HGTV worthy!

At this point you guys would probably be really surprised if I said that my parents came to visit and something conventional happened, like showing them around or even a normal hike. So far during their visits, we have helped plant an orchard; built a garage partition, built all of the beds in my off campus house and now I have the next visit. This visit was different in a special way – we had a deadline. School was starting in two days flat, and my room had absolutely no shelving, nor did it have room for an armoire, so we did the next best thing – built some custom shelves.

no storage - uh oh!

casual chill time in the bathroom doing some finishing touches

yep - even my friends got handy!

some awkward wood stove handling

We hit the hardware store, then the shelving, then the hardware store again and repeated a few times over, with the help of friends. I felt like I was a part of some home design show when at 10:30pm we were all still working, drilling away. By lunch time on the second day, we were damn near complete, and after one last push, the room was complete, from start to finish it was another whirlwind visit, but I swear the next one will at least include a hike!

look!

so much storage! 

hoorah!