#you win those were both sources of inspo <3
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i'll give you the best years.
pairing: naya x rider (@wayhavenots oc!)
a/n: probably.......the longest one-shot i ever wrote. forgive me y'all...i think this could be like one tv show episode :sob:. Also, song inspos : 5sos - best years, better - Khalid. and there's this one scene from the book twisted hate kinda inspired one particular line in this story aha! pd, i hope u like it <3 enjoy! (FORGIVE ME FOR GRAMMAR ERRORS, WE DIE LIKE HEROES HERE.)
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Naya walked into the room, no scowl - no anything, just a wide satisfied Naya-certified smile on her face. Greeting everyone in the room, a different person entirely. But, she doesn't care at all, the looks were amusing to her - and it's worth the excitement. She's finally opening herself up to dating, in other words; seeing somebody. She met someone, a good person she believes; and they decided to meet tonight. And ecstatic is an understatement.
"Did the world just turn around, or did the Naya Davis just smile at everyone?" And there it is, the source of her somewhat annoyance, named Rider McQueen. Slicked back hair, smug smile, beautiful eyes - also, perhaps a nice ass too. She turns her head to face her damned co-worker there and smiles. A bit too snarky, a bit too smug to match with his.
"I apparently scored myself a date, Mcqueen. It's a win for me, don't you think?" She begins to walk away from him, as his eyes widen at the word 'date'. He absentmindedly followed her steps to where their desks are. Hers is opposite to his, to his damned luck, unfortunately. But, the word 'date' still lingers on his mind, as Naya begins to fiddle around her files.
He wanted to ask himself, why does he feel the sudden disappointment. Like his heart has been shattered by that reality, maybe it's the harboring crush in him. Who would've thought, he would fall for Naya out of everyone. The one he always taunted every day, and he enjoys those little moments of them - the rarest moment where he saw the amusement in her smile during their patrols, their banters and there she is, she's going on a date with someone. Someone who is not him.
He clears his throat as Naya turns her back to him, passing the files his way. Putting his head up, a smile on his face. A teasing smile of his, a facade he hopes.
"Well, good luck on the date Davis. Tell us all about it will ya?" He says and walks away before she could reply with the banter of her own. Work fills his mind the whole day, questions engulfing in a way. He did his job, but unanswered questions tend to linger for far too long.
Hours passed, and there was no in-between banter at the coffee machine. Nothing during lunch hours, the station is uncharacteristically quiet. It's a rarity of quiet for him, and Naya too. Even Tina kept on glancing at them both, somehow confused by the sudden shift.
He did not notice, it was already past five. Naya had left a few moments ago, he heard squeals and giggles of excitement between her and Tina. He guesses, she's prepping herself for the night, he solely wonders; who's the mystery person? What will she wear? What they will do? Questions that shouldn't be inhibiting in his mind, he should not be thinking those. He should be focusing on the next painting perhaps, a new drawing, something old - something new, and his thoughts were interrupted as Tina came crashing in with an 'i know what's going on, but you're gonna tell me after all' look and he sighs.
"I thought the world has gone to a flip today."
"Don't be too surprised actually." He tries to be nonchalant, but hey, Tina sees through him anyway.
"So...do you wanna talk about it?"
She smiles, as he sighs. It's going to be a long evening.
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It's almost 8:30 p.m. She's here, she's prepared. Maybe that's her one chance again, to open up. A chance to let someone in, and the person she's meeting tonight going to change that. They've been exchanging texts a lot lately, for someone who never smiled on her phone for far too long - this was a very unsettling development.
She left early, as her shift does that day. A very lucky day and she gets herself ready. Quite excitedly as one does for a date. A special occasion they say. Her dress is ready for the night, and her hair was curled; she realizes it's been a while since she has dolled up for a date. It feels weirdly right.
The restaurant was filled, it was a Friday night after all. They made reservations, they did plan it all. But, sometimes; plans are not enough. It's the effort that counts, and she did not think this through. The tables around her were filled with smiles and giggles, and there she was; with such hope within herself. For the first ten minutes, she lets it slide, hoping it was a mistake. Hoping the person takes a wrong turn and is on their way. For another ten minutes, as she sat taking a small sip of the red wine, wondering did something happened along the road, maybe a road construction? As she sips the next few glasses, she wasn't tipsy as one should be. Her metabolism helps her with it, but the time went by, she realizes the person isn't coming at all. She notices the looks passersby gave her, the waiters - as they pour her a new glass of red wine.
She should have known, it's never going to happen for her. She knows, she shouldn't give up that easily, but hope is something she gave up a long time ago. But, she's still Naya. Naya Davis, she would not let anyone see her this way. She stands up, with a strut of confidence in her; and takes a final sip before paying the bill, ignoring all the curious looks that were sent her way.
'Walk away with confidence, never let people see you at your weakest.' Her mind replayed the mantra, as she takes a cab for the night. Destination unknown.
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Unknown, lead her to the station. Even in distress, work was her distraction. And, without her trusty bike for the night - work was the second available option. The cab driver checked on her a few times, as she stares outside the window. Mellow is different from her true self. She walked out of the restaurant in her way, yet one cannot stand strong for far too long. Her shoulders sag as she sat down in the cab, asking for a distraction. The cab driver drove everywhere, the old man sympathize with her but did not say a thing. She's grateful, as she steps into the station. Empty, only a few dimmed lights.
She takes off her coat, before taking a seat. She begins, a distraction; as the dimmed light covers her weakness from the world. That's one of the moments where she does not want anyone to see, and... the footsteps coming into the room prepare to prove that notion to be untrue.
"Tina, I thought you have left. What..." His words stopped, along with his tracks at the sight of Naya wiping her tears away. She straighten herself up and continues to work as if she did not just cry in front of him. Well, cry is a large word, she prefers; possibly teared up.
"I'm just working on some extra work from earlier." She continues as if the act was something that did not exist. The moment before did not exist, as Rider walks towards his seat. Facing Naya, they both somewhat let the quiet take over. She did not want to explain why she was getting teary-eyed over a date who stood her up. She would not let him get to her, but her eyes lingers on him a little. His clothes are a bit messy from earlier today, but he somehow still manages to pull off adorable, and she mentally slaps herself for even thinking about how good her co-worker who is sitting on the opposite of her looks.
He saw her through the corner of his eye, and he controls himself from smiling. He fakes a cough before his eyes and gaze fall towards him for a moment. Observing even for a split second, even under the dimmed light, the red shines brightly from her outfit. It's bright, and bold just like Naya, herself. And her hair, much more curly by the strands of it - maybe she did her hair before, and her face; the tear stains can be visible if he is in the distance where one's kissing someone. Not that he thought of it, thought of kissing her lips every time she said something very intellectual or during the moments, he caught her off-guard, laughing; smiling. He wants to be the reason for that smile, and he wants her to keep on smiling too. The image of her under the dimmed light, and he guesses, the date did not arrive.
Crap, that person stood her up.
The realization made him frown, as Naya gaze up at him; meeting his eyes. An understanding passed between them, as Rider stood up; leaving the room - leaving her there on her own once again.
"Tina, a favor for a favor; it's time for you to pay my dues." He says confidently outside of the station, something of an old favor that she brought up on him to use whenever. And now seems to be a good time for it.
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Naya continues her work, before Rider stepping into view once again. He takes a seat on the opposite of her, but his gaze lands on her. The work pile from before was abandoned.
"follow me." He simply says, earning a raised of an eyebrow from Naya herself as she did not trust his orders. What if he is playing a trick..but alas, curiousity wins. She takes her jacket too, and her pouch in hand following him outside of the station.
She follows his steps, a stop in front of his car. As he stops her there, a few inches behind - as he turn around to reveal a full filled...picnic basket. Not a typical picnic basket she thinks, he holds it out in front of her as she took a peek. There's a lot of random stuff mixed together, this wasn't a plan; well it was a pretty recent plan she believes. And there's only one person she can associate with on finding her favorite sweets in there, and the person is Tina Poname.
"what's with the basket?" This is very very adorable, she thought. But she wouldn't say that to his face.
Before he could answer, another familiar voice appears out of nowhere and their heads turn in surprised. Naya is super amused, while Rider tries his best to shoo one Tina away.
"Enjoy you fellow lovebirds, I'll close up the station tonight."
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With Tina away from their vision, Rider opens up the door for Naya to get in. As the amused smile still painted on her face at his embarrassment.
"Where are we going?"
