The Garage Makeover Gift
We downsized in 2015-left our large home/large yard and moved to a smaller home/much smaller yard. We had some items we were not ready to part with quite yet but had no room for them in our new house. These items landed in our two car garage, their fate to be determined “soon”. Three and a half years passed with yearly promises to clean out the garage. In the late Spring of 2019, our house was being painted by Auric Solutions. Jacob shared pictures with me of a garage he had just organized for a client. Wow-what inspiration!! He encouragingly told me that my garage could look like that also. My husband’s 60th birthday was in approximately 6 weeks and never, in our 37 years of marriage, had I ever been able to really surprise him. For 3 1/2 years he had been wanting to organize and park in our new garage. I knew that this would be an amazing and most unexpected surprise for him. Jacob said “I can help make that happen if you’re interested “.
I began the process of going through stuff in a discreet manner so that my husband would not suspect anything. Jacob was a mastermind at figuring out what storage materials were needed to organize the items that would continue to live in the garage. The timing was perfect! My husband and I were leaving for vacation and Jacob agreed to perform his magic while we were gone (with assistance from my son who lives in town).
The night we returned home from our trip, we drove past our garage. Both garage doors were open and the lights on. My husband was TOTALLY SHOCKED. He was confused at first, thinking it was not even the correct garage! He just kept repeating himself, saying “What?! How did this happen? This is crazy!! This is amazing!! Wow!!!! And he had a very big smile on his face as he walked around and examined the most beautiful garage we’ve ever had!!! For the next few days he would say “I have to go back to the garage just to make sure it wasn’t a dream!”
Thank you, Jacob, for an amazing job and for such excellent planning and execution of the surprise!!!!
Your inspiration, careful and thoughtful planning and professional manner are much appreciated and very rare in today’s world!!
Lynne O.
Summer – 2019