Putting up the Cabinets

Last night, Big E and I worked on the garage some more.

We adjusted the plans a little bit and made some room for gardening tool.

The empty space next to the cabinet below will eventually

have some shelves for me to store pots and trowels and what not.

A big thank you to our neighbor's son 

who came over and helped with the largest cabinet

(the one on the far left below).

I wouldn't have been able to hold it in place myself.

I'm anxious to get the tools moved out here from the laundry room

so I can get that finished.

So much to do, so little time.

The Garage

First, I apologize for the not so great photos,

but the garage is not well lit and it was dark.

Last night, Big E and I began working on organizing the garage.

Right now, it's a hodge podge of cabinets, replacement windows, scrap metal,

paneling from the house and various pieces of wood slated to go to the burn pile.

No room for my car,

or anything else for that matter.

Plus, I'm anxoius to get my laundry room cleaned up, 

and Big E's tools need a place to go live other than my laundry storage cabinet.

So, it was time to try to get things picked up.

Once again, we've managed to save and reuse items.

For his work shop area, 

Big E salvaged the cabinets from the former upstairs kitchen.

I'm quite pleased with how much we've been able to reuse so far.  

It saves money and it keeps the stuff out of the landfill-

win for everyone.

Anyway, we got the biggest (and heaviest) into position, got ready to screw it into place

and the drill battery died.

While annoying at first, 

it gave us a moment to rethink placement of cabinets and discuss where my gardening stuff is going.

So tonight we will move everything around and get the cabinets up 

and the tools out of my laundry room.

I'm hoping I get to claim some space for gardening items.

I might just have to forgo space for my car.

Weekend in the Office

This is our back room in the downstairs.

From day one, we planned to make this 

and office/den/guest room/playroom.

Sounds crazy.

My idea was to remove the closet doors, add a shelf

and make a built in desk top to create his and hers desk areas.

I've been dying to have a space to scrapbook again, 

and this should provide the storage I need to have all those supplies at hand.

And with some portable folding tables, 

I have the room to have some fellow scrapbookers come over and scrap together.

I'm anxious to get the office up and running.

It drives me nuts to not have an area to keep paperwork organized.

So, using the 2x4's from the former upstairs dividing wall, 

the boards from the upstairs kitchen pantry and the closet doors,

we'll be able to get both desk areas completed for little to no cost!

This, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how to keep stuff out of the landfill, 

figure out a good use for it if you can't recycle!

I can not even begin to express how excited I am about this space.

It's been about 2-3 years since I've been able to scrapbook.

And I like to be organized.

As far as changing the room itself, 

the husband and I have opted to leave the paneling as is for now.

The carpet isn't the greatest, but it's doable.

Plus the walls will be covered with our "collections":

the husband has a ton of Elvis photos and such, and I have a ton of ghost/paranormal items.

It'll be a hodge podge, but it's a good place for us to display our stuff

(and really, Elvis and the paranormal are more closely related than one might think- with him not quite dead and all)

And in other news, 

the replacement windows arrived.

I can't wait to get these in!

Right now they're taking up my parking space in the garage, 

so our other chore to finish is to get the cabinets up in the garage.

The husband saved the cabinets from the old upstairs kitchen to use to make himself a workshop.

Once the shelves are up, 

we can get things moved around so I can get back in the garage

(especially because we're expecting more ice and snow next week).

Hopefully everything will run smoothly, 

and next week I'll have some "after" photos.

Keep your fingers crossed!