What Steve has been up to...

Steve has been wanting to "fix" our closet for awhile. It was poorly designed and always seemed messy. We emptied the closet Friday night, and this is the pile... it amazed me how much stuff you can stuff into a closet!!


By Monday night we had a new closet. He added the shelves for shoes, we were both amazed by the number of shoes we own... He added a second rod on my side, so now both sides have two rods, with a foot at one end of my side that is full length for dresses... smart guy to think of that. He also put in cedar paneling behind the clothes, I didn't take a picture before we put all the clothes back in.


He has also been wanting to fix the stairs that go into our "basement." The previous owners converted the garage into a big family room, as much as we love the space it is not the prettiest room around. (and we really miss a garage!!!) We have gone back and forth on our ideas for the room, turn it back into a garage or fix it up to be a nice space... After three years we decided not to decide and just fix the things that really bug us, future garage or not. So here are the stairs before. They just carpeted the garage stairs, so they were smaller, squeaky and well ugly. They left the door jam, just took the door off the hinges and painted...


Steve took advantage of the kids and I being in Utah for a week and tore out the old stairs. He built new stairs and added the banister. He took out the door jam and made it into an arch. I surprised him and came home a day early so I got to help with the clean up... but he did the rest solo. He likes to work that way, no kids or wife to slow him down or demand his attention...


The arch really made a difference, it feels so much less like a converted garage and more like part of the house. Ky and John wanted to be in all the pictures. This one Ky is showing her pink princess phones. Two because she lost one 6 months ago and got a replacement, then the closet clean out this weekend produced the missing pink princess cell phone.... one less missing toy to keep my up at night. :)