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Steph is an original Harry Potter fan. We have fun memories of staying up till midnight to purchase the original books. Good times!

With her love of all things Harry Potter, she wanted to share that with her niblings once each turned 10.

This past December was Andrew's turn when he turned 10. To celebrate and to introduce him to the Harry Potter series, Steph purchased the entire book collection for him for his birthday.

To make the gift even more special, she designed a book crate especially for him to store his books. 

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* We are brand ambassadors for Wall Control and they provided the product.

With almost any hobby, sport, or fitness activity, there is always stuff that is needed which then must be stored!

Steph has been utilizing Apple Fitness + for yoga and other exercise and has accumulated a storage tub full of essential gear. Up to now, she's stored that stuff in a storage tub in the living room.  It was not a pretty sight!

She came up with a clever idea to create a mobile storage unit utilizing two panels of Wall Control to store and to hide away her exercise gear. Take a look at how it all came together. 

The unofficial title for this post should be "no more metal wire shelving!"

Each one of these closet makeover started with the same wire shelving. We've lived with this type of closet shelving to know we really don't like it at all. You've probably come to the same conclusion if you have it in your closets as well.

For each of these closets, we removed the wire shelving and customized the space in a variety of ways to meet specific needs in our homes. 

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The MDP van has been great to haul furniture, boxes, full sheets of plywood, as well as our bikes and the greyhounds. What it lacks is a center console with cupholders. 

It's a small thing, but after spilling full cups of liquid including hot coffee and water, it was time to fix the cupholder situation!

This project is very unique to this vehicle, but it might spark your imagination as to how you can customize your own car or truck to make it function better for you.

Plus, this build features some really cool adjustable cupholders that you just may want to get for your own beverage transportation. 

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One thing you can count on during January are fitness resolutions and the pressing need to store all the things!

Well, this build shares both of those things:

1. We bought e-bikes to up our fitness game
2. We built a stand so we can transport those bikes, as well as store them in the garage when not in use.

​Read on to see how we built it!