"Somewhere..fun." He simply says that the journey itself was indeed an interesting one. She never knew this place existed, as Rider steps out of the car, she immediately follows. There are a couple of can sprays of paint scattered in the corner, and a few graffiti drawings - a deja vu towards their patrol. The night she kissed him, and.. he returns it too. The R.M initial painted in black made her quirk up a little, before Rider walks forward, with the basket in hand.
She walks alongside him, with her heels in hand; somehow she gave up on it halfway through the night. She follows him to the area, somewhat a large rooftop; however, it's tended with a few flowers grown too.
"What is this place?"
"The Rider-cave, or known as a breathing place of my own. The paintings are mine, however, the plants were there since I found it. So, why not take care of it." He explains before they take a seat on a ledge as Rider places the basket in between them.
She stands there still, somehow reluctantly.
"Come on over."
"What's these all about actually? Is this a plan to bury my body somewhere huh?" She says, somehow curious. Just, why?
He laughs for a moment, she felt herself shiver at the sound of loud laugh in the night. "Oh no, you figured out my plan don't ya Davis?" He chuckles again before clearing his throat at the raised of an eyebrow thrown his way.
"I..I wanted to cheer you up. And, this is apparently my idea of cheering someone up. Also, I vouched for Tina to get those favorite chocolates of yours." he says sheepishly, somewhat not meeting her eyes. He's looking at the view in front of him instead of hers. What a sight to be seen, as Naya slowly makes her way to the other side of the seat. The basket is opened, as Rider is still looking at the view. She takes a seat, and she placed the heels on the side. The chocolates, the ones she tends to take between works are there, a whole packet of them. She smiles at the sight of it before she turns to face the view as well mirroring Rider's actions.
"The view is actually a jackpot to be honest" Naya begins, breaking the silence between them.
"One of the hidden gems of wayhaven." He smiles too before he passed one of the chocolates her way. She takes it gratefully, somehow - a moment of silence continues, contrasts to their banter in the station. Only munching sounds to be heard, as they both devour the chocolate.
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"Thank you for the chocolates McQueen." She says, before Rider stops her mid-sentence.
"the food needs to be devoured first and then you can thank me Davis. I'll accept in all forms, cash, compliments, cases even" He says winking at her before passing the next meal; something of a pastry she believes, and apparently some quick foods. And afterward, it becomes normal. Not their usual normal, a normal where they were comfortable, no rivalry for a position, no name talking, only them, good food, and just rider talking filling the time. She listens intently, letting out chuckles and smiles in between. She still couldn't believe he did this for her - she kept herself quiet for a moment first, letting the thought cloud her mind before it could (possibly) ruin the moment.
They sat there a moment, and she turns to face him. Her knees buckled, and Rider felt her eyes on him. Hazel eyes watch him from a fair close distance, one distance that does not seem very far.
"one question."
Rider downs his drink, before turning to face her.
"Why did you do all these for me?" The tense Naya has disappeared, she's much amused - forgetting her date-less night hours ago. The memory has dissolved in her mind ever since they got here, and she never thought of a night with one Rider Mcqueen.
He takes another bite of their food, trying to somewhat answer or avoid. A bit of both, before he begins to say.
"Because you'd be sad and weird to be around if I didn't. And, you know. I like being around you when you're not sad. When you're snarky and laughing and smile like the sun, for just a second, before you have to be Cool Naya again." He clears his throat. "Plus I was hungry and bored, so." Shrugging it off, like it was nothing - but, it wasn't nothing.
"You think I am cool then?" She says, ignoring the rest of the sentence. A small smile, as she takes a bite of the...pastry she thinks.
"Duh, Cool Naya; bossing others around - it's a funner side to see. And we got food. Cool Naya, food, and me. What a combo don't you think?" He prides himself a bit, making her laugh again. He swears, that's the best sound he ever heard since the few times he witness it. He once did made her laugh, and that moment follows by a lip-lock of their own. The possibility of that outcome, is unknown; he believes mostly to zero. But, seeing her smile - well, that's a full 100. That's perfection in his eyes. And he smiles, mirroring hers. Bigger, wider, just as he wants to be.
"It's a very interesting combo. So, who's the main dish here?" She asks as Rider felt himself choke upon the food he's munching on. She laughs even harder, just to poke on the man himself. She quickly pass the water to him, and she smiles.
"I think you're particularly dressed to be the main dish there Davis." He says, eye-ing the dress. Somehow, his voice got caught within his throat. Somehow, under the skies - he got to see her clearly. A version of an evil in a red dress. She's always been an angel, with a heart of gold, and that devillish red lipstick of hers. As, her eyes widen at the comment, before she smiles a little.
"Well, I do tend to dress to impress Mcqueen. Did I make an impression on you then?" She replies with quite a flirtatious tone he believes.
Rider Mcqueen is speechless. The man is tongue-tied. And, the source was the person sitting on the opposite of him. Naya freaking Davis, and to answer her question. Yes, yes she did make an impression to him for as long as he could remember.
"Yes, yes you did." His voice is quiet, slow, as Naya's laughter fades with his voice. Only to be met with his eyes, vulnerable to her. Only to her, something he never wants her to see.
The quiet lingers, as Naya turns to face forward. Her eyes watched the car below, cruising across the road. The banter is over, as vulnerability engulfs them both. To admit such a thing, was a bold move for him. And she decides to do the same.
"I...the person stood me up. And, they disappeared. I called, no one's there to answer. It somehow felt like a trick, a trick to me." She begins to say, as a chuckle escape. That's maybe to clear the tension, and Rider looks at her, with a frown.
"Yeah, so...I got nowhere to go. And, then there I am."
He moves the basket away to his side, before scooting over to her. Just a shoulders length of distance, with their fingers, almost touching. He lets out a breath before he links their pinkies together. She looks down, at their linked pinkies and smalls a little. Her glassy eyes, as his thumb, wiping it away.
'I'll always answer you.' He muttered a few words, she couldn't catch before he smiles again.
"Pinky promises tends to make people smile, so - I hope you don't mind it." He grins her way, as she nods.
"I think I liked it even more."
"The scowly Naya adores pinky promises, I think I have to write this down. Maybe report it for the papers?" He teases her, before he felt a playful punch on his shoulder.
"Shut up Rider." He smiles again, only the fact that's the first time she used his first name. Are they on first name basis? Are they.
"Make me." He says, smiling again her way. Somehow there's a tiny bit of hope has been planted in him, a pinch of deja vu as well.
She chuckles once again, the force pulling her in as her hands are on his cheeks. Closer, where the tear stains are visible in his eyes. The distance, he never thought he would be again. He wants to be closer, closer, and closer. His next words, were an impulse, a sober thought that felt to be said during drunken moments.
"Make me...Naya" he whispers it again - her name included, as they are a breaths away from one another before their lips meet.
Distance. Be. Damned.
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An empty space, every little space shall be damned at the feel of her lips on his. Kissing her, returning the gesture - as her hands trying so hard not to land on her waist. However, her sudden moves shook him as well. His hands land on her waist, pulling her closer where their chests collided.
This....was not the plan. They did not plan this, yet this is the best outcome they got. Rider makes a mental note, by kissing them is the best way to shut people up. And, he wants to test this theory again and again, as her lipstick was utterly ruined by his lips. And, he liked it better.
He held her there, as they pull away. A look of realization widens through her eyes, as Rider held her there. A steady anchor for her, as she breathes in and out. Is this what she wanted? The kiss that reminds her of one memory, a swindled of a memory. Her lips were on his, under the dark skies. And they are there again, a mutual action because it does take two to tango.
And he kissed her again, and again and again. With every breath she held, he wants every little bit of it. And she returns it too, as the moon was their witness. The basket and everything that's tangible, and there they are - lips intertwined, as she lays her head on his shoulder. A breath of relief, as he held her there.
"I never did see that coming." Muffled whispers escaped her lips.
"Me too" he replies truthfully, what a turn of events for them. He intended to cheer her up, to put that smile on her face - making her Naya again. But, plans changed as the stars align. He realizes, he is looking up - however, with a B in English; he did not know how to describe it in a poetic sense. But, when he looks at her. The stars will be damned, as she raises her head up to meet with his eyes. The stars were dancing within her eyes, and the tear stains were a metaphor for orbits under, spinning, kept on moving, kept on rotating just like she does.
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They sat there quietly, as the sound of cars below filled their eardrums. Naya lays her head on his shoulder. What a night, what an unexpected night for them.
"I'll always answer you." He says quietly, repeating from before. As she turns to face him.
"I'll always answer you, I would not leave you there alone. I'll buy you your favorite chocolates even if I have to travel across the city. I'll smudge your lipstick in the best way possible.." She chuckles again at that before he continues.
