Projects...

...if you have a house, then you probably have these as well. Our weekends have been filled with small, fun home improvement activities ever since we moved in. Here a are a few photos of what we have been up to.

(This is James by the way. I had noticed that we haven't had any pictures on here for a while. Hopefully this will get us back on track.)

Just this morning I installed this beautiful hand towel rack in our downstairs bathroom. It already had a towel rack but we decided to move the old one upstairs so that our upstairs bathroom would have two matching towel racks.

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This is our storage under the stairs. A few weeks ago, I put up those white shelves at the back of the closet. We still need to get some storage bins for all of that loose stuff but at least it is up, out of the way, and easy to get to. The wooden shelves on the right side were here when we moved in. They hold our DVDs and CDs nicely.

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On the floor of that storage closet is a secret door (shhhh!) that leads down to our crawlspace.


I put some shelves and a cardboard floor down there. This will now be our food, water and whatever else storage. It's pretty dang sweet down there. It's also a great place to put Zoe when she has one of her "moods". You can barely hear her screams!
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We thought it would be nice to have a shelf, coat rack and key hooks right by our front door. So here they are!

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This is the beginnings of our excuse for a garden. Desta has been working on this during the day. We are by no means "gardeners" (yet) but there's no reason we can't become such, right?

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This is probably the most work intensive project we have done. This corner of our back yard was filled with wood chips and was pretty useless, wasted space. So we dug them all out, as well as all of the rocks that were underneath them. The old owners had left a stack of landscaping blocks, so we leveled the ground and made good use of them. The blocks did not cover the entire area so we filled the rest in with the rocks we dug up. Doesn't look to shabby. We now have a permanent home for our grill.

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This is out latest project that we haven't started yet. We finally got the bench seat for our table that we have wanted ever since we bought the table over 3 years ago. You can't really tell in the picture but the bench is unfinished. We are going to finish it to match the rest of the set. Wish us luck.

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So, that's what we've been up to. What fun projects have you guys been working on lately?