Home Improvement

So when we bought our home a year and a half ago we were already way ahead of where we thought we would be in the home improvement department. We started off talking about a fixer upper... thank goodness we didn't do that! For those who don't know, the house we bought was basically stripped to the studs and rebuilt... a long term flip. It took the guys 7 months to do the work before we officially bought the house. Sure we had to give up some of the things we wanted to have and the area we are in is not 100% out ideal and there are always projects just like any other house. The good thing is, we still love it! So overall our house is on the smaller side. Our top floor is 860sq ft and the basement is a little less. Our attic has a basic floor in it but isn't livable. We can store some things in it but not everything and definitely not the everyday things we use. Our kitchen is one of the smallest I've seen which leads to more storage issues. We have been using the stairs that go up to our attic as our pantry. I had half of my kitchen stuff in storage because there just wasn't room. Well... things have changed, thank goodness. Clint and I tackled the job of putting up shelving, floor to ceiling in the stairway. We bought the boards, cut them (Clint even got a new electric saw for this project which made him very willing to participate!), painted them, found the studs, mapped out the shelving and screwed every last screw in to the boards and wall. We did it!

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~AFTER~