"I'll always answer you. I'll never stop, never will, and never wanted to Davis." He confesses to her, every word orchestrated perfectly.
Words couldn't comprehend her emotions, as she kissed him again. A yes, an 'i know' and everything in between. And she knows, he's telling the truth.
She'll be damned, she'll be damned to let him go. So, she kissed him - again and again, as an alternative for words. All the 26 letters in the alphabet couldn't comprehend, because in her mind - nothing feels better than this.
Nothing feels better than to be seen, to be heard, to be answered by the most unexpected person ever.
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She takes out her phone, earning a confused look from Rider. As she fiddles around it, she a small smile. Rider however still confused, as a familiar ringtone filled their eardrums.
The man is amused, answering the call. His eyes never left hers, as he begins the conversation.
"Hey." He begins smiling widely her way, as her heart begins to burst. She wanted to bottle the memory up forever, as she replies.
"Hi."
"See. Naya Davis, I'll always answer you."
"I know." She replies through the phone, before ending it again. Rider places the phone away before he leans in forward, taking her hands in his.
"Then, may I?"
She nods, as the moment begins where it ends; with the bad memory forgotten in the back of her mind.
A new mental note, Rider McQueen's lips are quite addictive and she wanted to do it all over again, every day if she could - and one more thing, nothing indeed feels better than this.
And from there on, she got the best years. The best years that were given to none other than him - and, no regrets. And that's the best way of living life, living it with no regrets.
THE END.
#alya writes#x: naya x rider#oc: naya davis#oc: rider mcqueen#fic tag#in the similar universe of wayhaven#just with them <3#ahhh; THIS IS DONE FINALLY IMMA GO SLEEP NOW
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Arplis - News: Hi guys, Brian here
I’m writing this post because we found out yesterday that Emily is allergic to pollen. Like, suuuuper allergic. Like, looking at her you’d think she’d watched “The Notebook” and the opening sequence from “Up” back to back. Her poor little lash-less eyes are so red and watery that she can barely see. Also she’s been so congested at night that she can’t sleep. So last night she took something to knock herself out, and she’s still out as I write this, which is 7:39 am on Friday. That’s crazy for Emily, she’s usually up at 5:30 writing posts for the blog. So now I’m up early writing for the blog. I’ll keep you posted on when she wakes up… Hopefully, she goes for a while, she needs it.
Let’s start with a video so you can get the full scale and get Emily right before the pollen fully attacked (just wait for the ad to play).
OK. I’m back. The garage. This has a special significance for me because there’s something innate in men to have a squared away garage. I think it’s because the garage is the one room in the house (or out of the house I guess) where function matters more than form. It’s kind of the only place where I can win some design battles. In a garage, you’re not trying to figure out which pouf would offset the muted tones of a chaise lounge, you’re trying to figure out how many rakes can we fit on that wall. And that’s my kind of design.
The problem is, I’m lacking motivation to do things right now, which I think is a symptom of the whole quarantine thing. After home-schooling the kids in the morning, I find myself acting like an old British man, mumbling incoherently and stumbling around the house in a daze until cocktail hour.
But Emily, pre-allergies, is ever-motivated and kept threatened to do the garage herself until I acquiesced. So off to the garage we went!
Our garage here at the Mountain House is pretty small and has not been organized in about a year. Plus it was the storage site for the reader event we threw and photoshoots we did last year, so there’s a lot that needs to be sorted and donated or driven back to LA.
Here’s Emily showing off the space before her face got attacked by pollen.
As you can see, we never spent a lot of time thinking about the organization of this space. Emily and I are both kind of “I’ll just put this here and deal with it later” people, which isn’t a good combination when it comes to garages. We’ve got a shelving unit up, but it’s not being used very well. And we’ve got lots of random stuff near the shelves, but we just didn’t make it to the final step of putting them on the shelves, which is hilarious. Plus we have a bunch of stuff we need to find new homes for (not in our home) like the rugs, and some chairs, and some lampshades. We have a LOT of random lampshades. Anyone else have that problem?
BTW, it’s 8:01 am, and still no Emily. It’s getting to that point where I might go check to see if she’s still breathing.
So after Emily got the old British drunk to focus on the garage, we figured out some specific things that we needed: storage for our tools and yard stuff, space for our bikes, an area that we can rotate for seasonal things like beach stuff in summer and sled stuff in winter, a redesign of the shelving, and of course space enough to park my 6 seat “Ferrari” golf cart, which I will still defend as one of the best craigslist finds any human has ever made.
I mean the best, right?? Ok moving along…
It should be noted that there originally wasn’t access to the garage from inside the house so we put in that little stairway (it has to be that big for code, but we could certainly reduce its footprint). We love the access and we use it all the time but it does mean that we will never be able to put an actual car in here. But honestly, it’s so small that we don’t know if we would have been able to fit our big cars anyway. So yes, we need to be able to put the Ferrari in there, but that’s about it.
Here are more pics of the whole original mess:
We have a lot of Christmas stuff in those bins, which takes up a lot of space. We need to find a new spot for it though because it’s silly that something we only use for two months is dictating so much space for the whole year.
First Round of Organization
After everything was removed and cleaned it was much easier to see what might be possible in there. We gave some stuff to some neighbors up here, we drove some stuff back to LA, we relocated some stuff, and we learned that we had a lot of broken things that had to go in the trash.
Emily just came out of the bedroom, it’s 8:11 am. I don’t think she’s slept in that late since college. She says she’s feeling better today.
So here are some decisions we still need to make:
We need shelving, but could certainly make it nicer than that. And while we love that staircase do we want to make it nicer than that? Paint the janky railing? Like I said, we could have made it just three steps down without the railing but not legally, so we put in this big guy. We aren’t terribly motivated to demo it out and likely will just work with it for now.
The big black fridge came out of the kitchen during the remodel, and we were using it for secondary food storage, until someone accidentally unplugged it before we left for a few months. When we came back and made the mistake of cracking the door open, we were slapped with the most gag-inducing putrid smell and discovered a moldy sludge that had covered all the surfaces. We closed it back up and there it sits like the arc of the covenant, waiting to melt someone else’s face off. We tried disinfecting it, but it may be a lost cause. We need to make a call on this one. Like how much do we REALLY need a garage fridge??
Emily doesn’t think we need a garage fridge, because apparently she’s ok with pulling out 12 pounds of food to access the thing she wants in the back of our kitchen fridge. She says we’re doing fine without it now, but I’m less optimistic. Maybe things will change in a bit, but right now we are doing huge grocery shops to lessen the frequency of shopping, which means that every time we open the fridge it’s like that cliché scene in every comedy movie where the guy opens the closet full of stuff and everything falls on top of him, capped by a late bowling ball to the head. That’s our fridge, but it’s a jar of bread and butter pickles that rolls out last.
I also think a garage fridge is a perfect pace for beverages, which take up a bunch of room. And our kids aren’t old enough yet to try to steal adult beverages out of the garage fridge, so we’re good right? I mean, once they turn 13, I’ll put a lock on it, like my friend Alan’s dad should have. But for now, we’re good. What do you guys think? Fridge or no fridge?
I got a big-brimmed hat at the hardware store and I’m now super into yard work. I bagged 17 contractor bags of oak leaves last week and still have more to do, so I obviously need some space for my tools.
We have this little nook that is a covered space for storage if need be (and another entrance into the garage), we may put the bikes in here if we can figure out how to get them in there and still have space to get into the garage from the side yard. It took hours for us to clean and it wasn’t pretty. It was full of so much extra tile, leaves, random paint cans, our friend’s kayaks we just inherited, and empty gross Pepsi bottles left over from the construction crew (from two years ago). We feel very accomplished that it looks like this now:
We actually found some unused space up in the attic that we stuffed all the Christmas and winter stuff in, which was super helpful. The attic entrance is across from the kids’ play area, and the other storage space we have is behind a hidden door that goes to the guts of the house.
What’s Now?
We still have to figure out things like the shelving and the fridge. We also are going to find a way to hang the bikes because they take up an abnormal amount of space. Also, the ceilings are nice and high, so we’re trying to figure out if there’s a way to hang some stuff up there for storage.
The Solutions
We need some tool storage but I don’t know if we really need anything fancy. It seems like at least considering something like this (below) would be nice and may make me feel more manly. Like whenever I have to replace a battery in a kid’s toy I can make a big deal out of folding out my workbench and feel like a handy guy.
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I’m also worried that I would leave all my tools on the table instead of hanging them up in their right place. I think I may need a big box to throw them in. I know, I’m lazy, but it’s folly to think that I’m going to change.
