Storage Wars

I have started looking at our plans hard to be sure we aren't missing anything. Once the walls go up for each of these rooms; that's it.We are planning on being in this house when we are elderly. This means very little will be stored in the attic.We don't want to be carrying large items up and down the stairs.

 I realized we had no place in mind to store our extra chairs and folding tables that are needed for the big family dinners. Bill said not worry about this that when the kids, grand kids, and great grand kids come over they can pull them down for me. I gave him one of "those" looks, he shook his head and said, "right you'll want everything perfect before they get here."  I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and started wandering looking for a place to store coolers. We use those several times a month to take our food to the lake. I am the person putting the food in the cooler so they need to be low enough for me to get to them.

I had an inspiration, then had to tell Bill I needed to redesign the garage layout.

Ask and I do receive. Bill built a closet on the back side of the pantry wall to store all kinds of stuff. Only took 2 1/2 feet out of the garage space and we have lots of space in it. The bottom four feet will be chair and table storage and then two shelves up above for coolers and such. The top of the closet will become a shelf that will be for storing all the pool toys and life jackets over the winter.

Grand idea!