We need a garage!

One of the bad aspects of moving from the 1500 square foot house in Dallas to the 2400 square foot Country house was that it had no garage.  We really needed a garage.  We used the Tuff shed for all of the stuff from our storage units and the attic.  Well we used it for a lot of stuff, but we ran out of room.  I had a lot of things in the garage in Dallas.  I had my workbench set up for doing stained glass, I had a lot of my crafting items out there too, and tools that I used.  I had purchased quite a few tools to make my life easier when making repairs and building things...and then I built a workbench, I also had rescued a glass top desk I wanted to use as a light table for the stained glass, and I wanted to learn soldering to make jewelry and was in the process for acquiring tools for that too.

We had a storage area that we put my workbench and some of my tools and glass, it was also the storage room that we put the water heater in, and some shelving, and paint, and tools, and camping equipment and wood, and of course the lawn equipment for ease of use.  It is full of different stuff, there is more...just know that it is full, and if you need much out of there you have to pretty much unload it to get to things on the shelves.  Our last load from the U-Haul was also sitting on the back porch.  The back porch is covered and screened in (sort of) but the humidity is high and we needed to have somewhere dry to store things and to work on projects.  We knew the date we were suppose to sign the papers on the other house, so we went shopping for our "garage".

We looked at Home Depot and Lowes in Texarkana at buildings, and we looked at several road side spots that sold different styles and sizes of buildings.  We weren't real happy with the people at Tuff Shed, so we thought we would try someone different.  We ended up getting a pre-constructed wooden building because the metal buildings required a slab to sit on, we didn't have a slab where my husband wanted the building and it was not level either.  The place we ordered the building from said they would level the building when they dropped it off.  I think it was about two weeks later that they brought the building out, and we had room for the garage type items.  But, Crew wanted to put insulation in the building and we needed stairs to get into it...we headed to Lowe's for supplies.

Our Garage/Shop...a work in progress

Crew wanted lights too, and shelving, this was Crew's project...I helped, but I had projects of my own...I had shelves to line, boxes to unpack, hardware to install.  Crew got foam board insulation, it required cutting...it was funny seeing him with all those styrofoam beads stuck to him