smsteve
Well-known member
Hi All,
Got lots of great ideas from this forum, many thanks. Enough that I wanted to do something at my 1bed/1bath rental cottage. Took me over a year to finally get the owner of the property to let me have the one car garage that is attached to my place. He had old refrigerators, bumpers, wood, junk, etc. About a month after I got the garage my rent increased $100 a month, funny how that worked out for me...
Here it is, not much but it's my little cave. Well, it's my rented little cave. The flooring is a rubber mat purchased at Lowe's. They no longer sell them and I had to track one down not at my local store. Once there I asked the manager for a discount since they were discontinued. He said sure, why not and knocked I think 40% off, lol. Got it for around $120. I then found some vinyl checkered tiles on Ebay, for around $50 for two boxes. More than enough since I only wanted to go down the edges under the mat which wasn't actually as wide as the garage. They also don't need to support any weight so all good there.
The cabinets are inexpensive Coleman units from Lowe's as well. Hey it's a rental and I'm not rich. I liked the way they looked, I was able to get just the right combo in for what I needed and "Bob's your uncle".
A couple of wire shelving units (with the BMW flags) hold house items and some garage items as well. Wire cubes hold my helmets, boots, gloves and visiting friends gear as well. The bent stainless steel cart was a freebie from my office, it will be strengthened with some aluminum angle bar stock when I have some extra time.
The bike, lucky I only have one, is a 2004 BMW Boxer Cup Replica. I've only had it since March of '09 so it needed a nice place to live.
Still planning on a few more things, like some thin ceiling cover of some sort.
Comments and suggestions on any part of the garage are welcome.
8-26-2011: Adding a few "before" pictures, since it's always nice to see how nasty something was before hand...
Just after all the yuck was cleaned out and it got hosed down.
Checkerboard indoor vinyl "self adhesive" tiles from eBay layed down, two courses wide. Just enough for the rubber mat that will be coming next.
Rubber mat from Lowes. It actually longer than the garage is deep so a little trimming and I was good to go.
One of the reasons I decided to go this way is that this is a rental unit, and I wanted to be able to roll up the mat, hit the tiles with a scraper and ****...I was never there...
Moving in the good stuff...
Got lots of great ideas from this forum, many thanks. Enough that I wanted to do something at my 1bed/1bath rental cottage. Took me over a year to finally get the owner of the property to let me have the one car garage that is attached to my place. He had old refrigerators, bumpers, wood, junk, etc. About a month after I got the garage my rent increased $100 a month, funny how that worked out for me...
Here it is, not much but it's my little cave. Well, it's my rented little cave. The flooring is a rubber mat purchased at Lowe's. They no longer sell them and I had to track one down not at my local store. Once there I asked the manager for a discount since they were discontinued. He said sure, why not and knocked I think 40% off, lol. Got it for around $120. I then found some vinyl checkered tiles on Ebay, for around $50 for two boxes. More than enough since I only wanted to go down the edges under the mat which wasn't actually as wide as the garage. They also don't need to support any weight so all good there.
The cabinets are inexpensive Coleman units from Lowe's as well. Hey it's a rental and I'm not rich. I liked the way they looked, I was able to get just the right combo in for what I needed and "Bob's your uncle".
A couple of wire shelving units (with the BMW flags) hold house items and some garage items as well. Wire cubes hold my helmets, boots, gloves and visiting friends gear as well. The bent stainless steel cart was a freebie from my office, it will be strengthened with some aluminum angle bar stock when I have some extra time.
The bike, lucky I only have one, is a 2004 BMW Boxer Cup Replica. I've only had it since March of '09 so it needed a nice place to live.
Still planning on a few more things, like some thin ceiling cover of some sort.
Comments and suggestions on any part of the garage are welcome.
8-26-2011: Adding a few "before" pictures, since it's always nice to see how nasty something was before hand...
Just after all the yuck was cleaned out and it got hosed down.
Checkerboard indoor vinyl "self adhesive" tiles from eBay layed down, two courses wide. Just enough for the rubber mat that will be coming next.
Rubber mat from Lowes. It actually longer than the garage is deep so a little trimming and I was good to go.
One of the reasons I decided to go this way is that this is a rental unit, and I wanted to be able to roll up the mat, hit the tiles with a scraper and ****...I was never there...
Moving in the good stuff...
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