Ever added any artistic flair to your garage or tools?

[Bennylava]

First let me say that I'm not talking about coating your toolbox or door in stickers from companies. I mean something real, like painting a mural of an old 60's ford truck (or something) on a blank wall. Just to make the place look cooler, and less basic. For me, it makes me want to spend more time out there if it's a nice place.

For example right now I'm making my own rattle can shaker and I'm going to use this stencil on a blank section. Haven't figured out what words to put in the black oval at the top yet.

What else is out there? And what have you done? I'm no painter so stencils are kinda my thing. But they go a long way towards improving the looks of things.

 

[racecougar]

My wife bought a cover for my lathe that says "You spin me right round baby..." on it. Otherwise, I have plenty of "wall hangers" like the M38A2 practice bomb, the cudgels, etc., but no murals.

 

[zkdiesel]

 

[HoosierBuddy]

Lots of things for sure. The first one was right after I built the shop in 2006. I emailed this design to the local sign shop:



A couple of weeks later I picked up my sign, which is roughly 4' X 4' and hung it centered on the 13' wall along the back of the 3 car garage. I mounted a spot light on top of my middle bay overhead door operator that comes on with the operator's normal light. Basically anytime you open the middle bay or hit the light switch on the middle bay overhead door control, the spotlight kicks on and lights up the sign. The sign is 3 d with the car cut out sitting out away from the background. He made the antenna out of a piece of chrome wire, as it would have been too thin to cut on his router otherwise.

The shadows here aren't painted. They are being made by the parts of the sign that are separate pieces sitting on standoffs in front of the background "Highway" sign shape.

 

[Stuart in MN]

There's a fellow on the Breaktime 3 home building forum who's a retired Lithonia Lighting engineer, he's done some pretty cool stuff with accent lighting in his garage. He's also a big fan of 1960s McLaren race cars, and painted one wall in their signature orange color along with a McLaren logo. As for Garage Journal members, it's hard to beat Jack Olson's garage for attractive design and use of colors.

 

[Hohn]

You guys are all much cooler than me. I have lots of old license plates on the shelf (a collection of my vehicle life, basically) and been meaning to make a project from them. Sort of a "my vehicle history" thing.

 

[driftpin]

Geez who has room on his walls? Not me! About the only place not covered by shelving, cabinets, or tools, is the garage door.

Here's a little fellah I got from my DIL, I have been keeping it as a keyboard companion. I might try to come-up w/sculptures of my own, but I don't have a big metal scraps pile. We'll see.

 

[aquinob]

Nothing on the walls, they are mostly taken up by storage or just blocked. But when I redid a Delta 30C RAS many moons ago, I decided to be a bit more expressive. I painted it in Navy blue and gold and made some small bits out of rosewood for missing handles and knobs.

 

[rmack898]

I made this sign. It’s a mix of plasma cut and machined elements. It’s 3x5’ and hang 10’ above the floor.