Organizing.. or attempting to

We've definitely been beginning to recognize the challenges of working in a 200 sq ft garage. There's another similarly sized one adjacent, but the two areas are separated by a concrete wall with only a standard sized door opening. The tool chest had been in the other side, which has a workbench. That wasn't working.

Today we went out and did some more shopping, some of the usual; Groceries, oil & filter for Tamra's car, but also a new lower tool cabinet for this project. We chased down one remaining home depot 5 drawer at a good price (cheaper than their new and improved (?!) 4 drawer! After a quick assembly, it was time to try and find homes for everything. It's still a bit of a mess, but a vast improvement to have everything in the same space as we're working.

This is what we're working with for space on either side, and the new tool cabinet

Some drawers are pretty tidy.

And others are a bit less so.

But, everything has a place. For now. It should help a lot with getting rid of all the wasted time running from area to area chasing after each tool.


While I was shuffling tools, Tamra set in on the basement. Turns out, body panels take up a lot of space, when they're off of the car! She made some pretty significant improvements in how we were storing stuff, and got a handful of pictures for listing items for sale.

The panoramic makes it actually look like we're doing better than we are with storage space. We definitely need to get busy selling off the big pieces and a few spare sets of tires we have from the Mazda3 & Miata, so that we'll have room for all the remaining parts of the WRX.

Tomorrow should be a more productive day when it comes to actually removing parts from the car.