This person’s garage is dreamy.
design and photo by simply organized
I feel like this is good inspo for storage. The only problem for us is that the space between the wall and that big staircase is pretty narrow so I don’t think we could hang bikes and pull the golf cart in…. a sentence I never imagined that I would ever write. Sorry, I know these are all champagne “problems” but hey, we’re writing what we’re actually going through up here.
But I really like how there’s two rows of storage happening, the shelf for bins and underneath for hanging things that get used often. These are some good broom and rake storage options that could work:
1. LETMY Broom Holder Wall Mounted | 2. Corner Double Tool Rack | 3. Koova Wall Mount Garden and Garage Tool Organizer | 4. Deluxe Tool Tower | 5. Goowin Broom Holder | 6. Stalwart Rolling Garden
We thought about getting a small outdoor shed to house things like rakes and such, but I think it makes more sense to keep everything contained to the garage. Plus it’s been impossible to find a shed that has gotten Emily’s approval.
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We got into mountain biking up here, and Charlie is finally up and running on a peddle bike, so we definitely will be using them a lot. Right now, I think mine is laying in a pile of leaves on one side of the house while Emily’s and Charlie’s are sprawled out around a tree on the other side. That can’t keep happening, our neighbors must think that we’ve been raptured mid-bike-ride. So we will try one of these. Have you guys used any that you recommend?
1. TORACK Bike Rack Garage | 2. 6-Bike Storage Rack 2.0 | 3. Elfa Utility Vertical Bike Hook | 4. Copenhagen Wall Mount Bike Rack | 5. Delta Cycle Leonardo Da Vinci Single Bike Storage| 6. Bike Wall Mount
And while we’ve found a way to clear out most of our bins, I’m sure we’ll accumulate more, so we’ll need a good vertical storage system. I’d love to say I could build one, but I’d also love to say that I can do a standing jump over a car or that I can run faster than a gazelle. I’m just not that handy y’all.
design and photo by simply organized | design and photo by modern builds
Here are some solutions we are considering…
1. Platinum Elfa Utility Basement Storage | 2. Bror | 3. Matias the Heavy Duty Storage System Ceiling Mounted Rack | 4. Shelf Steel Freestanding Storage Cabinet | 5. Chrome-Finished Tower Shelving | 6. LEXIMOUNTS WR24B Storage Rack
Lord knows we go through a lot of storage here in Emily Hendersonland, and we’ve used lots of types of bins. Here are my tips – they can’t be hard plastic because they break, they have to have a good seal, preferably not the clip handle because those break, they should have good grips for when you move them a hundred times, and they should be stackable.
1. Tough Storage Bin | 2. Brute Tote Storage Container | 3. Heavy Duty 54 Gal. Storage Bin
So that’s where we are with the garage so far. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s looking much better in there, plus we’ve kept it pretty clean since the organizing day. We’ll see how long that lasts. But at least for now, the garage is no longer a place to just dump stuff and go, it’s clean and organized and we can see the potential. Or at least I can see the potential, Emily may not be able to see much until spring is over. Stupid pollen.
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Agilenano - News: Hi guys, Brian here
I’m writing this post because we found out yesterday that Emily is allergic to pollen. Like, suuuuper allergic. Like, looking at her you’d think she’d watched “The Notebook” and the opening sequence from “Up” back to back. Her poor little lash-less eyes are so red and watery that she can barely see. Also she’s been so congested at night that she can’t sleep. So last night she took something to knock herself out, and she’s still out as I write this, which is 7:39 am on Friday. That’s crazy for Emily, she’s usually up at 5:30 writing posts for the blog. So now I’m up early writing for the blog. I’ll keep you posted on when she wakes up… Hopefully, she goes for a while, she needs it.
Let’s start with a video so you can get the full scale and get Emily right before the pollen fully attacked (just wait for the ad to play).
OK. I’m back. The garage. This has a special significance for me because there’s something innate in men to have a squared away garage. I think it’s because the garage is the one room in the house (or out of the house I guess) where function matters more than form. It’s kind of the only place where I can win some design battles. In a garage, you’re not trying to figure out which pouf would offset the muted tones of a chaise lounge, you’re trying to figure out how many rakes can we fit on that wall. And that’s my kind of design.
The problem is, I’m lacking motivation to do things right now, which I think is a symptom of the whole quarantine thing. After home-schooling the kids in the morning, I find myself acting like an old British man, mumbling incoherently and stumbling around the house in a daze until cocktail hour.
But Emily, pre-allergies, is ever-motivated and kept threatened to do the garage herself until I acquiesced. So off to the garage we went!
Our garage here at the Mountain House is pretty small and has not been organized in about a year. Plus it was the storage site for the reader event we threw and photoshoots we did last year, so there’s a lot that needs to be sorted and donated or driven back to LA.
Here’s Emily showing off the space before her face got attacked by pollen.
As you can see, we never spent a lot of time thinking about the organization of this space. Emily and I are both kind of “I’ll just put this here and deal with it later” people, which isn’t a good combination when it comes to garages. We’ve got a shelving unit up, but it’s not being used very well. And we’ve got lots of random stuff near the shelves, but we just didn’t make it to the final step of putting them on the shelves, which is hilarious. Plus we have a bunch of stuff we need to find new homes for (not in our home) like the rugs, and some chairs, and some lampshades. We have a LOT of random lampshades. Anyone else have that problem?
BTW, it’s 8:01 am, and still no Emily. It’s getting to that point where I might go check to see if she’s still breathing.
So after Emily got the old British drunk to focus on the garage, we figured out some specific things that we needed: storage for our tools and yard stuff, space for our bikes, an area that we can rotate for seasonal things like beach stuff in summer and sled stuff in winter, a redesign of the shelving, and of course space enough to park my 6 seat “Ferrari” golf cart, which I will still defend as one of the best craigslist finds any human has ever made.
I mean the best, right?? Ok moving along…
It should be noted that there originally wasn’t access to the garage from inside the house so we put in that little stairway (it has to be that big for code, but we could certainly reduce its footprint). We love the access and we use it all the time but it does mean that we will never be able to put an actual car in here. But honestly, it’s so small that we don’t know if we would have been able to fit our big cars anyway. So yes, we need to be able to put the Ferrari in there, but that’s about it.
Here are more pics of the whole original mess:
We have a lot of Christmas stuff in those bins, which takes up a lot of space. We need to find a new spot for it though because it’s silly that something we only use for two months is dictating so much space for the whole year.
First Round of Organization
After everything was removed and cleaned it was much easier to see what might be possible in there. We gave some stuff to some neighbors up here, we drove some stuff back to LA, we relocated some stuff, and we learned that we had a lot of broken things that had to go in the trash.
Emily just came out of the bedroom, it’s 8:11 am. I don’t think she’s slept in that late since college. She says she’s feeling better today.
So here are some decisions we still need to make:
We need shelving, but could certainly make it nicer than that. And while we love that staircase do we want to make it nicer than that? Paint the janky railing? Like I said, we could have made it just three steps down without the railing but not legally, so we put in this big guy. We aren’t terribly motivated to demo it out and likely will just work with it for now.
The big black fridge came out of the kitchen during the remodel, and we were using it for secondary food storage, until someone accidentally unplugged it before we left for a few months. When we came back and made the mistake of cracking the door open, we were slapped with the most gag-inducing putrid smell and discovered a moldy sludge that had covered all the surfaces. We closed it back up and there it sits like the arc of the covenant, waiting to melt someone else’s face off. We tried disinfecting it, but it may be a lost cause. We need to make a call on this one. Like how much do we REALLY need a garage fridge??
Emily doesn’t think we need a garage fridge, because apparently she’s ok with pulling out 12 pounds of food to access the thing she wants in the back of our kitchen fridge. She says we’re doing fine without it now, but I’m less optimistic. Maybe things will change in a bit, but right now we are doing huge grocery shops to lessen the frequency of shopping, which means that every time we open the fridge it’s like that cliché scene in every comedy movie where the guy opens the closet full of stuff and everything falls on top of him, capped by a late bowling ball to the head. That’s our fridge, but it’s a jar of bread and butter pickles that rolls out last.
I also think a garage fridge is a perfect pace for beverages, which take up a bunch of room. And our kids aren’t old enough yet to try to steal adult beverages out of the garage fridge, so we’re good right? I mean, once they turn 13, I’ll put a lock on it, like my friend Alan’s dad should have. But for now, we’re good. What do you guys think? Fridge or no fridge?
