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| Cleaning day! |
We decided to clean out the garage today. We pulled out EVERYTHING but the heirloom chest freezer (seriously, it's an heirloom, it was passed down from my husband's grandparents to his parents to us when we got married! We think it's from the 1950s.) As we stacked up the stuff in the yard, sorted it, and moved it back in to the garage I realized two things: 1) we will never be the kind of people who park a car in the garage. It is a storage space. And 2) that garage is just shy of 300 square feet, so it's kind of like having 300 extra square feet in the house.
That means we have about 1150 square feet of covered and locked space, which isn't all that small. We don't do any living in the garage, but it holds things like extra food, suitcases, holiday decorations, extra clothes and toys, tools, and some extra furniture. Because we have all that room to store STUFF, the house doesn't have as much in it, and we don't have to be quite as minimal with our things.
We also have a nice-sized shed next to the garage, where we store garden supplies and bikes. That's probably another 50 square feet of storage space.
All told, we have about 350 square feet of storage space, and an 850 square foot house (for my metric friends, that's about 32.5 m of storage and 79 m of house.) We have storage space equaling almost half of our living space. We also have a large lot (for the city) that we live on, much bigger than the footprint of the house.
We may be close together, but we still have a lot of room to roam and to put stuff.
