How it started…4 bare acres behind our house…and a man that dreamed of a bigger garage.

It was finally time to put the indoor projects on hold and begin construction on his long awaited building/garage. Of course as luck would have it, just before we started construction last fall, lumber prices spiked. We waited it out for 6 months and then decided to bite the bullet this summer. To offset the cost of the lumber, we scratched hiring a building crew and built it on our own with the help of family and friends. (My job was to take photos. I don’t think they could have gotten the building done without me.) It was a s-l-o-o-o-w-w process but it’s so close to the finish line. Here’s where my part comes in. Let me show you how it went.

Wait // Grading // Wait Again // Concrete Pad // Wait Some More // Framing // Wait a Little More // Metal Siding & Roof // Wait Again // Shutters & Lighting // Wait Even Longer // Garage Doors // Still waiting on the price of cedar to come down

If I was going to have a metal monstrosity block the view from my kitchen window of the field and the deer running through, the building was going to be cute, gosh darn it. We built more cedar shutters just like the ones we added to the house and installed eight barn lights so you can see it from space just like our house. Good thing I know an electrician.

I might have gotten carried away when I guestimated the size of the metal B we had custom made. I mean, who is ChristyB without a giant metal B?

Slowly but surely getting there.

What’s brighter? The moon or the building?

Where we are now. It drives me bonkers that the posts aren’t wrapped yet but it was either give our first born child in exchange for cedar posts or wait it out until the prices go down.

The goal when dreaming up the new building was to coordinate with the house as much as possible. Picture the building with the white door painted black and cedar posts like the front porch of the house. For a metal monstrosity, I think she’s turning out pretty cute.

He now has his garage he’s been wanting for over 20 years. And I have so much more space for Christmas decorations!! I’ve been told that not a single thing of mine better make it out to that building. Any bets on how long that lasts? 🙂