My Garage Update Plans - Comments/Suggestions Welcome

Hello all,

I'm pretty new on this board and am finding tons of excellent information and advice. We've been in our house a couple years and finished remodeling the kitchen a few months back. Well, I've kept a lot of the cabinets for the garage and plan to turn in into a really great workspace. It's a bit smaller than I'd like, but will do for sure. So here is the plan.

Phase 1: Paint the walls. Planning a 2-tone with white up top and grey down below. I'll probably split the 2 with a stripe.

Phase 2: Install storage shelf above the garage door, upper cabinets (reused from kitchen) along the back wall and gladiator wall storage system.

Phase 3: Garage floor. I'm not sure what I'm doing here yet. I was pretty set on epoxy, but am considering other options based on what I've seen on the forum.

Phase 4: Install lower cabinets (reused from kitchen), workbench and new lighting.

And of course, here are the pics. Please post any suggestions.

The garage as it is right now:


Another shot showing the side storage area:


It's a bit cramped, but after the kitchen remodel it was a few months before I could fit both cars back in the garage (the truck stays outside):


And here are the plans:

I assume the work space / bench is going against the back wall (21'8" side)? How much room will you have between the bench and cars when they are in the garage?

schwalby said:

I assume the work space / bench is going against the back wall (21'8" side)? How much room will you have between the bench and cars when they are in the garage?

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I haven't measured exactly yet, but my educated guess would be 2-3 feet with the Passat parked on that side. Not much room with the car's in there, but should work OK and I'll just move the car out when I need more space.