First post, First garage

[Defi]

Hey guys, I just purchased my first home on July 18th and it has an attached 20x24 garage (I know gigantic right )

Regardless its mine and we will only be keeping one car in the garage and that's this baby!

The white one is mine.

My plans for the garage is to finish the drywall, paint and turn it into my own little fabrication and repair shop. At this point though I am trying to decide on a color scheme for the walls and I am having a really hard time finding pictures of something I like. I was hoping to get the opinion of all of you.

I really want something different that will inspire creativity and abstract thinking so I really want to do something outside of the norm. I am thinking a black and bright green color scheme something like this.

I know its pretty aggressive colors as far as garage walls go. The problem is I have yet to find any images of garages with dark walls at all let alone that color scheme. Assuming I had several large ceiling lights, is there any reason I should avoid going with this color scheme?

Sorry for the long story but it doubles as my intro!

 

[GRN96WS6]

Sweet Poopra, what area of the country?

 

[Defi]

Sweet Poopra, what area of the country?

Im out in Colorado Springs, CO. Thank you

 

[brycez28]

I like the idea, but just remember that dark colors absorb light.

 

[Lassen Forge]

It looks good, but you're gonna have to pump a **lot** lf light into that garage to make it usable and it will still feel small, and never bright enough.

Add to that - to get the green to pop (which would be added to the cool factor) it would have to be a fluorescent paint, and you'd need black lights in there (on a separate circuit, so you could kill the white lights, and a night light glow would come from the paint on the wall). OK, cool - but still dark.

I could see it - from a "cool" fctor - especially if the green was fluorescent and you have blacklights... but part of a shop is usability, and the darkness of the black and green would make that tough. (Plus, if you ever decided to repaint it, covering that would be damned near impossible - an old HS BF did his bedroom in Black, and it was cool - for about 6 months. They tried to repaint it white - i was a blotchy ugly gray - and finally re-sheetrocked that room (talk about a HUGE pain in the you know where!) just to make it right.

Remember - it's a shop, not a den or an office.

Whatever you decide - good luck!

 

[Defi]

It looks good, but you're gonna have to pump a **lot** lf light into that garage to make it usable and it will still feel small, and never bright enough.

Add to that - to get the green to pop (which would be added to the cool factor) it would have to be a fluorescent paint, and you'd need black lights in there (on a separate circuit, so you could kill the white lights, and a night light glow would come from the paint on the wall). OK, cool - but still dark.

I could see it - from a "cool" fctor - especially if the green was fluorescent and you have blacklights... but part of a shop is usability, and the darkness of the black and green would make that tough. (Plus, if you ever decided to repaint it, covering that would be damned near impossible - an old HS BF did his bedroom in Black, and it was cool - for about 6 months. They tried to repaint it white - i was a blotchy ugly gray - and finally re-sheetrocked that room (talk about a HUGE pain in the you know where!) just to make it right.

Remember - it's a shop, not a den or an office.

Whatever you decide - good luck!

Thats why I wanted to reach out to everyone and get some insight. I really want the shop to stand out from everything else in my life and inspire. I see a lot of garage builds and they seem to stick with a grey/red theme and I just wanted something different.

I have 4 of these already and plan to get 2-4 more. Would something like a medium grey possibly be a better choice?

 

[vovka]

Nice ride I take it it's got defi gauges ???


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[Defi]

Nice ride I take it it's got defi gauges ???


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haha, no not yet. Defi was a nick name I picked up because of how defiant I was growing up.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Congratulations & welcome aboard, Defi!

Tommy

 

[Defi]

I am also planning tom insulate the ceiling of the garage but wanted to leave the rafters exposed for storage. My question is since the trusses are made of 2x4s and I need a 1" gap between the ceiling and the insulation, would radiant foam boards be ok? The garage is attached and I just noticed there is NO vents anywhere in the ceiling.