PhantomChaos
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New guy here on the site and have been looking around qutie a bit today. I've informally started an update to our garage which is really part of our house. It is a 3-car garage that has never had 3 cars in it.....only two cars and a bunch of "stuff" including old baby items, tools and a lawn tractor.
The upgrade to our garage started as a result of our previous project (isn't that how most projects start?) which was having all the wood painted on our house a whole new color. The rest of the house is smooth stucco. It was time as the house is 5 years old and the wood needed new paint already, and we also wanted to change the look of the house somewhat.
All the wood was a light biege of some sort (see garage doors and soffets? and window frames). We went with a dark dark brown color for all the wood as seen in the next garage door pic. We knew we wanted to have wood stained doors instead of painted, but we had the old ones painted too until the new doors arrived. The old doors were not stain quality wood (center panels were some pressboard ****). New doors arrived and were installed last week. Ranch House Doors The next day we starting finishing them with a dark oak stain and sealers. That part is almost done (no picture yet).
THEN, I was led to this site and have been motiviated to move forward with new lighting, flooring, new paint inside and other things the garage.
With this site.....I hope to get some new insight on methods, products and features that I haven't thought of or researched yet! Thanks Garage Journal!
The upgrade to our garage started as a result of our previous project (isn't that how most projects start?) which was having all the wood painted on our house a whole new color. The rest of the house is smooth stucco. It was time as the house is 5 years old and the wood needed new paint already, and we also wanted to change the look of the house somewhat.
All the wood was a light biege of some sort (see garage doors and soffets? and window frames). We went with a dark dark brown color for all the wood as seen in the next garage door pic. We knew we wanted to have wood stained doors instead of painted, but we had the old ones painted too until the new doors arrived. The old doors were not stain quality wood (center panels were some pressboard ****). New doors arrived and were installed last week. Ranch House Doors The next day we starting finishing them with a dark oak stain and sealers. That part is almost done (no picture yet).
THEN, I was led to this site and have been motiviated to move forward with new lighting, flooring, new paint inside and other things the garage.
With this site.....I hope to get some new insight on methods, products and features that I haven't thought of or researched yet! Thanks Garage Journal!
After reading some threads in the lighting section, I looked at some lights and picked one for now. I ordered 
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Checking fluids? What is that? 
