Home Improvement

Every now and then, Chad and I start thinking about new home improvement projects. Okay lets be honest, I start planning new projects and Chad gets sucked into them. (I guess that's just what happens when you have a husband who can build really cool stuff.) I told my husband I wanted him to build another set of drawers for our 4th bedroom, and his response was that he wanted to first build shelving for our garage. I thought that was a great idea and so I agreed to help him complete the project.

Before we could get started on the shelving we had to first paint the garage. We had so much stuff in the garage that we could only paint the half that we were building on. Having procrastinated my indoor painting projects (do to our prolonged company) I had paint on hand that we could use. We spent our Friday night painting and the next morning Chad went out to purchase supplies. Unfortunately, Saturday was crazy so we couldn't get started on the shelving until this week.

Wednesday was Chad's day off and so my goal was to get as much done as we could. We would get the wood cut out and then realize Chad had bought the wrong screws. Then we would get the base finished and realize we needed a different screw. After several trips back and forth to Lowes and Ace Hardware, we called it quits for the day. Chad was on call the next day, so I purchased the last of what we needed and was hoping to finish on Friday. After only spending about two hours Friday afternoon this is the end result.

I love that I can finally find and get into all of our storage buckets. In the past I would spend hours trying to hunt things down. Now everything is labeled and easy to access. I love organizing things.

Because I can never work on just one project at a time, and because Micheals was having a sale on their picture frames (65% off with coupon) I decided to finally finish decorating the wall above my TV in the front room. Thanks mom for taking such cute pictures of my family.