This past fall, Jeremy and I built a 24×24 garage. Yup. From the ground up. That included taking out a couple of trees (One by ourselves and the other we brought in professionals). We did everything ourselves except for the concrete foundation and slab and the door installation. Once the garage was up we could finally get rid of the ugly little red shed that was rotting and contained mice nests and tons of spider egg sacks.

I have lots pictures and such, but with finishing up my masters, actually building the garage, shooting weddings with the lovely Mandy Sroka and then the holidays, I just haven’t had a chance to get them up. Jeremy has put up some updates on his website, lots of photos in his gallery, and the complete story including comments from the peanut gallery can be viewed here at the garage journal.

Jeremy also put together some really awesome videos read on! »

I know I am so slow putting up posts about the updates in my house. Sorry, it is just so hard to paint, hold the camera for pictures and blog about it at the same time! So I will slowly be adding in our renovation stories as I find time. Here is a small improvement that Jeremy added just for me somewhat recently that I really enjoy!

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