I got a big-brimmed hat at the hardware store and I’m now super into yard work. I bagged 17 contractor bags of oak leaves last week and still have more to do, so I obviously need some space for my tools.
We have this little nook that is a covered space for storage if need be (and another entrance into the garage), we may put the bikes in here if we can figure out how to get them in there and still have space to get into the garage from the side yard. It took hours for us to clean and it wasn’t pretty. It was full of so much extra tile, leaves, random paint cans, our friend’s kayaks we just inherited, and empty gross Pepsi bottles left over from the construction crew (from two years ago). We feel very accomplished that it looks like this now:
We actually found some unused space up in the attic that we stuffed all the Christmas and winter stuff in, which was super helpful. The attic entrance is across from the kids’ play area, and the other storage space we have is behind a hidden door that goes to the guts of the house.
What’s Now?
We still have to figure out things like the shelving and the fridge. We also are going to find a way to hang the bikes because they take up an abnormal amount of space. Also, the ceilings are nice and high, so we’re trying to figure out if there’s a way to hang some stuff up there for storage.
The Solutions
We need some tool storage but I don’t know if we really need anything fancy. It seems like at least considering something like this (below) would be nice and may make me feel more manly. Like whenever I have to replace a battery in a kid’s toy I can make a big deal out of folding out my workbench and feel like a handy guy.
image source
I’m also worried that I would leave all my tools on the table instead of hanging them up in their right place. I think I may need a big box to throw them in. I know, I’m lazy, but it’s folly to think that I’m going to change.
This person’s garage is dreamy.
design and photo by simply organized
I feel like this is good inspo for storage. The only problem for us is that the space between the wall and that big staircase is pretty narrow so I don’t think we could hang bikes and pull the golf cart in…. a sentence I never imagined that I would ever write. Sorry, I know these are all champagne “problems” but hey, we’re writing what we’re actually going through up here.
But I really like how there’s two rows of storage happening, the shelf for bins and underneath for hanging things that get used often. These are some good broom and rake storage options that could work:
1. LETMY Broom Holder Wall Mounted | 2. Corner Double Tool Rack | 3. Koova Wall Mount Garden and Garage Tool Organizer | 4. Deluxe Tool Tower | 5. Goowin Broom Holder | 6. Stalwart Rolling Garden
We thought about getting a small outdoor shed to house things like rakes and such, but I think it makes more sense to keep everything contained to the garage. Plus it’s been impossible to find a shed that has gotten Emily’s approval.
image source
We got into mountain biking up here, and Charlie is finally up and running on a peddle bike, so we definitely will be using them a lot. Right now, I think mine is laying in a pile of leaves on one side of the house while Emily’s and Charlie’s are sprawled out around a tree on the other side. That can’t keep happening, our neighbors must think that we’ve been raptured mid-bike-ride. So we will try one of these. Have you guys used any that you recommend?
1. TORACK Bike Rack Garage | 2. 6-Bike Storage Rack 2.0 | 3. Elfa Utility Vertical Bike Hook | 4. Copenhagen Wall Mount Bike Rack | 5. Delta Cycle Leonardo Da Vinci Single Bike Storage| 6. Bike Wall Mount
And while we’ve found a way to clear out most of our bins, I’m sure we’ll accumulate more, so we’ll need a good vertical storage system. I’d love to say I could build one, but I’d also love to say that I can do a standing jump over a car or that I can run faster than a gazelle. I’m just not that handy y’all.
design and photo by simply organized | design and photo by modern builds
Here are some solutions we are considering…
1. Platinum Elfa Utility Basement Storage | 2. Bror | 3. Matias the Heavy Duty Storage System Ceiling Mounted Rack | 4. Shelf Steel Freestanding Storage Cabinet | 5. Chrome-Finished Tower Shelving | 6. LEXIMOUNTS WR24B Storage Rack
Lord knows we go through a lot of storage here in Emily Hendersonland, and we’ve used lots of types of bins. Here are my tips – they can’t be hard plastic because they break, they have to have a good seal, preferably not the clip handle because those break, they should have good grips for when you move them a hundred times, and they should be stackable.
1. Tough Storage Bin | 2. Brute Tote Storage Container | 3. Heavy Duty 54 Gal. Storage Bin
So that’s where we are with the garage so far. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s looking much better in there, plus we’ve kept it pretty clean since the organizing day. We’ll see how long that lasts. But at least for now, the garage is no longer a place to just dump stuff and go, it’s clean and organized and we can see the potential. Or at least I can see the potential, Emily may not be able to see much until spring is over. Stupid pollen.
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Agilenano - News: Hi guys, Brian here
I’m writing this post because we found out yesterday that Emily is allergic to pollen. Like, suuuuper allergic. Like, looking at her you’d think she’d watched “The Notebook” and the opening sequence from “Up” back to back. Her poor little lash-less eyes are so red and watery that she can barely see. Also she’s been so congested at night that she can’t sleep. So last night she took something to knock herself out, and she’s still out as I write this, which is 7:39 am on Friday. That’s crazy for Emily, she’s usually up at 5:30 writing posts for the blog. So now I’m up early writing for the blog. I’ll keep you posted on when she wakes up… Hopefully, she goes for a while, she needs it.
Let’s start with a video so you can get the full scale and get Emily right before the pollen fully attacked (just wait for the ad to play).
OK. I’m back. The garage. This has a special significance for me because there’s something innate in men to have a squared away garage. I think it’s because the garage is the one room in the house (or out of the house I guess) where function matters more than form. It’s kind of the only place where I can win some design battles. In a garage, you’re not trying to figure out which pouf would offset the muted tones of a chaise lounge, you’re trying to figure out how many rakes can we fit on that wall. And that’s my kind of design.
The problem is, I’m lacking motivation to do things right now, which I think is a symptom of the whole quarantine thing. After home-schooling the kids in the morning, I find myself acting like an old British man, mumbling incoherently and stumbling around the house in a daze until cocktail hour.
But Emily, pre-allergies, is ever-motivated and kept threatened to do the garage herself until I acquiesced. So off to the garage we went!
Our garage here at the Mountain House is pretty small and has not been organized in about a year. Plus it was the storage site for the reader event we threw and photoshoots we did last year, so there’s a lot that needs to be sorted and donated or driven back to LA.
Here’s Emily showing off the space before her face got attacked by pollen.
As you can see, we never spent a lot of time thinking about the organization of this space. Emily and I are both kind of “I’ll just put this here and deal with it later” people, which isn’t a good combination when it comes to garages. We’ve got a shelving unit up, but it’s not being used very well. And we’ve got lots of random stuff near the shelves, but we just didn’t make it to the final step of putting them on the shelves, which is hilarious. Plus we have a bunch of stuff we need to find new homes for (not in our home) like the rugs, and some chairs, and some lampshades. We have a LOT of random lampshades. Anyone else have that problem?
BTW, it’s 8:01 am, and still no Emily. It’s getting to that point where I might go check to see if she’s still breathing.
So after Emily got the old British drunk to focus on the garage, we figured out some specific things that we needed: storage for our tools and yard stuff, space for our bikes, an area that we can rotate for seasonal things like beach stuff in summer and sled stuff in winter, a redesign of the shelving, and of course space enough to park my 6 seat “Ferrari” golf cart, which I will still defend as one of the best craigslist finds any human has ever made.
I mean the best, right?? Ok moving along…
It should be noted that there originally wasn’t access to the garage from inside the house so we put in that little stairway (it has to be that big for code, but we could certainly reduce its footprint). We love the access and we use it all the time but it does mean that we will never be able to put an actual car in here. But honestly, it’s so small that we don’t know if we would have been able to fit our big cars anyway. So yes, we need to be able to put the Ferrari in there, but that’s about it.
Here are more pics of the whole original mess:
We have a lot of Christmas stuff in those bins, which takes up a lot of space. We need to find a new spot for it though because it’s silly that something we only use for two months is dictating so much space for the whole year.
First Round of Organization
After everything was removed and cleaned it was much easier to see what might be possible in there. We gave some stuff to some neighbors up here, we drove some stuff back to LA, we relocated some stuff, and we learned that we had a lot of broken things that had to go in the trash.
Emily just came out of the bedroom, it’s 8:11 am. I don’t think she’s slept in that late since college. She says she’s feeling better today.
So here are some decisions we still need to make:
We need shelving, but could certainly make it nicer than that. And while we love that staircase do we want to make it nicer than that? Paint the janky railing? Like I said, we could have made it just three steps down without the railing but not legally, so we put in this big guy. We aren’t terribly motivated to demo it out and likely will just work with it for now.
