Garage Makeover

Recently, my sister and I got my bedroom in order.  Finally, a year after moving in, there are no boxes in my bedroom.  The only thing left is to a get a picture or two on the wall. 

Friday, when I was pumping up the tires on my 4Runner (which, by the way, took a very long time because they were really low), I found more wolf spiders than I really wanted to find.  I already knew I had a spider problem in the garage (and an organizational problem!), but I was just ignoring it.  Well, after this discovery I decided that the garage would be my weekend project.

I started out with a late night trip to Lowe's on Friday in order to get some shelving, a dehumidifier and some 18 gallon Rubbermaids.  I figured if I was going to do the project, I might as well do it right.  A couple weeks ago I had finally found the shelf that I wanted so that helped expedite the process.

Well, really, I had started the project last weekend bye un-mounding the pile of boxes to figure out which were ours and which belonged to Josh (we are keeping his stuff while he is deployed).  I brought ours inside and have yet to do anything with them.

Okay, okay.  I'll get to the pictures soon.  Thanks to Aaron for reminding me to take pictures.  Also, I take back anything bad I ever said about the huge shop vac he bought from Nate when we were still living in apartments.

Just to give you some scale for the pictures, the garage was one of the major selling points of the house for us.  I have tons of stuff, two cars, a weight set, and I still have room to spare!  In all, the whole project took me about 12 hours.  Unfortunately, between the boxes I brought into the house when this whole thing started and the additional stuff I brought in during the clean up, the basement now desperately needs major organizing and unpacking.  It already needed it, but now all the more so... As if I needed another project, I accidentally stepped off the rafter when I was in the attic spraying for bugs.  Thankfully, the ceiling held, but now I have to paint the ceiling in the hall because the little nubbies on the ceiling came off.  Fortunately, my hallway is less than 20 square feet and bounded on all sides so I don't have to paint a ton of ceiling.  :)

Finally, you get to see the pictures.  I'm pretty proud of this.  I also really need a shower!


Here are some 'before' shots.

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From 20100912 - Garage Makeover

Here are the 'after' shots.  

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Note that none of the blue tubs have anything in them yet.  All the boxes along the side and most of the ones on top are Josh's.  I don't mind having them at all, but I'll gain even more space when that stuff goes.  Of course, the weight bench is his, so that will go too.  I will be sad.

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From 20100912 - Garage Makeover

This one shows that my lawnmower fits sideways between the cars with walking space too. :)

If you want to see more pictures than the ones included here, you'll have to go to my album. 

20100912 - Garage Makeover