Good Day Fellow GJ Members,
As I sit here at work, bored, it feels like a good time to show up off my garage. My wife and purchased our first home together back in 2014, pretty much your typically Florida 4 bedroom/2 bath ranch-style home with an attached 2 car garage. As most homes, if not all homes in Florida, we don’t have basements therefore the garage become a mix of storage, work area, maybe a car, etc.
After moving into the house, we work primarily on the interior prior to me fixing the garage. We redid all the flooring which was tile throughout, 5 ¼ inch baseboards, crown molding, painted every square inch of the house, pretty much made it our own. Thankfully the bathrooms were updated in the past and the kitchen, though dated, is still in great shape (hopefully we tackle the kitchen next year). As with life, our new family got in the way. We welcomed our first child in August 2014 and have another due any week now; therefore the garage project was pushed aside. I did start working on it a couple months ago at a slow pace when time permitted.
Ok, so enough about me and the house…on to the garage! The garage is a standard 2-car garage with dimensions of 21 feet wide by 23 feet deep. Of which approximately 3-5 feet is a step up close to the attached house wall. House was built in 1980.
The house/garage was previously owned by big DIY guys (I am as well) but was done in a manner that I didn’t want to keep. The previous, previous owner used the garage primarily as a gym from what I can tell. Pull up bar, mirrors, etc. I plan on keeping the pull up bar for myself and the mirrors for my daughter to dance in front of (its pretty damn cute). The owner after built a TON of cabinets along the side and back wall as well as a massive workbench (though very useful during our renovation) along the other wall, although more than I would ever need. Plus due to the size of the workbench, we are restricted to only putting one car in the garage. I like toys, we will discuss ”Ron” later…
So my overall plans for the garage will be to do the following:
* Full gut of the garage. Remove all the old ¼ plywood cabinets (all of them)
* Remove old workbench (very solid and made of solid core doors)
* Redo entire ceiling. The current ceiling has some previous water damage from HVAC unit in attic as well as re-drywall ceiling and removes popcorn. Then paint. There are also some holes, one by me, and one not by me.
* Paint walls. No stripe.
* Install the used metal workbench I purchased on CL for $50. It’s a Craftsman 6’ bench. Not perfect, but will suit my needs
* Install new metal cabinetry and lockers
* Add some type of wall storage system (I like the Gladiator products)
* Install attic ladder (very useful)
* Organize tools in tool boxes and chest. Vintage Remline and Equipto drawers.
* Floor (As with most renovations, the flooring is always up for debate). My preference is Racedeck free flow. I think it adds some patterns you don’t get from epoxy. Plus in Florida it rains so darn much it’s would be nice for the water to drain through. Plus my wife likes it more than epoxy…win win right? I also don’t have a ton of area to cover with the Racedeck given a portion of the garage has the step. The step I plan on painting with a good garage paint (maybe one-part epoxy…I need to do more research).
* Lighting. I plan on installing some plug in lights to help with the darkness. Eventually I will wire them in the attic when we redo the outside lighting.
After that my wife’s SUV will be parked on the left side of the garage so she won’t get wet while loading and unloading the kids. And on the other side, that will be where “Ron” sleeps. Once again we’ll get to him later.
Okay, so enjoy the “pre” photos of the garage…I’ll try to post more up later if time permits. Some are higher quality than others…
As I sit here at work, bored, it feels like a good time to show up off my garage. My wife and purchased our first home together back in 2014, pretty much your typically Florida 4 bedroom/2 bath ranch-style home with an attached 2 car garage. As most homes, if not all homes in Florida, we don’t have basements therefore the garage become a mix of storage, work area, maybe a car, etc.
After moving into the house, we work primarily on the interior prior to me fixing the garage. We redid all the flooring which was tile throughout, 5 ¼ inch baseboards, crown molding, painted every square inch of the house, pretty much made it our own. Thankfully the bathrooms were updated in the past and the kitchen, though dated, is still in great shape (hopefully we tackle the kitchen next year). As with life, our new family got in the way. We welcomed our first child in August 2014 and have another due any week now; therefore the garage project was pushed aside. I did start working on it a couple months ago at a slow pace when time permitted.
Ok, so enough about me and the house…on to the garage! The garage is a standard 2-car garage with dimensions of 21 feet wide by 23 feet deep. Of which approximately 3-5 feet is a step up close to the attached house wall. House was built in 1980.
The house/garage was previously owned by big DIY guys (I am as well) but was done in a manner that I didn’t want to keep. The previous, previous owner used the garage primarily as a gym from what I can tell. Pull up bar, mirrors, etc. I plan on keeping the pull up bar for myself and the mirrors for my daughter to dance in front of (its pretty damn cute). The owner after built a TON of cabinets along the side and back wall as well as a massive workbench (though very useful during our renovation) along the other wall, although more than I would ever need. Plus due to the size of the workbench, we are restricted to only putting one car in the garage. I like toys, we will discuss ”Ron” later…
So my overall plans for the garage will be to do the following:
* Full gut of the garage. Remove all the old ¼ plywood cabinets (all of them)
* Remove old workbench (very solid and made of solid core doors)
* Redo entire ceiling. The current ceiling has some previous water damage from HVAC unit in attic as well as re-drywall ceiling and removes popcorn. Then paint. There are also some holes, one by me, and one not by me.
* Paint walls. No stripe.
* Install the used metal workbench I purchased on CL for $50. It’s a Craftsman 6’ bench. Not perfect, but will suit my needs
* Install new metal cabinetry and lockers
* Add some type of wall storage system (I like the Gladiator products)
* Install attic ladder (very useful)
* Organize tools in tool boxes and chest. Vintage Remline and Equipto drawers.
* Floor (As with most renovations, the flooring is always up for debate). My preference is Racedeck free flow. I think it adds some patterns you don’t get from epoxy. Plus in Florida it rains so darn much it’s would be nice for the water to drain through. Plus my wife likes it more than epoxy…win win right? I also don’t have a ton of area to cover with the Racedeck given a portion of the garage has the step. The step I plan on painting with a good garage paint (maybe one-part epoxy…I need to do more research).
* Lighting. I plan on installing some plug in lights to help with the darkness. Eventually I will wire them in the attic when we redo the outside lighting.
After that my wife’s SUV will be parked on the left side of the garage so she won’t get wet while loading and unloading the kids. And on the other side, that will be where “Ron” sleeps. Once again we’ll get to him later.
Okay, so enjoy the “pre” photos of the garage…I’ll try to post more up later if time permits. Some are higher quality than others…
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I cant wait to see how this turns out. Grab the hammers and bars and start tearin!