The big black fridge came out of the kitchen during the remodel, and we were using it for secondary food storage, until someone accidentally unplugged it before we left for a few months. When we came back and made the mistake of cracking the door open, we were slapped with the most gag-inducing putrid smell and discovered a moldy sludge that had covered all the surfaces. We closed it back up and there it sits like the arc of the covenant, waiting to melt someone else’s face off. We tried disinfecting it, but it may be a lost cause. We need to make a call on this one. Like how much do we REALLY need a garage fridge??
Emily doesn’t think we need a garage fridge, because apparently she’s ok with pulling out 12 pounds of food to access the thing she wants in the back of our kitchen fridge. She says we’re doing fine without it now, but I’m less optimistic. Maybe things will change in a bit, but right now we are doing huge grocery shops to lessen the frequency of shopping, which means that every time we open the fridge it’s like that cliché scene in every comedy movie where the guy opens the closet full of stuff and everything falls on top of him, capped by a late bowling ball to the head. That’s our fridge, but it’s a jar of bread and butter pickles that rolls out last.
I also think a garage fridge is a perfect pace for beverages, which take up a bunch of room. And our kids aren’t old enough yet to try to steal adult beverages out of the garage fridge, so we’re good right? I mean, once they turn 13, I’ll put a lock on it, like my friend Alan’s dad should have. But for now, we’re good. What do you guys think? Fridge or no fridge?
I got a big-brimmed hat at the hardware store and I’m now super into yard work. I bagged 17 contractor bags of oak leaves last week and still have more to do, so I obviously need some space for my tools.
We have this little nook that is a covered space for storage if need be (and another entrance into the garage), we may put the bikes in here if we can figure out how to get them in there and still have space to get into the garage from the side yard. It took hours for us to clean and it wasn’t pretty. It was full of so much extra tile, leaves, random paint cans, our friend’s kayaks we just inherited, and empty gross Pepsi bottles left over from the construction crew (from two years ago). We feel very accomplished that it looks like this now:
We actually found some unused space up in the attic that we stuffed all the Christmas and winter stuff in, which was super helpful. The attic entrance is across from the kids’ play area, and the other storage space we have is behind a hidden door that goes to the guts of the house.
What’s Now?
We still have to figure out things like the shelving and the fridge. We also are going to find a way to hang the bikes because they take up an abnormal amount of space. Also, the ceilings are nice and high, so we’re trying to figure out if there’s a way to hang some stuff up there for storage.
The Solutions
We need some tool storage but I don’t know if we really need anything fancy. It seems like at least considering something like this (below) would be nice and may make me feel more manly. Like whenever I have to replace a battery in a kid’s toy I can make a big deal out of folding out my workbench and feel like a handy guy.
image source
I’m also worried that I would leave all my tools on the table instead of hanging them up in their right place. I think I may need a big box to throw them in. I know, I’m lazy, but it’s folly to think that I’m going to change.
This person’s garage is dreamy.
design and photo by simply organized
I feel like this is good inspo for storage. The only problem for us is that the space between the wall and that big staircase is pretty narrow so I don’t think we could hang bikes and pull the golf cart in…. a sentence I never imagined that I would ever write. Sorry, I know these are all champagne “problems” but hey, we’re writing what we’re actually going through up here.
But I really like how there’s two rows of storage happening, the shelf for bins and underneath for hanging things that get used often. These are some good broom and rake storage options that could work:
1. LETMY Broom Holder Wall Mounted | 2. Corner Double Tool Rack | 3. Koova Wall Mount Garden and Garage Tool Organizer | 4. Deluxe Tool Tower | 5. Goowin Broom Holder | 6. Stalwart Rolling Garden
We thought about getting a small outdoor shed to house things like rakes and such, but I think it makes more sense to keep everything contained to the garage. Plus it’s been impossible to find a shed that has gotten Emily’s approval.
image source
We got into mountain biking up here, and Charlie is finally up and running on a peddle bike, so we definitely will be using them a lot. Right now, I think mine is laying in a pile of leaves on one side of the house while Emily’s and Charlie’s are sprawled out around a tree on the other side. That can’t keep happening, our neighbors must think that we’ve been raptured mid-bike-ride. So we will try one of these. Have you guys used any that you recommend?
1. TORACK Bike Rack Garage | 2. 6-Bike Storage Rack 2.0 | 3. Elfa Utility Vertical Bike Hook | 4. Copenhagen Wall Mount Bike Rack | 5. Delta Cycle Leonardo Da Vinci Single Bike Storage| 6. Bike Wall Mount
And while we’ve found a way to clear out most of our bins, I’m sure we’ll accumulate more, so we’ll need a good vertical storage system. I’d love to say I could build one, but I’d also love to say that I can do a standing jump over a car or that I can run faster than a gazelle. I’m just not that handy y’all.
design and photo by simply organized | design and photo by modern builds
Here are some solutions we are considering…
1. Platinum Elfa Utility Basement Storage | 2. Bror | 3. Matias the Heavy Duty Storage System Ceiling Mounted Rack | 4. Shelf Steel Freestanding Storage Cabinet | 5. Chrome-Finished Tower Shelving | 6. LEXIMOUNTS WR24B Storage Rack
Lord knows we go through a lot of storage here in Emily Hendersonland, and we’ve used lots of types of bins. Here are my tips – they can’t be hard plastic because they break, they have to have a good seal, preferably not the clip handle because those break, they should have good grips for when you move them a hundred times, and they should be stackable.
1. Tough Storage Bin | 2. Brute Tote Storage Container | 3. Heavy Duty 54 Gal. Storage Bin
So that’s where we are with the garage so far. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s looking much better in there, plus we’ve kept it pretty clean since the organizing day. We’ll see how long that lasts. But at least for now, the garage is no longer a place to just dump stuff and go, it’s clean and organized and we can see the potential. Or at least I can see the potential, Emily may not be able to see much until spring is over. Stupid pollen.
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Hi guys, Brian here. I’m writing this post because we found out yesterday that Emily is allergic to pollen. Like, suuuuper allergic. Like, looking at her you’d think she’d watched “The Notebook” and the opening sequence from “Up” back to back. Her poor little lash-less eyes are so red and watery that she can barely see. Also she’s been so congested at night that she can’t sleep. So last night she took something to knock herself out, and she’s still out as I write this, which is 7:39 am on Friday. That’s crazy for Emily, she’s usually up at 5:30 writing posts for the blog. So now I’m up early writing for the blog. I’ll keep you posted on when she wakes up… Hopefully, she goes for a while, she needs it.
Let’s start with a video so you can get the full scale and get Emily right before the pollen fully attacked (just wait for the ad to play).
OK. I’m back. The garage. This has a special significance for me because there’s something innate in men to have a squared away garage. I think it’s because the garage is the one room in the house (or out of the house I guess) where function matters more than form. It’s kind of the only place where I can win some design battles. In a garage, you’re not trying to figure out which pouf would offset the muted tones of a chaise lounge, you’re trying to figure out how many rakes can we fit on that wall. And that’s my kind of design.
The problem is, I’m lacking motivation to do things right now, which I think is a symptom of the whole quarantine thing. After home-schooling the kids in the morning, I find myself acting like an old British man, mumbling incoherently and stumbling around the house in a daze until cocktail hour.
But Emily, pre-allergies, is ever-motivated and kept threatened to do the garage herself until I acquiesced. So off to the garage we went!
Our garage here at the Mountain House is pretty small and has not been organized in about a year. Plus it was the storage site for the reader event we threw and photoshoots we did last year, so there’s a lot that needs to be sorted and donated or driven back to LA.
Here’s Emily showing off the space before her face got attacked by pollen.
As you can see, we never spent a lot of time thinking about the organization of this space. Emily and I are both kind of “I’ll just put this here and deal with it later” people, which isn’t a good combination when it comes to garages. We’ve got a shelving unit up, but it’s not being used very well. And we’ve got lots of random stuff near the shelves, but we just didn’t make it to the final step of putting them on the shelves, which is hilarious. Plus we have a bunch of stuff we need to find new homes for (not in our home) like the rugs, and some chairs, and some lampshades. We have a LOT of random lampshades. Anyone else have that problem?
BTW, it’s 8:01 am, and still no Emily. It’s getting to that point where I might go check to see if she’s still breathing.
So after Emily got the old British drunk to focus on the garage, we figured out some specific things that we needed: storage for our tools and yard stuff, space for our bikes, an area that we can rotate for seasonal things like beach stuff in summer and sled stuff in winter, a redesign of the shelving, and of course space enough to park my 6 seat “Ferrari” golf cart, which I will still defend as one of the best craigslist finds any human has ever made.
