Week ending 3/10/12

On a Saturday, we spent another 3 hours on the garage and picked up the shelving material. We put the first shelf up, which took about an hour and a half. When I did the prior section of shelving, I found that it's best to start from the top and work down so you aren't trying to work underneath the shelves you just put in. There's a big learning curve here, so we expect the remaining 4 shelves to go up in about an hour and a half. I cannot wait to start putting things away!

On Sunday, C spent 3.5 hours putting up the remaining shelves up while I was out having fun. He's much more motivated than I am to get things done fast. I'm burned out on home renovation and can't sprint anymore. So now the shelves are up and yay, that means it's time to do some more work and put stuff away. I can't wait to see what a difference it makes.

Here is the result of all our hard work, before being loaded up with stuff we want to put away:


The plywood paneling makes such a difference! You can see in the back corner the area that isn't done. It's yucky studs and black tar paper. The front section is a section I did a while back with plywood and slatwall. It holds all of our recreation equipment. That pile of plywood in the back is the next target to get rid of once we put away some things on the shelves.

On Monday, we did a spontaneous 1.75 hour garage session. I went out just to set up my pantry shelves, and C wandered out and started working. We got a lot done, and this is what we were going to do tomorrow. I'm so excited to have my shelves set up so I can get to things like paper goods, cleaning supplies and bulk food purchases. YAY!

On Tuesday, we did a half an hour session on the garage since we worked yesterday. We worked on getting rid of excess construction materials, of which we have a huge amount! I swear every person that worked here left something. We cut up two unusable pieces of plywood into small pieces so they could go into the trash. Some of the plywood we'll try to give away, but this stuff was dirty and water damaged. I also got a piece of door threshold material offered up on Freecycle.

By Wednesday, I had 7 people that wanted to take the door threshold material already.  Freecycle is amazing!


On Thursday, the threshold was picked up.  Can't believe the stuff you can find a home for on Freecycle!


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