Matt had a stated goal that six months after our contractor finished (around Jan 15) that he wanted to have all of the follow-up projects done. It’s a seemingly easy task, but really a lot of work!! The #1 thing we needed to do was get our storage situation taken care of – our garage and Matt’s shop were (are) over run with the extra stuff from the basement. We got rid of a TON of it, but sporting goods, baby stuff (I’ve even gotten rid of a lot of that), mementos and seasonal stuff remains.
We decided to install hanging shelves in our garage. Our garage has like 12′ ceilings or taller, so Matt found these AWESOME shelving systems that you mount on the ceiling and then winch up/down using a crank or a drill attached to a crank.
Installing them wasn’t simple and I wasn’t able to help since I am 5’0″ and terrible on ladders besides, but the effect is awesome and we’ve gotten so much storage from them. 
This summer we will have been married for (yikes!) 8 years. I can hardly believe it myself. That means that a LOT of our household goods are at least 8 if not 10 years old. Our sheets in particular are really starting to show their age. So I decided to trade in a couple of sets of sheets that have seen better days for one brand new set of sheets. They’re 325 thread count organic cotton and I got them at Target. I kinda love them.
I suppose this isn’t technically a project, but I get to show them off and that’s good enough for me!
We also have two sets of everyday dishes we got when we were married. One is doing quite well (stoneware from Pottery Barn), but the porcelain from Crate & Barrel is down by about 1/3 and quite a few of the remaining pieces have chips. I’ll probably put that on Craigslist eventually and get something new. My mom got these (or something pretty similar) recently and I’m halfway tempted to copy. What? She’s got good taste.
Wow happy eight years to you! Just did eight in November. You put it that way I have a lot of older things too.