After being in our home for 3 years now, I decided it's finally time to get my garage sorted out. It's a small 10x24 one car (with a low ceiling of I believe 7.5 feet maybe, if that), and as much as I didn't want to buy a house with a single car garage, the market was kind of dry when we were house hunting and we got a good deal on this place, and it has a decent yard, so I sacrificed the one thing I really wanted to get in to our first house. It's built right in to the land, and I don't think I have enough room to really expand and if I did it'd be a **** ton of money anyways, so for the next few years at the least I've gotta make the best out of what I have. So, here's the start!
Last night my father in law and I hung 3 shop lights, 2 parallel with the garage and one in the back perpendicular. Before them, the only lights were a twin bulb fluorescent light in the back left, and an incandescent light on the ceiling. They just weren't cutting it lol. So after those were hung and nightfall came along, I snapped the first pic of the garage since we moved in, which is below. The rider typically is in a shed in our back yard, but the deck engagement cable busted so it's in the garage until I get the new cable in from Troy Bilt. The ac units are only in there until tomorrow as well. The push mower is in there during the summer but will also go in the shed during the winter, since I park my car in the garage during the winters. Other than that, what you see is what you get! It's nothing too fantastical or interesting, but I'm a forum ***** so I figured why not share what I've got lol
And it's a work in progress, so I hope to document some semi-frequent updates.
In the back there was a full span of floor cabinets, but I took the doors out and removed the inside shelving from the right side so I could fit my winter wheels and tires, which are behind a Bolens rider you can see behind the Troy Bilt (Bolens will be going away soon hopefully), and then I brought my toolbox up from the basement and put it under the left side shelf which you can just barely see in the back. Hopefully next year I'll be able to rip out all of that old cabinetry and install some newer shelving, and maybe a nice storage chest too, we'll see. Believe it or not, my car fits nicely in here once it's a little more cleaned out
Next step is a GarageDeck floor that will be installed tomorrow night after work. I can't freakin wait to get that down! And then next spring I'll be doing paint on the walls, will most likely go with a grey color on the brick that's currently green, a blue stripe in the middle with a black pinstripe surrounding it, and then white upper walls.
Pic from last night after I was done, consider this the "before" picture
And here's the floor design I did on bigfloors.com, the tiles will be arriving tomorrow, so stoked for it!
Last night my father in law and I hung 3 shop lights, 2 parallel with the garage and one in the back perpendicular. Before them, the only lights were a twin bulb fluorescent light in the back left, and an incandescent light on the ceiling. They just weren't cutting it lol. So after those were hung and nightfall came along, I snapped the first pic of the garage since we moved in, which is below. The rider typically is in a shed in our back yard, but the deck engagement cable busted so it's in the garage until I get the new cable in from Troy Bilt. The ac units are only in there until tomorrow as well. The push mower is in there during the summer but will also go in the shed during the winter, since I park my car in the garage during the winters. Other than that, what you see is what you get! It's nothing too fantastical or interesting, but I'm a forum ***** so I figured why not share what I've got lol
And it's a work in progress, so I hope to document some semi-frequent updates.In the back there was a full span of floor cabinets, but I took the doors out and removed the inside shelving from the right side so I could fit my winter wheels and tires, which are behind a Bolens rider you can see behind the Troy Bilt (Bolens will be going away soon hopefully), and then I brought my toolbox up from the basement and put it under the left side shelf which you can just barely see in the back. Hopefully next year I'll be able to rip out all of that old cabinetry and install some newer shelving, and maybe a nice storage chest too, we'll see. Believe it or not, my car fits nicely in here once it's a little more cleaned out
Next step is a GarageDeck floor that will be installed tomorrow night after work. I can't freakin wait to get that down! And then next spring I'll be doing paint on the walls, will most likely go with a grey color on the brick that's currently green, a blue stripe in the middle with a black pinstripe surrounding it, and then white upper walls.
Pic from last night after I was done, consider this the "before" picture
And here's the floor design I did on bigfloors.com, the tiles will be arriving tomorrow, so stoked for it!
You lucky dog!
