Barrel of Monkey's

We 'officially' finished one of our multi-stage projects I was mentioning a while back!!!  Our climbing wall!!  Okay, so I want to finish off the triangle and back side of the wall but it is officially functional and that's all that matters to the hubs.  I'll take you through our process (there is not a picture for every step, but enough you can fill in the missing pics):

This is a picture from the home listing but gives you an idea of what the room use to look like.  One big, long room.  This pic is taken from approximately the middle and there's a bed on the other side.

Step 1:  Tear out carpet from storage room and ceiling boards.  Someone was not so careful tearing out either even though they were given the awesome suggestion to score the ceiling to make more straight lines; so eventually I will be doing some repair work.  

Then we got some helpers, my sis and bil and 2 of big J's friends, to help plan out and put up the climbing walls!!  Thank you, Thank you!!!!

Framing and putting up of overhanging wall

Here's where I came in.  We did some research and lots of websites said they used concrete paint that worked on wood.  So I found some really great, so far I think, paint (Sure Step concrete paint) at Home Depot.com that gives a textured feel to the wall.  I first filled in many of the smaller cracks with caulk and then put on two coats and we let it cure for about 2 weeks before putting holds on.  This is so the holds don't stick to the paint.  It was a long time for everyone to wait, but the finished product is so fun!......DRUMROLL!............

Barrel of Monkey's

So when winter hits we have an indoor playground.  AND, our storage area is more confined!  Yay!!  So, come on over and play!!!

Also, a shout out to big J sister and brother in law for giving us the boards and many of the holds you see here from their garage they renovated!  THANK YOU!!!!!  You made the project SO much easier!!!!