Time for a few house projects

Over our holiday vacation, we knocked out some small house projects at the top of our to-do list --- complete our "library", construct our sports closet and a bonus: hang the kayaks on loan from Hal and Margaret in the garage.

A before shot of the space were the library would reisde --- our house had the option of an elevator, so we have tons of storage space on each floor. We wanted to make the most out of the main floor and figured a place to keep our books would be ideal.

And voila! The finished product. Not carpenter quality, but Megan and I built it together --- it turned out not half bad.

As for our sports equipment, we used the downstairs closet and some simple pegboard (which Megan had a strange fondness for --- wanting to more up elsewhere in the house). It will be nice to not have to dig through large tupperwares to find specific stuff. We look fwd to the added convenience --- we're now 6% more efficient.

As mentioned above, we transferred the Schmitts' 2 kayaks from Lynchburg to Charlotte in hopes of getting some winter use --- based on the weather over the last month, we should definitely be able to get them in the water.

The Jeep was happy to participate.

At 12ft we had to be creative considering the layout of our garage, so we constructed a simple storage system above the garage doors.

In all, we accomplished quite a bit in a couple days and look fwd to finding time for the next items on our list: Shelving for the garage and a trip to the nursery to explore options for the space around our patio.