Weekend Activities: Storage Room

We’re feeling the heat–not only the temperature, but also the fact that my parents will be moving in to our basement suite in just over a month!

To make room for them, the first thing to be done is organize the storage room.  I forgot to take a “before” picture of the messy storage room, but here it is in the basement kitchen:

Could *you* live here?

Some of that really needs to be in storage.  Others are boxes we just haven’t unpacked since moving a year ago.

We found some great modular shelving at IKEA.  Heavy-duty metal shelving, free-standing or attached to the wall, large shelves, just what I was looking for (and couldn’t find at the obvious places like Rona, Home Depot, or even Storage Solutions).

So this weekend we finished installing the shelves and started sorting through the piles.  (Helen is currently having fun sorting just one of those boxes, which holds years of old letters!  Remember those?  The kinds made out of paper?)

Ahh, that's more like it!

 

Monday Evening

Here’s the finished product–or at least the landscapers are finished:  now it’s our turn to water, water and water some more for the next couple of weeks!

So what’s been done?  The yard was leveled out so it’s a gentle slope instead of two separate levels; the upper part used to be a gravel parking pad but now the whole thing is sodded; four trees were planted; a garden bed on the north side ready for vegetables and/or flowers in the spring; a ditch along the fence filled in and sodded; and a firepit removed (we’ll likely put it back in a new spot later in the summer).

 

Saturday Evening

[This is part 3--read Before first, then During, then this.  Parts 4, 5, 6, and whatever else is needed will follow!]

Definite progress!  We now have a garden bed, some sod laid, and four very nice trees, one of which you see here.  This is the lilac; we also have an Ash, an Amur Maple, and a Trembling Poplar, Nate’s favorite.

They’ll be back to finish…

 

During

[See "Before" for the before...]

10:00 and we’re hard at work–or rather, we’re eating breakfast on the patio watching and snapping pictures.

Around noon, a forced lunch break when a buried cable snaps.  Why didn’t they Call Before You Dig??!?  Also a forced blogging delay because that cable carries all our Internet bits.

But quickly fixed with a call to Shaw…

… so they can get back to sodding…

… we can get back to ogling …

… and I can get back to blogging.

 

Before

9 o’clock this morning: