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Good morning all. Great forum you have here! Been lurking for a while and thought I'd share my in-progress garage/guest house project.

Directly behind our home, connected by a deck, we have a detached 2 car garage (approx 25x30) with living quarters above. I recently completed the last of the work upstairs and have began finishing the garage space.

The garage was your typical bare drywall/mud job and had been a messy space since I moved in. The wall painting is mostly complete, still have to trim out/paint the windows, install baseboard trim to match what's upstairs, and epoxy-coat the floor. I will be going with a glossy black finish with white/granite/red flakes.

Sorry for the poor picture quality, some were taken with a cell phone.

These cabinets I found on craigslist ($160 for all three). They were audio/video cabinets which measured 48x36x18. I used a bright red spray paint from Rustoleum and gave them a new look.
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The walls, as you can see, are two toned (white/slate grey) with a glossy black stripe. Some of the touch-up paint is till wet in a few photos here. The trim around the doors will be black and the doors I plan to pain red to match the cabinets.

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Upstairs stairwell.
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Upstairs seating.
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Upstairs bed area.
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Upstairs bathroom.
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Upstairs kitchen tile.
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More seating and handrail.
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The guest area has become quite popular with friends/family when on town visiting as you could imagine. Lol.

I'll se sure to post more pics once the garage is complete and the epoxy floor is down.

Enjoy!



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Wow, that is ideal for sure. Great job with the upstairs and looking forward to seeing the "main floor" getting finished. That recess for your tool box is pretty trick. Looks like it could hold a full fridge (full of beer)!
 
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The recess where the toolbox is now is actually under the stairs. It's open all the way to the left on the inside. I store, behind the toolbox, my wheel barrel, camping gear, and misc buckets and large items.

Behind the double doors are the mechanicals for the garage (hot water heater and AC/Heat). It's also used to store a majority of the tools I own. I still need to do a little organizing in there as those items on the left need to go somewhere.
 
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Very nice work!

Can you tell me what you searched for on CL to find those? I have been looking but don't find anything like those.
 
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Yes. I used the search words of "metal cabinets". Lol.

They were brand new in the box. The fellow who sold them sold freight damaged goods, these were dented on the sides (not visible) from my installation.

Sandusky is the brand/manufacturer.
 
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Just a quick update. Progress since I started has been slow with all the bad winter weather we've had recently, hopefully that's all behond us now.

I finished painting the trim around the doors as well as the doors themselves over the weekend. Also stumbled across a large traffic light so I got it wired up and hung. I plan to install a wall switch for it, just havent decided on what type. I'd love to have something unusual as a switch.

The floors will go down real soon. I think I'm going with a VCT rather than epoxy now. I could change my mind again I'm sure.

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I like the first, but i think the second is a little less busy while still incorporating a cool design and all the three colours.
 
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Okay, I'll chime in with another variation on option #2. If (and only if) the gray tile matches the lower wall color well, I'd source a baseboard material (matching the gray also) to wrap the entire perimeter and hide the concrete curb as well. I'd do a continuous tile border in the gray, and I'd lose the black tiles entirely (replaced with gray). So, large red squares as they are now with gray strips, gray baseboard, and a gray tile border for the perimeter. Two colors, less busy, and I think a simpler pattern to set off your black wall stripe and the black door trim as shown in your post #10. Just my $0.02....

Oh, in looking at the patterns you posted, to make my 'suggestion' work, the entire pattern would be shifted 'in' and to the 'right' by 6" to allow a gray tile border width of 1 and 1/2 tiles for the entire periphery. That is, if your drawing is to scale of the actual garage dimensions and assuming tiles are 12"x12".


P.S. - Love the stop light you scored! Any details you care to share? Cost, power source, bulb type and wattage, etc., etc., etc.. I've got one sitting on the floor of a shop bay waiting for me to hang it, modify as needed, and paint it with some wild color (chrome???). Please let us know what all you've done to yours to get it looking good!
 
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The hip (concrete curb) will be tiled in a dark, almost black, tile. It's what's behind that door in the entry and upstairs in the kitchen. I will be running 6" baseboard, painted black, all the way around the parameter, again matching what's upstairs in the main house.

The drawing is to scale.

The stoplight was scored at a local flea market for $75. It's a real light from who knows where, and is quite large as you can see. Just as a modern stop light would have, each light cove can be opened independently to access the bulb and electronics. Each bulb is 50w and when standing in front is quite bright. The reflectors inside really do a great job.

I did nothing to it but hang it and run power to it. Someone else had already wired it up with a plug. There's no painting it as it's made of a hard black resin (like carbon fiber without the fiber). Not really sure how old it is, but it's identicle to current street lights.
 
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