Recent Home Projects

We've been using some of our quarantine time to complete some much needed projects around the house.  I've had this IKEA Ekorre swings for years and always intended on hanging it in the basement for Parker.  I finally got the hook needed for mounting and both kids have been fighting over it loving it ever since.

We had done some trimming on a small tree in our backyard a couple years ago, then it lost a very large branch last year.  This left it looking pretty shabby, so we decided to take it down completely.  My dad came over with his chainsaw while we watched from the house.  I think it will really open up our yard a lot.

We've been using these coat hooks in our stairwell since we moved in.  They are in a convenient location, but can really narrow things up, especially in the winter.  Our laundry room is through a door just to the left in the pictures below and is a perfect spot for a little mudroom.  

We had already been storing our shoes in here and also had a hutch the Jimmy's grandpa made, a bench that just collected junk, and a beverage refrigerator.  We gave the bench back to my parents and moved the hutch and refrigerator to other walls.  This cleared a whole wall to make something happen.  I ordered some new shoe racks, coat hooks and a hanging basket.  One set of hooks is lower so the kids are easily able to hang up their owns things.  The baskets are going to be mainly used in the winter to keep the seemingly endless amount of hats and gloves organized.

The organization continued in the garage.  It's a bit of a curse and a blessing to have such a big garage.  Plenty of room to store things and plenty of room to collect junk and messiness.  I removed a built in wood shelf on the right and side and moved the white shelf over that had been on the left.  This opened up a space to keep all of our receptacles. At some point I hope to get rid of the wood stove, which will open it up even more.

We were left a lot of great storage solutions by the previous owner and I hope to utilize them more in the future.

I finished removing the wood storage that was at the back of our garage and used the 2 x 4s to create some new hanging storage for tools. The ladders were previously hanging on a side wall, next to our van.  They were pretty secure, but could have caused some damage if they ever fell.  They are now off to the side and won't damage a vehicle is they do fall.