Saturday, December 22, 2012

Our First Remodel Project

It's hard for me to believe it, but we've been in our new house for almost two months now.  We've done all sorts of little things to make the house our home, but nothing really big... until now.

One of the things that our house is lacking is a front door... the only entrance into the front of the house is through the garage, which isn't very welcoming.

Theresa had a great idea: to build an entrance in through the side of the garage.  It'll all make more sense when it's done, but the initial steps are completed:

This is the current "front door" (as seen from the inside of the house looking out to the garage).


Walls will be built around the floor I just built; the current front door will be removed; a new updated front door will be added to the exterior wall of the garage; and the old front door will be used as an entrance from the garage.

















It will all make more sense when it's finished, but this new entrance will give us much needed closet space.  Right now when the boys come in the house, the coats and shoes basically just go on the floor:

This works for the adult coats, but the kids coats basically end up on the floor...
I hope to build a proper closet for coats and then add something like this for the boys:
This would certainly help with the clutter... we'll just have to train the boys to use it!














As you can imagine, we have a lot of projects planned... we'll try our best to update the blog... it's more for us... the blog makes for a nice "picture album".