the "Stud"mans: Garage Redo

As a kid, growing up in California, we always had carpet in our garage. Our garage wasn't "carpeted", we just had old carpet laid down to cover the entire garage floor so we could use our garage as a living/play space, and so we wouldn't have to walk on the concrete. My mom still has carpet in her garage (though now she has indoor/outdoor carpet in her garage), and Mike liked the idea so much that he decided he wanted to do it with our garage (SCORE! I always loved having the garage as a play space). Our house is pretty small, so we decided it would be nice to have another small space for our kids to play, especially since we only use our garage for storage, as it is WAY too small to park a car in there. His parents were getting new carpet a few weeks ago, so Mike asked them if we could have a big chunk of their old carpet to put in our garage, and they graciously obliged, even giving up an extra piece of their new carpet to put in there, too. Soooo, this weekend Mike totally cleaned out the garage (brought all the stuff inside, swept, sprayed down, and ajaxed the concrete), and got to work carpeting. It was a LOT of work, and he just might have destroyed his back doing it, but he got it done really fast and it looks AWESOME! And the kids ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! Tomorrow, we'll finish putting all the stuff back in the garage, but it doesn't look like our storage stuff will take up TOO much space, so the kids should still have a good size area to play in. Plus, now all of their toys are out in the garage, so the inside of my house will stay that much cleaner (BONUS!!). It's definitely a magically thing.