Garage #1 clearance

Despite being a 3 bedroom house with only a single living area, our property excels itself in having TWO garages. Now don’t get too excited for us. Firstly, both contain many items that will be no use to anyone, now that they have sat in the cold and damp for 10+ years. Secondly, the external garage is predominantly made of corrugated iron sheets, so might be a bit more accurate to refer to it as a very large shed. In any case, our first full day of being homeowners was spent working on the integral garage.

This room is to be our cosy living room. Hard to imagine that this could ever be the case right now. When I pictured our living room it did not include any amount of dried leaves, flowing water (that pesky drain) or a chest freezer so old that it boasts having 50% less CFCs. To take this room even a step towards our ideal cosy living room it needs a door to the rest of the house, a flat and level floor, oh, and mustn’t forget a fourth wall. But for right now, time to declutter…

If you didn’t catch them, here are some of the treasures we found:

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So now after two tip trips, and a little transferring to the shed, the before and after are as follows…

Having to wait for people to take certain items away leaves us a little unsatisfied with the after photos, but there’s a lot less in the way now for when we want to start on renovations.

Final thought: I am so glad that Ethan got us thermal rubber work gloves. Not only do they keep my hands from freezing in this unheated, uninsulated stone box, but they make me feel invincible against the cobwebs, dead insects and (probably rat) droppings that we have come across. Which feels like a win.