SUCCESS!!!

Finally after working on it for 5 days...I FINALLY finished the garage!!!! It was no easy task, but at least the weather was nice. And with my fan blowing and my radio blaring...once I got started it really wasn't too bad. I am embarrassed beyond belief to show the before pictures, but I am so proud of my work, and I I really don't think you can appreciate it without seeing the horror in which I began! I had not done anything in that garage in over a year except to throw junk in it so it was quite nasty. It also had those Styrofoam "peanuts" all over the floor and those are a pain to get up...they are so lite and they stick to everything.

Ok, here are the before pics...

Look at the junk pile in my front yard waiting for the trash man!!!

But all the hard work was worth it...TaaDaa!!..............

The rocking chair will be refinished one day...

We don't use the garage to park our cars in, it is more like a game-room for the kids/workout room...especially during the cooler months!

We are having a garage sale in October and even more stuff will be outta there. I am so excited, maybe I can get motivated to clean up the rest of my house now!:-)

Garage Clean-out

Today I am vowing to get my nasty garage cleaned out by the weekend! I am starting on it today...I'll take "before" pictures but I'm not posting them until I have "after" pictures to go with them! For those of you that might not know, my garage has been a pain in my side for a while. After the "storm" I stored a lot of my Mother-In-Laws belongings that were salvaged from the carnage Katrina left. That was my excuse to not have it clean...then when my M-I-L got her stuff out, I cleaned it up really good. I worked very hard on it. I even painted a mural on one corner of it for the kids to have a play area. I wanted it to be a game room type with the work-out equipment and stuff. Well, that didn't last too long...we started piling up the junk again...now you can't even walk in there!

Here are some pictures of my mural right after I did it...

Hopefully I can get it looking like this again...

This one is for you Roan!:-)

I can't back out now!