Remember the clothing project I was working on a few weeks ago? It all came about because I decided to organize the shed, which then took me to the garage and totes of clothes. It's been a bit of a mess since then as I decided to pull about half of what we own out and reorganize. In the process, I decided we definitely needed better shelves to hold all our junk. We called up Dane and asked him if he could help us out. Dane is one of the Larsen children - a family Marcos knew when his family was living in Venezuela. Some of the families from the church in Venezuela have recently gotten together to catch up a little bit. They are such great people! I have only known them a short while, but feel like they are life-long friends. Marcos has such fond memories of that time in his life. "Big Papa Larsen", who was the mission President while Marcos' family was living in Venezuela, came over to watch Dane work one day and Marcos was so excited to see him. Dane did an incredible job on the shelves and gave us the super discounted "we love your family deal". Thanks again, Dane! We owe you a big bbq dinner. :)
Marcos and Big Papa Larsen
The Larsen boys joke about Marcos being his favorite person
They say Marcos was the son he never had (although he had many) - kind of funny.
Marcos chatting with Big Papa Larsen while Dane and his toolbelt work in the background
I never got a picture of Dane - too much going on I guess
I didn't remember to take "before" pictures, but the garage just had three shelves like this before. They were fine, but we needed something bigger and more sturdy. By the way, if you need shelves, I'm selling these. They're great for food storage. I'll even give you the "I love your family" discount. :)
The final product. We really don't have much space at all in the garage. It is a 2-car garage and that's about all it fits so it's amazing how much space this shelving unit freed up for us. There's still room left - AWESOME!
Another view of the shelves
I didn't take a before the of food storage area either, but this was clean and organized compared to what it had become.
Here are the shelves after I painted them (what a pain painting those was - it took me forever!)
The shelves with food storage back on them
Another view of the new shelves - there's also a shelf over the washer and drier to put my laundry stuff on, but I couldn't get the right angle in the room to show that one.
8 comments:
WOW! Looks amazing!
WOW!!! (not to copy you, Laura) but seriously! That is fantastic. There is nothing more wonderful than storage, other than maybe not having to move storage ;)
Looks awesome! You should hire yourself out as a professional organizer! Would be a good way for some supplemental income and you are obviously good!
The shelves are amazing! It looks great!
Oh I'm so jealous! I love an organization project. How much are you selling the old shelves for? We really need some shevling in our garage and in our basement.
We were thinking $20 a piece. They're 6 feet tall, 30 inches wide and 15 inches deep - not huge, but big enough for most things. And the shelves are adjustable so if you need one taller shelf, you can switch them around. We have 4 of them. My sister might want 1, but I for sure have 3, maybe 4 if you're interested.
I'll buy for $20 a piece! Let me know what your neighbor wants and we'll take the rest. Your shelves look great!!! Is that all water in those pop bottles. I never thought of that. If so, did you have to add bleach or anything?
I'll let you know on the shelves. Yes, it's all water in the bottles. Dave and Laura were saying something recently about not using green 2 liter bottles though because the die can get into the water after time. Since I mainly drink Diet Mountain Dew, that's a problem. I'm going to leave them until I can replace them though because I'd rather have slightly tainted water than no water in an emergency. We also use the apple juice bottles, which we buy quite a bit too. I just rinse the bottles with hot water and bleach (like a tsp or something). I read it once, but I use more. Then the water keeps just fine in the bottles. You're supposed to rotate the water so our plan is to do that once a year - around our birthdays so it's easy to remember. We're trying to be prepared, but we're not great at it. :)
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