Hello all, I have been on this site looking for inspiration and guidance for some time to which i have found so much. So first I would like to thank the community on giving so much to people like me in helping me get to my goals.
Have decided to show what i have completed.
It’s a small and odd size single garage of 7mx3.5m i moved into the house in late last year and the garage looked like this.
Cold, dark and basically unused for over 10 years.
So first was to get some power in there for lighting/power and strip it out.
Followed by prepping and painting the walls/ceiling with a exterior hard wearing paint.
Next was to look at the floor .
I was looking at what the best flooring options would be for my needs. I decided on a custom diy install.
So I prepped the floor, acid etched and scrubbed like mad waited ...............
Neutralised the acid and cleared all the mess up.
Then pained in a semi gloss polyurethane black epoxy paint.
Let it set the on went a second coat.
Time to put on the home made spike shoes and add the next touch . Glitter . I had bought this from my local craft store , so I preceded to give a light dusting of the glitter flakes/dust .
I Followed by mixing some glow in the dark powder to some clear epoxy with some glitter and flicking it around the floor.
Let this all dry then added 4 coats of polyurethane clear epoxy over the course of a month.
With the lights on it looks groovy to the point that my chums call it a disco floor as it refracts the light and shines in a rainbow of colours. But when the lights go out the floor looks like the clear night sky. I can’t capture it on my camera but it looks really neat.!
Next wire up strip lights and power points
Put in all the tools and other bits
Then make a solid work bench and put in all the shelves.
Sound system and laptop and off we go
And done...........
Put my little run around in to give scale.
Thanks for reading and thank you to everyone on here for the great information and support.
Dan
Have decided to show what i have completed.
It’s a small and odd size single garage of 7mx3.5m i moved into the house in late last year and the garage looked like this.
Cold, dark and basically unused for over 10 years.
So first was to get some power in there for lighting/power and strip it out.
Followed by prepping and painting the walls/ceiling with a exterior hard wearing paint.
Next was to look at the floor .
I was looking at what the best flooring options would be for my needs. I decided on a custom diy install.
So I prepped the floor, acid etched and scrubbed like mad waited ...............
Neutralised the acid and cleared all the mess up.
Then pained in a semi gloss polyurethane black epoxy paint.
Let it set the on went a second coat.
Time to put on the home made spike shoes and add the next touch . Glitter . I had bought this from my local craft store , so I preceded to give a light dusting of the glitter flakes/dust .
I Followed by mixing some glow in the dark powder to some clear epoxy with some glitter and flicking it around the floor.
Let this all dry then added 4 coats of polyurethane clear epoxy over the course of a month.
With the lights on it looks groovy to the point that my chums call it a disco floor as it refracts the light and shines in a rainbow of colours. But when the lights go out the floor looks like the clear night sky. I can’t capture it on my camera but it looks really neat.!
Next wire up strip lights and power points
Put in all the tools and other bits
Then make a solid work bench and put in all the shelves.
Sound system and laptop and off we go
And done...........
Put my little run around in to give scale.
Thanks for reading and thank you to everyone on here for the great information and support.
Dan
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Love the revamp, you can't beat a garage vac(as SWMBO says) are you going to heat your space ?