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Finishing the loft: We ended up going with your basic satin white for up there. We didn’t get too complicated with it. Painting that loft was downright painful - the angles and corners were a killer on my shoulders and arms. The floor: We went through a zillion different iterations for how...

Finishing the main floor. Funny how specifying so many outlets really didn’t sink in until the drywall was put in. Holy ****! We also got the garage doors installed as they were doing the mud/taping. They did a totally crappy job finishing up to the edges of the doors and door hardware. I...

Drywalling the loft. View downstairs: View towards the stairs: View from the top of the stairs:

From bathroom to media room: From media room into bathroom: View of the media room:

Drywall: We had a discussion with the township inspector, he dutifully informed us that in order to proceed to drywall, we had to have a fully functioning heating system (especially since it was Feb and quite cold). He said since it was a garage he would cut us some slack on this, but the...

Insulation time! We went with blown-in insulation for the vertical walls on the first and second floors. At 6" depth that gives around R21. For the ceilings on both the first and second floors we did the standard R19 batt. While I am not technically designing for two separate zones for the...

Garage door wiring: Obviously I would need to have garage doors put in. While I was at it I replaced the attached garage door with the same door type and opener. This allowed me to observe the exact wiring pattern such that I could route the wires through the walls in the garage. Another pet...

Ethernet: During the design phase I went through several iterations of what I wanted to do. Since I had no idea where everything would end up and since Cat6 cable was relatively cheap, I thought I would overkill it vs. wishing I had run it after it was done. I'm a big believer in wired vs...

Electrical: I had a decision to make. I could upgrade my house service and run the power feed back out there (prob around 40ft each way) or run a new line directly to the garage. By far the simpler method was to run the wire directly to the garage (only about 12 feet from the feed). I found...

Diagrams! A couple of things happened to me. The photobucket thing and then I lost a bunch of docs that I had on Microsoft OneDrive. This first diagram is one that I lost and had to subsequently re-create. It shows the initial layout of the garage and how I determined where to put most of...

Sorry about the rotating pictures! I am following the instructions to load the photos into this thread but some are being rotated. I saved one of them the opposite way and it still rotated it. Weird.

Bathroom/Kitchen plumbing: Also including a nice shot of the HVAC above the bathroom. Plumber did a nice job of keeping the water lines out of the outside walls as he ran them through the ceiling of the media room and bathroom. Plumbed for toilet, bathroom sink, shower and kitchen sink...

Thank you!

Thank you Unruh! At this point we just chalked it up to the fact that you cant make everyone happy. I never had a problem with detached garages, but apparently it is undesirable! I guess I never got that memo!

HVAC: I wanted a unit that could basically heat/cool the place at will just like a house. Therefore I used the same basic furnace/AC combo as I had in my house: A Comfortmaker 80k BTU unit. There is also the emergency spare parts benefit in case the main house unit goes out…. The plan is to...

It was really cool to watch as they were able to do all of this in one day. Finished:

Well, here we are over a year later. Outside is pretty much finished save for a few trim pieces. Inside is still a work in progress. Looks like I lost a bunch of photos in the thread due to Photobucket. I will have to replace them as I go along. I've learned a ton since I started the...

Do it and you will not regret it. My garage is only 50' from the house and mine will have a lav and shower...

Nice shot of the front, showing the completed windows and roof. And, nice shot of the right side and rear with the completed siding. Still have some trim work to do as well as the gutters. Left side is close to being done: Sorry again, cant seem to get the portrait photos to line up...