We conquered the garage

Our lowly single car garage became the storage place for everything we worked on this summer, from bags of mulch, grass seed and fertilizer to lumber, screening and trim pieces. Unfortunately, that meant that neither one of our cars fit into the garage at the same time. Now that we finished the first phase of the porch and the landscaping is sleeping until next spring it was clearly time to clean out the garage so we could use it for its true purpose! Earlier this fall I decided the walls needed a coat of primer as they were full of creepy stains and marks. It's amazing how much brighter it looks! We also realized we desperately needed more storage for all of the things we wanted to keep in our little garage. Joe and I spent a few hours on Sunday hanging shelves along our back wall, to complement the hanging storage system he put in a while ago. Now everything is up off the floor and we can actually walk around a car in the garage, without having to wiggle our way around everything! It's not nearly as exciting for everyone else, and certainly not something most people would even realize we had worked on, but it's one more space that's finished!