chrisisiced
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20160421210231 by christopher jones, on FlickrHello everyone. I've been a long time lurker on this site, seeing many great garage setups here and cool ideas and in the 5 years I've owned my house I've always wanted to get my garage into decent shape. I'm a pretty good mechanic and love wrenching on my own toys and helping a few friends here and there but I never learned much in home repair and modification. When I moved into my home in 2011 my garage was "mostly" drywalled with no seams sealed and no paint or primer put up. Here is a shot of before I started my refresh:
20140601_204038 by christopher jones, on Flickr
20160221_100625 by christopher jones, on FlickrAnother angle:
20160221_100640 by christopher jones, on FlickrMy first original plan was to put drywall joint compound and joint tape on a seam to see how it would turn out. It just so happened that right after I started one of my neighbors who's a contractor shows up to hang out and he laughs at my attempts and my tooling. He runs home and shows up with his fancy trowels and blades and whatever and does one seam for me to demonstrate. He loans me his tools and says good luck on my project, hold onto them as long as I needed. Here is where I ended up:
20160221_131256 by christopher jones, on Flickr Slow but steady progress.
20160221_172055 by christopher jones, on Flickr Here at this phase I added primer where the joint compound was dry and sanded and the unfinished parts are where I was having trouble with the compound cracking so I didn't prime those areas yet. Also you'll notice how the previous owner "mostly" drywalled the garage because in the back right corner you can see the studs because he left that part out.
20160226_183040 by christopher jones, on FlickrAlso in the back left corner the previous owner did the same leaving the studs open:
20160228_030334 by christopher jones, on FlickrAt this stage I put up white paint on the lower half of the garage and then I thought about how frustrated I was with the old cabinets that were hanging on the wall. I liked the idea of having cabinets but the ones that were there had fixed shelves in them that were much too small. I could hardly fit anything in them so they got loaded with whatever **** would fit.
Off came the cabinets to reveal a pleasant surprise:
20160301_210721 by christopher jones, on Flickr Sorry for the blurry cell phone pic.My attempt at fixing this went like this:
20160302_213234 by christopher jones, on Flickr 
20160302_221132 by christopher jones, on FlickrMore practice joint sealing...
20160302_232938 by christopher jones, on FlickrI ended up leaving the open spot on the left side as it had a few electrical outlets and it would be covered by the green cabinet.
20160306_164420 by christopher jones, on FlickrThis was a taste of what was to follow:
20160306_164401 by christopher jones, on FlickrThen one night ended like this:
20160307_225452 by christopher jones, on FlickrI put my wife to work on some of the smaller details.
20160309_214553 by christopher jones, on FlickrAnd to replace the cabinets that were removed:
20160308_230621 by christopher jones, on FlickrClearly Jackson is not impressed.
After many weeks of working on this alone. I needed my wife to be the professional cabinet installer that she was destined to become so that we could get these new cabinets up:
20160310_201850 by christopher jones, on FlickrNow that I was nearing the end I wanted to tackle some of the smaller details like refinishing my workbench. Polyurethane clear gloss from minwax.
20160312_182444 by christopher jones, on FlickrFast forward to today and while not yet complete I'm happy with where this is going. Still a bit of cleaning and reorganizing to do but I feel much more relaxed now that the major stuff is out of the way.
20160312015023 by christopher jones, on Flickr
20160312015308 by christopher jones, on Flickr
20160312015702 by christopher jones, on FlickrFuture plans:
Upgrading to a larger tv
Repairing concrete cracks
Grinding the floor with Home Depot grinder
Epoxy floor
Hoping to get all this done before summer.
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