No Room for Junk

Our new house has one small closet!  One.  That's it.  Can you believe that?  Of course, we will be using the dead space in the upstairs walls for storage, but downstairs we have to get creative.  We plan on using ALL of our spaces wisely.  So, we will use the space under the stairs.  But we won't just pile stuff up under there like we do here.  More like these pictures...

 

 

 

 

The drawers will be accessible from the downstairs bedroom and not from the living area. 

 

This will help keep us organized and hopefully things will be easily located.

 

By the way, the sheet rock is up in the room I will be using as a studio.  Pictures will be posted soon!

New remodeling term alert!!!   Andrew sistered the joists in the ceiling.  Sistering is basically placing new wood along side of the existing wood.  He did this for more support and also because the ceiling was sagging just a little bit.  So, once he sistered the wood, he cut the sag off of the old wood.  Now the Sheetrock could be put in without a bow, nice and flat.  The Sheetrock is now up in the ceiling for both the living area and kitchen! Here are some pics.

You can see we completely removed the wall in between the kitchen and living areas.  It makes the space feel a lot larger.  We also opened up the stairs by removing part of that wall as well.

We were there today discussing lighting and other things.  Next up is rewiring and plumbing.  And I think we have decided to put the washer and dryer upstairs.   Getting more and more excited!!