The Room That Time Forgot

In addition to working on getting the garden beds ready & planting 6 whole pea plants, I spent a lot of time this weekend reorganizing the garage & cleaning up the last of the forgotten downstairs rooms, or as I like to call them, "rooms."

Before:

That picture is from December 2011. It looked more or less the same when I stepped in there on Saturday morning. We can't actually use the space because of the giant hole in the floor (under that pile of junk), so it wasn't a priority to do anything with it. It's been a year since we moved in, however -- time to start cleaning up & making the place look decent!

There wasn't too much interesting in there -- mostly just trash, but a there were few neat items. There was an old heavy iron workbench vise, and a roll of industrial carpet that is surprisingly still good (the magic of plastic!). I plan to put the carpet in the small room in the garage so that Zoey can get some traction when we play fetch in there. There was also this envelope stuffed with old savings stamps, a pencil, a Disneyland Tiki Garden swizzle stick, and a 1943 five centamos coin from Mexico:

After I got the room cleaned up & the broken window covered, I put my beer brewing stuff in the usable half, some lumber & other assorted materials in the back for storage, & put these curtains up in between:

No longer looks like the place a serial killer would bury the bodies! Success!