The Wood.

A couple of weeks before Ben and I bought our house, Ben wanted to look for hardwood to make butcher block counter top. He had been searching on craigslist off and on for a couple of weeks. He emailed a guy that was selling sugar maple hardwood that was taken out of a school's gym floor up in Denver. Ben was pretty interested, so we went up to Denver and checked it out. We only needed about 200-300 square feet. When we got up there, we really liked what we saw, and it was at a very fair price. So we bought 1,500 square feet, enough to do our main level. We scheduled a time for them to drop off our wood, paid and away we went to get a storage unit.

When the time came for the men to drop off our wood, Ben went to help them move it. 3 hours later he came back and told me that we now had 3,000 square feet in the unit. The guy that was supposed to buy the other 1,500 square feet, didn't, and the owner didn't want to keep it, so he gave it to us for free. Score!... or so we thought.

You see, this wood still had all it's nails attached, and they would have to be removed manually before we could even think about using it. We had a couple of awesome friends help us move about a third of it into our garage. And once we had de-nailed and moved all of it into our basement, we then paid a couple of young men from our ward to move the rest of it. Here's what our garage looked like once they were finished moving it.

This is one side of our 2 car garage

And this is the other side.

As you can tell our garage was out of commission. We worked almost every evening after work for about 4 weeks. 

Bless you Progress!

Across a month we spent about 60 hours pulling nails. But we finally finished!

Ahh, the sweet taste of success.. and non-alcoholic celebratory drinks!