Amaze me August #33 ~ Garage remodel PART 2 ~

WELCOME, to the 33rd edition of 

I am so happy you are here. I can't wait to see what you have been up to. This is the last link up before Easter. Can't wait to see what everyone has been up to. 


Now on to my Garage Remodel PART 2


I am so excited to start finally showing you what I spent most of Spring Break working on. It's taken years to do this, and although it did take longer than I thought, I am so happy we finally got it done. The hardest part anyway. There is still tons of final touches, labeling, organizing, but for the most part, the change is dramatic, and I hope you enjoy the transformation as much as I do. 

My kids were all eager to help, sweet hugh. Yes this little patch of wall kept Dino busy for a while, lol.

Even my cat Tiger wanted to help. Not really he was just trying to sneak in the house every chance he got. Poor cat, he ALWAYS tries to sneak in, and run under the beds. I guess he remembers the good old days when he was an indoor kitten. Then mean mommy let him out, because I hate the smell of kitty litter, ooops.

Feel free to click on this picture and make it larger, so you can see just how nasty and dirty this doorway is. Bye bye, no more white paint for me. Heck no. 

My princess doing a much better job staying between the lines. Or under the stripe shall I say. It was fun for her, and she did a pretty good job too.

Ahh, there's Big B, he was my shelf installer. He had 5 heavy duty shelves to install and put together, and after the first one he was a pro, didn't even need any more help.

Clearly the staying between the lines only lasted so long. I HAD to resort to taping to get semi clean lines. I really wanted to paint horizontal stripes in here, simply to make your eye go around the garage making it look even larger than it is. I am so loving the blue shades I picked out. I'm happy being in my garage now. Princess had fun removing the tape after it dried.

Looks pretty good right. You'd never know how nasty it was before.

So check out that new door. Well newly painted anyway. I decided to go with black chalkboard paint on the garage door, both inside and out, and also painted the water heater doors too.

Those would be the water heater doors to the left.

Oh you want to see my garage floor, OK, why not. At least its clear right. Half of it anyway. We had rain in between, so while I cleared EVERYTHING out on my driveway, I had to bring it back in at night. It was so frustrating.

How about another BEFORE!! Yikes!!

Oh wow, AFTER!!!

And there you have it folks. Big B giving his thumbs up, a sure sign of approval if I do say so myself. Truth be told, Big B also did most of the painting. I taped, and he painted. I did most of the trim, and he did the rest. So he was extra proud of the garage, and how it looked since he did so much of the work. 


The power of paint I tell you. As if you needed yet another example of that, we see so many transformations, but it's so true. Nothing can compare to a new coat of paint. 


All I did was remove the cabinets from the walls, and take everything out. I taped off the walls, so I could have some horizontal stripes, and painted accordingly. Painted several coats of chalkboard paint on the doors, and painted all the trim the darker blue. I think not bad for PART 2 of the remodel. 


Please let me know what you think so far. Do you like it?
Have you painted your garage, or do you think it's silly wasting your time, and money painting a garage?


Can you guess what Part 3 might be?


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Organizing my Garage PART 1

I've been asked to guest post over at a couple blogs lately. 
Today I am lucky enough to be over at one of my favorite blogs.


Hope you can stop by to say hello. 


I'm over @ LUXE BOULEVARD helping my sweet friend Stephanie out while they move. 


Now would you like to see Part 1 of my new garage?


I'm sure if you push through my archives, you will see several pictures of my garage. My hate for this ugly space, I can't even begin to tell you. The place was just a magnet for dirt, junk, dust, spiders, and everything else you can imagine. I HATED going in there, and hated for anyone to see my garage. 


Not only that, but it REALLY made keeping the rest of the house clean, very difficult. All the dirt would come in from the garage, and nothing had a proper place for storage resulting in everything being thrown all over the place. 


While I still need to completely organize my garage, I'd like to start showing you what I've done so far. 


This was what we worked on for most of spring break. 
Totally rad right?

