Old House. Brown Dog

You guys, have I told you how much I love to organize stuff??? Well, it's a lot. Maybe as much as I love wine. Not as much as I love dogs, but close.  The cabin as you may remember is real tiny. 600ish square feet and two bedrooms. Not a ton of storage, so we needed to get clever. There is a closet in the kitchen that the water heater was living in, the water heater pretty much made the closet unusable, so we recently evicted it. Jose moved the heater to the crawl space and we added ClosetMade shelving to turn the space into our laundry and pantry. I am so happy with the change. I can buy so many more treasures to put on these shelves, and my snacks even have a home now.  we found this calendar under the heater that had the previous owner's weed growing and concert schedule all mapped out.  We opted to go with the ClosetMade shelving at the depot because it is really customizable and basically the easy button. We could have saved a lot of $$ if we had done regular shelves...

Well you guys, we made it through the entire renovation without any injuries (save for a few minor electrocutions) until beam day. Never fear, everyone is ok, but I did take one to the head and the scene looked like a horror movie. Luckily I am really hard headed and Jose said it would take more than a 4x4 to kill me, so all is well. this was after clean up, I will save you from the gory pics Over Labor Day weekend Jose, Fred and his dog buddy June and I made our way to the cabin where our new beams had been delivered and were waiting for us. I started staining them, then ran out of stain, so I made my way to town and impressed myself by managing to get the stain, a coffee, hit the grocery store, and a yard sale all in under an hour! Once I had more stain I finished the job and we let them dry. Once dry we installed beam one and beam two in a matter of minutes with no issue at all. Then came beam three. I am not a scientist, so I don't know exactly what went wrong here, but basical...