motociclista
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I'm a long-time lurker who has used the site to get ideas and advice, but haven't had anything to contribute, really. But I thought I'd post my modest project.
If you're looking for underground bunkers with better security than Fort Knox, luxurious man caves with full entertainment systems or big-bucks cribs for Ferraris, skip to another thread.
On the other hand, if you're at all interested in just how much you can do to a neglected and abused ordinary two-car garage with a weekend of labor and about $100, then this is your thread.
When my wife and I bought our current house, the original owners had kept the house in good condition, but had treated the garage like a dumping ground. The ceiling was finished but the walls were unfinished drywall and they had nailed 2X4s at semi-random intervals to use for hanging stuff.
They had built these homemade shelves to throw more junk on. They weighed a ton and took up space I needed for parking.
They had also put in this overhead storage rack, for some reason, positioned in just the right spot so that if something fell off it would land on the hood of the car. That had to go. Why they insisted on creating so much storage space in the garage I don't understand because the house has a huge walk-out basement with lots of storage space and a backyard shed for gardening tools.
Their solution to hanging stuff was to jam a nail into the drywall or put up some cheap bracket, so the walls were full of holes.
That's what I started with. The next post will be the "after" version.
If you're looking for underground bunkers with better security than Fort Knox, luxurious man caves with full entertainment systems or big-bucks cribs for Ferraris, skip to another thread.
On the other hand, if you're at all interested in just how much you can do to a neglected and abused ordinary two-car garage with a weekend of labor and about $100, then this is your thread.
When my wife and I bought our current house, the original owners had kept the house in good condition, but had treated the garage like a dumping ground. The ceiling was finished but the walls were unfinished drywall and they had nailed 2X4s at semi-random intervals to use for hanging stuff.
They had built these homemade shelves to throw more junk on. They weighed a ton and took up space I needed for parking.
They had also put in this overhead storage rack, for some reason, positioned in just the right spot so that if something fell off it would land on the hood of the car. That had to go. Why they insisted on creating so much storage space in the garage I don't understand because the house has a huge walk-out basement with lots of storage space and a backyard shed for gardening tools.
Their solution to hanging stuff was to jam a nail into the drywall or put up some cheap bracket, so the walls were full of holes.
That's what I started with. The next post will be the "after" version.
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