Since we moved in I have desperately wanted to clean and organize the garage. It has been a mess of partially unpacked boxes and lumber, tools and toys. Last weekend we made a good step toward getting it organized. It started with organizing the attic. I love this attic. For starters it has storage space, and quite a bit. I would estimate it is about a 14x12 foot area with a plywood floor for walking and stacking boxes. It is the size of a large self-storage unit. It is amazingly dust free for an attic. There is lighting and a catwalk that extends for probably half the length of the attic and provides easy access to all of the attic-based utilities such as the heating and air units, and cable and electrical wire runs and the like.

One minor downside is that like our yard and garage, the attic has mice. I put 3 brand new boxes of poison in the attic a couple months back, and when I checked them this past weekend they were completely empty, so that gives you a sense of the problem. Hopefully this also implies that the problem is much smaller now. I just hope they are not poison resistant super-mice that are simply getting a tasty snack from my poison boxes. But truthfully we never see or hear from the mice, so it is really only a problem in theory.

To make a long story shorter, I organized all the stuff we had already put in the attic, and we moved up a bunch more stuff from the garage. The garage is a lot more empty now, though we still have more to do. We also pulled down a bed that was left in the attic by the prior owners. It turned out to be a solid oak twin bed and trundle combo that looks like it will be perfect for one of the bedrooms. Score!

Here is the organized attic.