chenthu
Well-known member
Hello everyone..
After being corrupted by all the great garages here, I have started on doing up our garage. I am going to blatantly and shamelessly copy ideas from everyone here, hence the title!
Caveat Emptor!
Now, about the garage, it is a 20x23 attached two car garage. The garage will be used for the cars and to store bikes and misc garage stuff. It will not be a working garage, ie, no shop et al. The goal for the garage makeover would be to have a aesthetically pleasing garage to pull in everyday after work! I realize that sounds vain, but that is really my goal, to have something nice and clean with no clutter.
I am not handy and frankly scared of doing things myself - or you can call me lazy! So I will be getting help with the work, except for the floors which I am planning on doing myself if I go with the garage tiles.
Alright, so in a lot of aspects, this would be a boring thread for most here - it is not a shop, ideas copied from others, will not be doing this myself and to top it, one of the cars in the garage will be a minivan, yup, a minivan! If you are still reading this, whats wrong with you!
So here is what I am planning - I broke the garage process into 4 parts - Walls, Floors, Cabinets & Misc
Walls - I did not want a gray when I first started looking. But after going through so many of them, grays are not bad at all. Still didnt want to go all gray, so it is a blackish gray lower half, bluish gray upper half / ceilings, and the customary red stripe(!).
Flooring - I never expected this to be such a confusing area but it truly was and I am still undecided, although I am heavily leaning towards the garage tiles such as GarageTrac / Swisstrax / Racedeck.
Cabinets - I dont need a lot of space, but need enough bulk space primarily for yard stuff and other bulky items. I am thinking two tall cabinets and two base cabinets. Will go with metal cabinets to "man up" the garage, either Black and Decker or New Age.
Misc - This would be everything else that doesnt fall in the above three categories, primarily wall decor ideas that I will steal from you all! Saving this for last..
Onto whats happenning:
This is after Day 1 - after we emptied out the garage and the remaining time was spent prepping the wall. By the way, the angle of the camera makes the garage look much bigger, it is a standard two car garage.
This is after Day 2, wall and door primer was done and floor cleaned:
Thats where we are!
- SB
After being corrupted by all the great garages here, I have started on doing up our garage. I am going to blatantly and shamelessly copy ideas from everyone here, hence the title!
Caveat Emptor! Now, about the garage, it is a 20x23 attached two car garage. The garage will be used for the cars and to store bikes and misc garage stuff. It will not be a working garage, ie, no shop et al. The goal for the garage makeover would be to have a aesthetically pleasing garage to pull in everyday after work! I realize that sounds vain, but that is really my goal, to have something nice and clean with no clutter.
I am not handy and frankly scared of doing things myself - or you can call me lazy! So I will be getting help with the work, except for the floors which I am planning on doing myself if I go with the garage tiles.
Alright, so in a lot of aspects, this would be a boring thread for most here - it is not a shop, ideas copied from others, will not be doing this myself and to top it, one of the cars in the garage will be a minivan, yup, a minivan! If you are still reading this, whats wrong with you!
So here is what I am planning - I broke the garage process into 4 parts - Walls, Floors, Cabinets & Misc
Walls - I did not want a gray when I first started looking. But after going through so many of them, grays are not bad at all. Still didnt want to go all gray, so it is a blackish gray lower half, bluish gray upper half / ceilings, and the customary red stripe(!).
Flooring - I never expected this to be such a confusing area but it truly was and I am still undecided, although I am heavily leaning towards the garage tiles such as GarageTrac / Swisstrax / Racedeck.
Cabinets - I dont need a lot of space, but need enough bulk space primarily for yard stuff and other bulky items. I am thinking two tall cabinets and two base cabinets. Will go with metal cabinets to "man up" the garage, either Black and Decker or New Age.
Misc - This would be everything else that doesnt fall in the above three categories, primarily wall decor ideas that I will steal from you all! Saving this for last..
Onto whats happenning:
This is after Day 1 - after we emptied out the garage and the remaining time was spent prepping the wall. By the way, the angle of the camera makes the garage look much bigger, it is a standard two car garage.
This is after Day 2, wall and door primer was done and floor cleaned:
Thats where we are!
- SB
