1969NOVASS
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Well, after nearly 11 months worth of planning, planning, and more planning, masking, painting, masking, and more painting, collecting cabinets (as they were on sale), welding together workbench legs (because the ones I purchased were pieces of junk), hanging up wall storage, putting down the floor tiles, and organizing everything -- I finally finished my garage.
As you can see it is truly a multi-use garage. My primary hobby is woodworking, and when me and my family moved to our new house I was finally able to move my equipment out of the garage and into my new basement. That allowed me to create the garage space that I've always wanted. As you can see I have my work area, storage for the sporting goods (in the large cabinets), storage for toys in the baskets, a place to hang my mountain bike, yard equipment storage, and outside toys.
Breakdown of what it took to accomplish what you see in the pics:
As you can see it is truly a multi-use garage. My primary hobby is woodworking, and when me and my family moved to our new house I was finally able to move my equipment out of the garage and into my new basement. That allowed me to create the garage space that I've always wanted. As you can see I have my work area, storage for the sporting goods (in the large cabinets), storage for toys in the baskets, a place to hang my mountain bike, yard equipment storage, and outside toys.
Breakdown of what it took to accomplish what you see in the pics:
- Paint Job - most time consuming step by far, required constantly moving stuff around the floor, and masking to make the blue line
- Lights - 6 three bulb T-8 industrial fixtures that I only paid $5 a piece for including bulbs - came out of an old Hardee's
- Floor Tiles - Dynotile clearance tiles that I found thanks to this site
- Cabinets - Whirlpool Gladiator brand, combination of preassembled version from Sears, and some assembly required versions from Lowe's
- Wall Storage - combination of Rubbermaid storage solutions, and Whirlpool Gladiator baskets
- Lumber rack - self designed rack consisting of 2x4's, steel pipe, and PVC to cover the pipe to prevent staining the wood - holds mega amount of weight
- Workbench - tops free from my FIL who got them out of a school that stopped their shop program, legs homemade from 3/16 angle at 1/3 the cost of crappy store bought legs made from sheet metal
i really like what you have done with it. all that planning payed off.