I mean the best, right?? Ok moving along…
It should be noted that there originally wasn’t access to the garage from inside the house so we put in that little stairway (it has to be that big for code, but we could certainly reduce its footprint). We love the access and we use it all the time but it does mean that we will never be able to put an actual car in here. But honestly, it’s so small that we don’t know if we would have been able to fit our big cars anyway. So yes, we need to be able to put the Ferrari in there, but that’s about it.
Here are more pics of the whole original mess:
We have a lot of Christmas stuff in those bins, which takes up a lot of space. We need to find a new spot for it though because it’s silly that something we only use for two months is dictating so much space for the whole year.
First Round of Organization
After everything was removed and cleaned it was much easier to see what might be possible in there. We gave some stuff to some neighbors up here, we drove some stuff back to LA, we relocated some stuff, and we learned that we had a lot of broken things that had to go in the trash.
Emily just came out of the bedroom, it’s 8:11 am. I don’t think she’s slept in that late since college. She says she’s feeling better today.
So here are some decisions we still need to make:
We need shelving, but could certainly make it nicer than that. And while we love that staircase do we want to make it nicer than that? Paint the janky railing? Like I said, we could have made it just three steps down without the railing but not legally, so we put in this big guy. We aren’t terribly motivated to demo it out and likely will just work with it for now.
The big black fridge came out of the kitchen during the remodel, and we were using it for secondary food storage, until someone accidentally unplugged it before we left for a few months. When we came back and made the mistake of cracking the door open, we were slapped with the most gag-inducing putrid smell and discovered a moldy sludge that had covered all the surfaces. We closed it back up and there it sits like the arc of the covenant, waiting to melt someone else’s face off. We tried disinfecting it, but it may be a lost cause. We need to make a call on this one. Like how much do we REALLY need a garage fridge??
Emily doesn’t think we need a garage fridge, because apparently she’s ok with pulling out 12 pounds of food to access the thing she wants in the back of our kitchen fridge. She says we’re doing fine without it now, but I’m less optimistic. Maybe things will change in a bit, but right now we are doing huge grocery shops to lessen the frequency of shopping, which means that every time we open the fridge it’s like that cliché scene in every comedy movie where the guy opens the closet full of stuff and everything falls on top of him, capped by a late bowling ball to the head. That’s our fridge, but it’s a jar of bread and butter pickles that rolls out last.
I also think a garage fridge is a perfect pace for beverages, which take up a bunch of room. And our kids aren’t old enough yet to try to steal adult beverages out of the garage fridge, so we’re good right? I mean, once they turn 13, I’ll put a lock on it, like my friend Alan’s dad should have. But for now, we’re good. What do you guys think? Fridge or no fridge?
I got a big-brimmed hat at the hardware store and I’m now super into yard work. I bagged 17 contractor bags of oak leaves last week and still have more to do, so I obviously need some space for my tools.
We have this little nook that is a covered space for storage if need be (and another entrance into the garage), we may put the bikes in here if we can figure out how to get them in there and still have space to get into the garage from the side yard. It took hours for us to clean and it wasn’t pretty. It was full of so much extra tile, leaves, random paint cans, our friend’s kayaks we just inherited, and empty gross Pepsi bottles left over from the construction crew (from two years ago). We feel very accomplished that it looks like this now:
We actually found some unused space up in the attic that we stuffed all the Christmas and winter stuff in, which was super helpful. The attic entrance is across from the kids’ play area, and the other storage space we have is behind a hidden door that goes to the guts of the house.
What’s Now?
We still have to figure out things like the shelving and the fridge. We also are going to find a way to hang the bikes because they take up an abnormal amount of space. Also, the ceilings are nice and high, so we’re trying to figure out if there’s a way to hang some stuff up there for storage.
The Solutions
We need some tool storage but I don’t know if we really need anything fancy. It seems like at least considering something like this (below) would be nice and may make me feel more manly. Like whenever I have to replace a battery in a kid’s toy I can make a big deal out of folding out my workbench and feel like a handy guy.
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I’m also worried that I would leave all my tools on the table instead of hanging them up in their right place. I think I may need a big box to throw them in. I know, I’m lazy, but it’s folly to think that I’m going to change.
This person’s garage is dreamy.
design and photo by simply organized
I feel like this is good inspo for storage. The only problem for us is that the space between the wall and that big staircase is pretty narrow so I don’t think we could hang bikes and pull the golf cart in…. a sentence I never imagined that I would ever write. Sorry, I know these are all champagne “problems” but hey, we’re writing what we’re actually going through up here.
But I really like how there’s two rows of storage happening, the shelf for bins and underneath for hanging things that get used often. These are some good broom and rake storage options that could work:
1. LETMY Broom Holder Wall Mounted | 2. Corner Double Tool Rack | 3. Koova Wall Mount Garden and Garage Tool Organizer | 4. Deluxe Tool Tower | 5. Goowin Broom Holder | 6. Stalwart Rolling Garden
We thought about getting a small outdoor shed to house things like rakes and such, but I think it makes more sense to keep everything contained to the garage. Plus it’s been impossible to find a shed that has gotten Emily’s approval.
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We got into mountain biking up here, and Charlie is finally up and running on a peddle bike, so we definitely will be using them a lot. Right now, I think mine is laying in a pile of leaves on one side of the house while Emily’s and Charlie’s are sprawled out around a tree on the other side. That can’t keep happening, our neighbors must think that we’ve been raptured mid-bike-ride. So we will try one of these. Have you guys used any that you recommend?
1. TORACK Bike Rack Garage | 2. 6-Bike Storage Rack 2.0 | 3. Elfa Utility Vertical Bike Hook | 4. Copenhagen Wall Mount Bike Rack | 5. Delta Cycle Leonardo Da Vinci Single Bike Storage| 6. Bike Wall Mount
And while we’ve found a way to clear out most of our bins, I’m sure we’ll accumulate more, so we’ll need a good vertical storage system. I’d love to say I could build one, but I’d also love to say that I can do a standing jump over a car or that I can run faster than a gazelle. I’m just not that handy y’all.
design and photo by simply organized | design and photo by modern builds
Here are some solutions we are considering…
1. Platinum Elfa Utility Basement Storage | 2. Bror | 3. Matias the Heavy Duty Storage System Ceiling Mounted Rack | 4. Shelf Steel Freestanding Storage Cabinet | 5. Chrome-Finished Tower Shelving | 6. LEXIMOUNTS WR24B Storage Rack
Lord knows we go through a lot of storage here in Emily Hendersonland, and we’ve used lots of types of bins. Here are my tips – they can’t be hard plastic because they break, they have to have a good seal, preferably not the clip handle because those break, they should have good grips for when you move them a hundred times, and they should be stackable.
1. Tough Storage Bin | 2. Brute Tote Storage Container | 3. Heavy Duty 54 Gal. Storage Bin
So that’s where we are with the garage so far. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s looking much better in there, plus we’ve kept it pretty clean since the organizing day. We’ll see how long that lasts. But at least for now, the garage is no longer a place to just dump stuff and go, it’s clean and organized and we can see the potential. Or at least I can see the potential, Emily may not be able to see much until spring is over. Stupid pollen.
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Hi guys, Brian here. I’m writing this post because we found out yesterday that Emily is allergic to pollen. Like, suuuuper allergic. Like, looking at her you’d think she’d watched “The Notebook” and the opening sequence from “Up” back to back. Her poor little lash-less eyes are so red and watery that she can barely see. Also she’s been so congested at night that she can’t sleep. So last night she took something to knock herself out, and she’s still out as I write this, which is 7:39 am on Friday. That’s crazy for Emily, she’s usually up at 5:30 writing posts for the blog. So now I’m up early writing for the blog. I’ll keep you posted on when she wakes up… Hopefully, she goes for a while, she needs it.
Let’s start with a video so you can get the full scale and get Emily right before the pollen fully attacked (just wait for the ad to play).
OK. I’m back. The garage. This has a special significance for me because there’s something innate in men to have a squared away garage. I think it’s because the garage is the one room in the house (or out of the house I guess) where function matters more than form. It’s kind of the only place where I can win some design battles. In a garage, you’re not trying to figure out which pouf would offset the muted tones of a chaise lounge, you’re trying to figure out how many rakes can we fit on that wall. And that’s my kind of design.
The problem is, I’m lacking motivation to do things right now, which I think is a symptom of the whole quarantine thing. After home-schooling the kids in the morning, I find myself acting like an old British man, mumbling incoherently and stumbling around the house in a daze until cocktail hour.
