Nirvana

Ever since we moved here, we'd always speak longingly of the day when we'd be able to stop using our garage as a gigantic storage room and actually park in there. Then, even after we moved stuff into our new shed, the garage was still chock full. So the time finally came last week to break down and get a storage unit a couple miles down the road.

As we started moving stuff, Mark wanted to put up some shelves, but first he wanted to paint. He'd brought home three cans of Oops paint from Home Depot, ($7 for a gallon) but all three were kind of questionable colors---what looked like a light green, baby blue, and dark green. Here's the first one he slapped on the wall that nearly caused me a heart attack:

I'm not sure if this picture does this justice. It was full-on 1990's sage green. BLECH!!!

 

We've already mixed our own paint for two other rooms in our house, so we decided to go for it for the garage. I think he used all three cans of Oops paint, plus the leftover Unreal Teal from the shed door, and some white mixed in. It was a little scary at first....
 

 

 

It was too dark at first, but eventually he came upon this lovely dark teal...

Which I LOVE! (This picture doesn't do it justice, either.) It's just like the blue in Luke's room, but darker. It's fab. And we saved ourselves about $70, so there.

Yes, we have mountains of stuff. Ten years of accumulation! (And a small, three bedroom house with nowhere to put anything..)

 

Then we hauled everything down from the attic.

Most of it's bins of clothes the kids have outgrown, which we've been hanging onto in case we have munchkin #3 someday. Holy Moses, they were taking up a lot of space!

 I kept stopping to pull things out and reminisce, like this silk gingham dress Madelyn wore when she was 1 1/2

Luke's newborn Halloween beanie and this crab hoodie

 

 and Madelyn's satin shoes and preemie diapers. Awwwwwww.

Anyway, all that got hauled out to the storage unit, and finally we started to have some empty space in the garage.

 

Mark put up some high shelves, and then we bought four modular shelving units from Wal-mart (and some more bins....)

NOW we're getting somewhere! This is my side. There's a lot of stuff (mostly crafty) that I need access to all the time, so it stayed.

♥♥♥ Aahhhhh. ♥♥♥  There's still random piles of stuff to get dropped off at the D.I., and Mark's starting to build something, but what a difference from before!

 Manly stuff...and the shelves by the door are mine to put bulky food storage and whatnot. So far it has 15 lbs. of  Blow Pops for Halloween.

 I've got an old dresser to go in that space, that will probably store fabric or something. I want to paint the dresser first, but I may have to do it myself because...

Mark has another epic project he's already started, one that has completely covered the once clean garage (hey, it lasted for a day or two) with a thick layer of sawdust.

And Battlefield 3 comes out tomorrow. 

............moment of silence............

It was nice having your time and attention for a while Mark! Hope you resurface soon!