Recent content by Picklerick

Yea, I think you're right. I found some carpet strips in one of the corners. You should see the house. There's more feet of molding in one of the bathrooms than there was in my last house. I'm going to keep as much of it as I can in the garage, someone spent an awful lot of time putting it up.

I pulled found a couple of filing cabinets in the scrap container and was able to use them to replace the saw horses underneath my work "desk". I built 2x4 platforms underneath of the filing cabinets to bring them up a couple of inches to make the desk height a little more appropriate. They are...

It's been a couple weeks and I've made a fair amount of progress on the garage. I've been able to clean out almost everything from the previous owners and starting bringing the rest of my stuff in and filling it with tools. Still lots of golf clubs and hazardous materials to dispose of. I took...

That's actually not far off from my plan. I'm getting rid of the fridges and some of the big stuff this weekend and then am going to build a small potting shed for the yard tools, pots, and other "outdoor" items. It should free up a lot of space.

I believe the garage was built with the house, which was 1938. I'm pretty sure the house isn't terracotta though. I'd never seen the terracotta block before. I'll have to learn how to do stucco to repair some spots on the outside.

Thanks for the welcome! I'm over in Arlington VA. I'll definitely keep posting photos of the garage and my projects. Hopefully I'll have time to work on things besides the garage itself!

Starting to organize: In order to be able to use the garage and start organizing my stuff and the previous owners leftovers I started organizing and trying to get to every wall to dust, vacuum, sweep and clean. I pulled almost everything out so that I could get to the walls and see what kind...

Post Move In: After the home was finally ours, I had to fill the garage even more with my junk. By the time we had moved our stuff in and had a chance to take stock of what we had in the garage, I had 10 shovels between what I had and what was left in the garage, 3 fridges, like 15 paint...

Move in status: When we moved into the new place this weekend I was left to deal with the previous owners stuff they had left in the garage. I would say junk, but I've found quite a bit of usable stuff hidden in there. Here are some photos from before we moved in showing the state of the space...

I've just moved from a townhouse to a single family home a few miles outside of DC. With the new home came a detached garage, which is pretty rare this close to the city in this price range. The only catch is that the garage needs work and that we were left with lots of stuff in the garage from...

Wow. I love the tile. I think that would work super well since I hope to do some minor metal fabrication work in the new workshop. I see it at regular price for around $.79 a square foot from the big box stores, which isn't bad at all.

Hi Folks, Happy to do my first post on this forum! I'm moving next weekend to a new home with a detached "garage". The house is from 1938 and it looks like the garage was made around the same time which is constructed out of terra cotta blocks. I hope to turn this into more of a workshop than...