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And for my last post regarding the non-garage portion of my 1950's Gas Station Man Cave Garage, a before and after pic...

3-D TV!!!! We didn't own a single flat screen TV, but we decided the station needed something awesome. The Wii left the house and became a permanent fixture of the man cave as well. There have been many Rock Band breaks.

Went out and bought dang near the cheapest laminate flooring you could buy at Lumber Liquidators. Mostly because of the price, but also because it wasn't terribly thick flooring. The floor crested slightly along the previously-mentioned east-west crack, so needed something that would give me a...

Lucky Window. About three years ago my wife and I spent some money to purchase wood blinds for our back window at home. It was a large custom size picture window, about 6 foot wide by 3.5 feet tall. We hated spending the money on it, but wanted something besides curtains. Ordered it at a...

I eventually put up fresh drywall, taped, mudded, painted light gray. Notice the outlet far up the wall...

The whole termite thing was a lot of depressing work. To make up for it, I consulted my favorite psychologist for motivation: Craigslist. Man cave now in possession of a stand-up, four-person, NFL Blitz 2000 Gold, NBA Showtime 2000 Gold, coin-op video game. Oh, and I got a fake tree with...

Things had been moving along up to then. It slowed down when I discovered that the 2x4 beneath the furnace return was spongy, but it wasn't wet... Termites. So off came the panels on the west wall to find the extent of their munching. One board was so far eaten that only the outside remained...

Here's the ceiling as it started looking good.

Had to make a decision to not mess with the, I said plaster earlier, ok, thinking of my house, it's not plaster up there, it's old drywall. Does anyone else ever have so many projects going on that your brain just merges everything together? So, aside from removing some falling hazards, the old...

Next came the second front window (the other was in the office). Masked it off and painted it white. Bought a fern. Fern is dead already.

Here are some pics of the lounge before we started doing anything with it. Highlights include wood panels, vinyl square floor tiles, plaster falling from the original ceiling, wet and stained suspended ceiling, and the years of cigarette smoke. Oh, and APEowner, the ceiling tiles are...

Back in the saddle. Ok, so far, this doesn't look much like a garage, I know. It's there, and I'm working on it now, but wanted to try and get things posted on the thread in the order I've done things. This next part covers the lounge area, which is actually the interior of the original gas...

Here's the finished office, initially. I even had a 1950's steel tanker desk already, so it went in there. Although I don't have a picture of it handy, that old plastic window got replaced. I found some mirror film online and had a new piece of glass cut. Now when you look in the front door, you...

And then color. Wife went with a red to match her lamp shade. Just one wall. I wasn't sure when she first talked about it, but I love it now. Went with rock-looking 12" adhesive floor tiles. White floor trim. White outlets. Oh, somethign about the outlets. I replaced all of them in the...

Next came patching holes. There were nails to hang things everywhere. I could have filled a paint can of nails. Then painted the walls. White. Replaced the ceiling tiles. Bought two batches of tiles before finding a lady on Craigslist that had a whole bunch that came out of a Wal-Mart, and they...

These next pics are of the office after it was cleaned out and we started working on it. The box in the middle of the floor was my wife's inspiration piece. It's a lamp. Important to notice the lampshade is red. After I pulled up the linoleum, started wire brushing the floor with my grinder...

And moving on, but backing up... This first pic is what it looked like to peer longingly into a window of a building that you had signed a contract on, but couldn't get into yet. The Station, even though it hasn't been a gas station for some decades, has been a used car lot and a mechanic's...

Guys, thank you for all the positive feedback! I'm sure it will be just the motivation I need when elbow grease is running low. Right now I'm in a hotel room about an hour away from home, missing the Station, but for a great reason: my father-in-law got married today. He's eighty. Married...

Add a $50 vanity, a $30 faucet, $25 in plumbing because I screwed up more than once trying to connect up to a previously installed non-standard drain, $35 mirror, $5 towel ring, $5 tp holder, $20 in trim, a smelly thing for the mirror shelf, and a Darth Vader mug. So including paint and epoxy...

The floor was another matter altogether. The old tile was a beyotch to get out, but the old adhesive was worse. I eventually used a wire brush on an angle grinder to get down to etchable cement. The toilet fixture, even though it was being held in place with a 2x4, was only a few months old...