Ok, I know this is just the before pictures, but I am curious to see what you all think I did in there, and to make it even more fun, I'd love to hear what YOU WOULD do to make it look better, and be more useable, and kid friendly.


Tell me what you think, and come back to see Part 2 within the next few days!!


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Part one, Cleaner garage

My mission was semi-accomplished today. 
If you missed the first post, you can read all about my messy garage, complete with all the pictures. Also in case you wanted to know how I made a rope out of plastic bags, read this. 

• I cleared out most of the garage, and swept. 
• Hauled an entire trunk full of stuff to Goodwill. 
• Put away Christmas lawn decorations up in the scary attic. 
• Gathered all the things I need to return to the store.
• Sorted thru a ton of other things, and put them in containers. 

So check out some pics, of PHASE ONE. 

Operation, Garage. 

This is what I managed to keep. I'm pretty surprised at how much less space it takes up, once I actually put some effort into it. Up in the attic it shall go, hooray!!!

Things that are on their way to Goodwill, bye bye. Sadly, I think they ended up tossing the trees, I heard them talking about how they aren't supposed to take any more Christmas trees, ummm, I wonder why, lol. Anyway, I would have prob stored them somehow, and sold them, for a few bucks at a yard sale, BUT, after hauling them off, the last thing I wanted to do was bring anything back home. Bummer, I hate, HATE, HATE, throwing things in the trash. 

Some other Christmas decorations, these all fit in a plastic container, so I was happy. 

Oh, yeah, well, this is an old fly swatter I found among all my stuff. Last summer, my fly swatter broke, you know because they are so cheap, and I had a million flies to kill, and I think I smacked them to hard. Well, anyway, fly swatter is just not something I typically remember to buy at the store, sooo, I was getting so frustrated, because I needed to kill me some flies, but I had no fly swatter. OK, no problem, I just took some junk mail, and folded it up, stapled in on the old frame, and wala, instant fly swatter. I think it definitely did the job. I tossed it however, because since then, I've actually stocked up on fly swatters. 

My scary attic. DOes anyhone else HATE going up those kind of ladders. I don't understand how in the world it supports my weight, I freak out every time I need to climb up there. EWWWW..

OMG, can you believe it. I can actually park my van int here again. But I didn't. 

You see, I told you, I cleared this baby out, A LITTLE.

That filing cabinet, and little cabinet thingy, I got for free, from the trash. I need to paint them, and put them in the house, soon. Also there is that huge box, I said I wouldn't keep in my garage. BUT, instead of having like seven other boxes full of old newspapers, I just put them all in there. I am saving my newspapers, for weed barrier, in the garden. Soon, I will be back out there, having fun in my garden, I can't wait. ALso, there is a TON of stuff I need to return at the stores. Don't you hate doing returns, ME TOO. 

TONS, and TONS, and TONS, of storage containers. Mostly filled with stuff that I still need to sort thru, BUT, it's better than having it scattered all over the place. Once I get some shelving up, I should be able to REALLY start going through these, and putting everything where it belongs. 

Today was trash day, and I forgot to put out the trash, and I already had a TON of recycling, and now I have even more. 

My yard sale stuff, and my sewing machine is still there, YUP. 

Oh, wow, shoes are actually put on the shelf. That's weird. Please try not to notice how incredibly dirty my microwave, and toaster oven are. BUT if you must know, we hardly ever use them anymore. Which is good, aren't microwaves supposed to be bad for you?

Here are some of the before pics in case you just had to see, what a difference it is already.

I'm off to bed now, I'm kind of in pain, my back hurts, my hands are all scratched up, my legs hurt, and I'm tired. I did do something kind of cool with that CHRISTMAS tree, I had in my garage. 

Come back tomorrow, to see what I did. 

Thanks again, for encouraging me to get it done today. I really appreciate it. Even though I am FAR from being done, it was a start, and already a HUGE improvement. Just being able to walk in there, is wonderful, lol. 

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