Yesterday I wrote about taking out a section of wall someone had put into the house before we bought this property. It divided the main part of the garage from the end that's used as wash area.
We liked what we had done, taking out a couple of feet of wall.
We mulled the project over for a day and came up with another plan yet. I checked up in the rafters to make sure the ceiling would not fall down. ( I found a couple of junk items and a few things to donate there as well.) Our handyman has a job to do here on Monday, we will ask him to secure one electric wire that we left dangling with the outlet attached.
Today we took out the last seven feet of wall and opened it all up.
The results are simply excellent, indeed!
Why, oh why had we never thought to do this before?
Many of the walls in the garage are already painted white, so that will make the completion of this project much simpler. We still have to move some shelves, restock them.
We have a pile of building debris, we were dusty, We are so happy with this job.
Showing posts with label Garage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garage. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2008
Friday, June 22, 2007
No Photos, Please!
What a big job cleaning out the garage can be.
We had many things in our garage that were of no use to us, the current house keepers, that is. Although we had begun to dispose of stuff, the tools needed to be sorted, and a system needed to be found to make them useful for their purpose. The over sized shelving was totally out of proportion and cumbersome to use. So we hauled everything out into our breeze way, and sorted.
I especially enjoyed taking the "Saws All" saw to the shelves and destroying them. One IKEA storage shelf came home. One tool storage/drawer unit holds all the tools. Boy, is that handy!
So, today we have a load to take to the transfer station of our local dump. Electronics are going, metal file cabinet. None of those pieces will incur a dump charge. I love recycling!
There is now space to dance in that garage. Some day, maybe, I can park a car in there. I can dream, can't I?
To top it off, yesterday we cleaned out the freezer, moved it and now the whole utility/washroom is very useful. Why did it take us so long to come up with that plan and follow through?
It was so therapeutic to get all that done.
We had many things in our garage that were of no use to us, the current house keepers, that is. Although we had begun to dispose of stuff, the tools needed to be sorted, and a system needed to be found to make them useful for their purpose. The over sized shelving was totally out of proportion and cumbersome to use. So we hauled everything out into our breeze way, and sorted.
I especially enjoyed taking the "Saws All" saw to the shelves and destroying them. One IKEA storage shelf came home. One tool storage/drawer unit holds all the tools. Boy, is that handy!
So, today we have a load to take to the transfer station of our local dump. Electronics are going, metal file cabinet. None of those pieces will incur a dump charge. I love recycling!
There is now space to dance in that garage. Some day, maybe, I can park a car in there. I can dream, can't I?
To top it off, yesterday we cleaned out the freezer, moved it and now the whole utility/washroom is very useful. Why did it take us so long to come up with that plan and follow through?
It was so therapeutic to get all that done.
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