Some unexpected organization...

Saturday Jeff and I got busy in the garage. When we woke up that morning we had no intentions of spending 4+ hours building shelves in our garage, but that's what we did.

We keep our garage relatively organized thanks to the ceiling shelves we put in a few months ago. But we have always had an eye sore in the corner of our garage because of the deep alcove under our stairs, leading up to the second floor.

The master plan all started over breakfast at our favorite pancake house, here in town. We started strategizing over how exactly we would construct the shelves. For the past month we have had the idea in the back of our minds that "one day" we would build these shelves, but after breakfast we were sure we had a final design and we wanted to implement it right away, so we jumped in the car and headed to Lowes.

Here was the problem area...

Lowe's here we come!


Jeff got handy with his new hand saw.


First we built the shelving support.

Here they are all finished. The bottom shelf is 8 ft deep and the top shelf is almost 6'.

And here they are being put to use.
I'm so happy with the outcome and we can sure shove a lot of stuff back in there. Currently we have all of Jeff's drums on the second shelf, and we designed the bottom for our snowboards. I have a feeling we will be building more shelves in our garage now that we know we can do it ourselves.