But Emily, pre-allergies, is ever-motivated and kept threatened to do the garage herself until I acquiesced. So off to the garage we went!
Our garage here at the Mountain House is pretty small and has not been organized in about a year. Plus it was the storage site for the reader event we threw and photoshoots we did last year, so there’s a lot that needs to be sorted and donated or driven back to LA.
Here’s Emily showing off the space before her face got attacked by pollen.
As you can see, we never spent a lot of time thinking about the organization of this space. Emily and I are both kind of “I’ll just put this here and deal with it later” people, which isn’t a good combination when it comes to garages. We’ve got a shelving unit up, but it’s not being used very well. And we’ve got lots of random stuff near the shelves, but we just didn’t make it to the final step of putting them on the shelves, which is hilarious. Plus we have a bunch of stuff we need to find new homes for (not in our home) like the rugs, and some chairs, and some lampshades. We have a LOT of random lampshades. Anyone else have that problem?
BTW, it’s 8:01 am, and still no Emily. It’s getting to that point where I might go check to see if she’s still breathing.
So after Emily got the old British drunk to focus on the garage, we figured out some specific things that we needed: storage for our tools and yard stuff, space for our bikes, an area that we can rotate for seasonal things like beach stuff in summer and sled stuff in winter, a redesign of the shelving, and of course space enough to park my 6 seat “Ferrari” golf cart, which I will still defend as one of the best craigslist finds any human has ever made.
I mean the best, right?? Ok moving along…
It should be noted that there originally wasn’t access to the garage from inside the house so we put in that little stairway (it has to be that big for code, but we could certainly reduce its footprint). We love the access and we use it all the time but it does mean that we will never be able to put an actual car in here. But honestly, it’s so small that we don’t know if we would have been able to fit our big cars anyway. So yes, we need to be able to put the Ferrari in there, but that’s about it.
Here are more pics of the whole original mess:
We have a lot of Christmas stuff in those bins, which takes up a lot of space. We need to find a new spot for it though because it’s silly that something we only use for two months is dictating so much space for the whole year.
First Round of Organization
After everything was removed and cleaned it was much easier to see what might be possible in there. We gave some stuff to some neighbors up here, we drove some stuff back to LA, we relocated some stuff, and we learned that we had a lot of broken things that had to go in the trash.
Emily just came out of the bedroom, it’s 8:11 am. I don’t think she’s slept in that late since college. She says she’s feeling better today.
So here are some decisions we still need to make:
We need shelving, but could certainly make it nicer than that. And while we love that staircase do we want to make it nicer than that? Paint the janky railing? Like I said, we could have made it just three steps down without the railing but not legally, so we put in this big guy. We aren’t terribly motivated to demo it out and likely will just work with it for now.
The big black fridge came out of the kitchen during the remodel, and we were using it for secondary food storage, until someone accidentally unplugged it before we left for a few months. When we came back and made the mistake of cracking the door open, we were slapped with the most gag-inducing putrid smell and discovered a moldy sludge that had covered all the surfaces. We closed it back up and there it sits like the arc of the covenant, waiting to melt someone else’s face off. We tried disinfecting it, but it may be a lost cause. We need to make a call on this one. Like how much do we REALLY need a garage fridge??
Emily doesn’t think we need a garage fridge, because apparently she’s ok with pulling out 12 pounds of food to access the thing she wants in the back of our kitchen fridge. She says we’re doing fine without it now, but I’m less optimistic. Maybe things will change in a bit, but right now we are doing huge grocery shops to lessen the frequency of shopping, which means that every time we open the fridge it’s like that cliché scene in every comedy movie where the guy opens the closet full of stuff and everything falls on top of him, capped by a late bowling ball to the head. That’s our fridge, but it’s a jar of bread and butter pickles that rolls out last.
I also think a garage fridge is a perfect pace for beverages, which take up a bunch of room. And our kids aren’t old enough yet to try to steal adult beverages out of the garage fridge, so we’re good right? I mean, once they turn 13, I’ll put a lock on it, like my friend Alan’s dad should have. But for now, we’re good. What do you guys think? Fridge or no fridge?
I got a big-brimmed hat at the hardware store and I’m now super into yard work. I bagged 17 contractor bags of oak leaves last week and still have more to do, so I obviously need some space for my tools.
We have this little nook that is a covered space for storage if need be (and another entrance into the garage), we may put the bikes in here if we can figure out how to get them in there and still have space to get into the garage from the side yard. It took hours for us to clean and it wasn’t pretty. It was full of so much extra tile, leaves, random paint cans, our friend’s kayaks we just inherited, and empty gross Pepsi bottles left over from the construction crew (from two years ago). We feel very accomplished that it looks like this now:
We actually found some unused space up in the attic that we stuffed all the Christmas and winter stuff in, which was super helpful. The attic entrance is across from the kids’ play area, and the other storage space we have is behind a hidden door that goes to the guts of the house.
What’s Now?
We still have to figure out things like the shelving and the fridge. We also are going to find a way to hang the bikes because they take up an abnormal amount of space. Also, the ceilings are nice and high, so we’re trying to figure out if there’s a way to hang some stuff up there for storage.
The Solutions
We need some tool storage but I don’t know if we really need anything fancy. It seems like at least considering something like this (below) would be nice and may make me feel more manly. Like whenever I have to replace a battery in a kid’s toy I can make a big deal out of folding out my workbench and feel like a handy guy.
image source
I’m also worried that I would leave all my tools on the table instead of hanging them up in their right place. I think I may need a big box to throw them in. I know, I’m lazy, but it’s folly to think that I’m going to change.
This person’s garage is dreamy.
design and photo by simply organized
I feel like this is good inspo for storage. The only problem for us is that the space between the wall and that big staircase is pretty narrow so I don’t think we could hang bikes and pull the golf cart in…. a sentence I never imagined that I would ever write. Sorry, I know these are all champagne “problems” but hey, we’re writing what we’re actually going through up here.
But I really like how there’s two rows of storage happening, the shelf for bins and underneath for hanging things that get used often. These are some good broom and rake storage options that could work:
1. LETMY Broom Holder Wall Mounted | 2. Corner Double Tool Rack | 3. Koova Wall Mount Garden and Garage Tool Organizer | 4. Deluxe Tool Tower | 5. Goowin Broom Holder | 6. Stalwart Rolling Garden
We thought about getting a small outdoor shed to house things like rakes and such, but I think it makes more sense to keep everything contained to the garage. Plus it’s been impossible to find a shed that has gotten Emily’s approval.
image source
We got into mountain biking up here, and Charlie is finally up and running on a peddle bike, so we definitely will be using them a lot. Right now, I think mine is laying in a pile of leaves on one side of the house while Emily’s and Charlie’s are sprawled out around a tree on the other side. That can’t keep happening, our neighbors must think that we’ve been raptured mid-bike-ride. So we will try one of these. Have you guys used any that you recommend?
1. TORACK Bike Rack Garage | 2. 6-Bike Storage Rack 2.0 | 3. Elfa Utility Vertical Bike Hook | 4. Copenhagen Wall Mount Bike Rack | 5. Delta Cycle Leonardo Da Vinci Single Bike Storage| 6. Bike Wall Mount
And while we’ve found a way to clear out most of our bins, I’m sure we’ll accumulate more, so we’ll need a good vertical storage system. I’d love to say I could build one, but I’d also love to say that I can do a standing jump over a car or that I can run faster than a gazelle. I’m just not that handy y’all.
design and photo by simply organized | design and photo by modern builds
Here are some solutions we are considering…
1. Platinum Elfa Utility Basement Storage | 2. Bror | 3. Matias the Heavy Duty Storage System Ceiling Mounted Rack | 4. Shelf Steel Freestanding Storage Cabinet | 5. Chrome-Finished Tower Shelving | 6. LEXIMOUNTS WR24B Storage Rack
Lord knows we go through a lot of storage here in Emily Hendersonland, and we’ve used lots of types of bins. Here are my tips – they can’t be hard plastic because they break, they have to have a good seal, preferably not the clip handle because those break, they should have good grips for when you move them a hundred times, and they should be stackable.
1. Tough Storage Bin | 2. Brute Tote Storage Container | 3. Heavy Duty 54 Gal. Storage Bin
So that’s where we are with the garage so far. We’ve got a long way to go, but it’s looking much better in there, plus we’ve kept it pretty clean since the organizing day. We’ll see how long that lasts. But at least for now, the garage is no longer a place to just dump stuff and go, it’s clean and organized and we can see the potential. Or at least I can see the potential, Emily may not be able to see much until spring is over. Stupid pollen.
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