house during the yucky rainy months. It's so nice to have a change of scenery for them and since we can't park Michael's work truck in the garage we have one whole side to use for the boys to play with their outside toys. Also we need to move a bunch of stuff that's in our current spare bedroom out to the garage since it's going to now be Ella's room. Stay tuned for updates! :)