Courtyard Overhaul Part 1

Hubs and I have always planned to transform our mini courtyard into an outdoor chill out~herb garden area. Years pass and the only thing we ever did was put out some plants. Good progress! {not really because the plants died} So one day I decided to just get up and do it! Told hubs, one weekend we are going to Ikea and getting an outdoor shelving unit I've been looking at to put our herb garden. I wanted to start small and work our way up from there, so imagine my surprise when hubs started grabbing some outdoor furniture and added to the pile! So we got the LACKO shelving unit and 3 ARHOLMA corner section seats along with the seat cushion, of course.

Now, what I'm going to reveal next is possibly the one thing that I would never EVER say out loud. Our car {sigh} Our car is small, old and just...old. Still gets us from point A to point B, so we are just gritting our teeth for now till we get a new car. Hopefully. Anyways, small car + 4 massive boxes + 3 seat cushions = our car looking like an overstuffed taco with an extra Mrs. Williamson stuffed in there somewhere.

|| my feet ||

Took us an hour playing Tetris but we finally got it all in! Now all we have to do is drive carefully and pray that the police won't pull us over. The drive home takes about 20 mins, which at this point you might say, it's not that far. You're right. It's not. But it is far when you get car sick easily and can't move around much because you're stuck in a tiny itsy bitsy space and can't lie down and you have the edges of the boxes right at your head! Yup, it was bad.

~ Moving on. Only because talking about that experience is making me feel nausea now {even though I'm comfortably in bed} ~

So we got home and didn't waste a second in putting our new furniture together. Good thing hubs and I love DIY so it was no trouble for us to set it up. I would have liked to post a before and after picture but I forgot to take the before picture before setting up the furniture. Guess I was just too excited! So here is the end result ~

One day. Back to reality.

It's small but it's the perfect size for now. We had bought that bench and panel earlier from Ikea for the purpose of storing our fishing gears.

A high five, a big satisfaction sigh and a nice glass of vino. We finally took that small big step. Next, the herb garden!

xoxo