Garage Renovation

[Kinger]

We have been in the house for about a year and a half. Shortly after moving in I threw up the shelves and the workbench to get things somewhat organized. I knew when I did the work that I would probably redo it.

It is a small (32x22) three car garage.

As things were on Monday night.........

Looking at the parking side of the garage.

Looking toward the single stall.

Contents of the third stall. (Notice the cabinets)

Existing workbench area.

The cabinets have got me moving on changing things around. So between last nigth and tonight I cleared out the area and taped and mudded the drywall.

Ready for tape and mud.

First coat of mud on!

I am undecided about the wall that you see between the OH doors. It functions well for holding all the yard tools, but takes up a lot of space.

Thanks for looking. I will update more as I progress this week.

 

[Steve in Mi]

Looking good. Don't forget to put in a few electrical outlets before you enclose all the walls. Is that an electrical feed down near the floor where the bench was?

As for the partial wall, it's nice to have that hang-up space. Seems it would be difficult to give it up.

 

[Kinger]

Looking good. Don't forget to put in a few electrical outlets before you enclose all the walls. Is that an electrical feed down near the floor where the bench was?

As for the partial wall, it's nice to have that hang-up space. Seems it would be difficult to give it up.

Nope, just a really bad patch job on a nicked piece of drywall.

As for electrical, that will come later this year. I want to run a sub panel into the garage. I am only finishing this one corner for now to get the cabinets up.

 

[Kinger]

Here is the plan view of the garage.

You can see the proposed cabinet layout in the corner. I am not sure if I will actually make and L shape or not. I need to layout out and see how it looks. Looks like it will work on paper

 

[JMURiz]

L-shaped looks really nice in the plans.
As for the wall between the 2 and 1 bays...it's nice for hanging stuff, but a lean-to on the opposite side of where the l-shaped cabinets are would be great (if indeed that is an exterior wall)

 

[benjacobs]

I love it. I Haven't seen anyone use AutoCad for renovation plans before. What a great idea. Looks like it's turning out as planned. I like the Buell too

 

[Kinger]

I have been moving slowly forward each night this week. As of tonight I officially have a cabinet hung!

Since I am working alone, mostly at night, I decided to use a cleat to hang the cabinets.

Since I am still saving up for a table saw, I made this jig to cut the cleats. Works great.

When I set the base cabinet in place to check the bench height (always nervous about measurments ), I realized that the floor pitchs almost an inch over the depth of the cabinet.

I hope to get the other four cabinets hung tomorrow night and get started on the base cabinets.

 

[cyclopsblown34]

Keep making progress and try like heck to get it done before you get started on a vehicular project.

 

[C_F]

I like that cleat idea, that's a pretty good way to get an 'extra' set of hands.

 

[Kinger]

Done!

For the most part I am finished. I need to figure out a new top. Decided against the "L" shape. A base cabinet on the L part would have stuck out 15" into the lines of the overhead door. Making it nearly impossible to get a car in.

Now I just need to unpack the stuff that I boxed up and get organized.

 

[indyracer]

Looking good. What is the height from the floor to the top of the counter going to be?

 

[Kinger]

Looking good. What is the height from the floor to the top of the counter going to be?

About 39-40".

 

[V-10 Killer]

That looks great. I think you'll be real happy with it.
I'd thought about doing that, but I have too many big items I need to store under the benches. Drag tires, small snowblowers, lawn chairs.....

 

[Kinger]

That looks great. I think you'll be real happy with it.
I'd thought about doing that, but I have too many big items I need to store under the benches. Drag tires, small snowblowers, lawn chairs.....

Thanks. I am trying to find space for the stuff that was under the workbench before. The biggest one is the shop vac. No good way to store those.

Now if I could just get the bikes, kids toys, and gardening **** out of the way there would be plenty of room!

I think a shed is going on the short list of projects to do. Maybe a lean to as someone suggested.

 

[wrigh003]

Looking really really good. I think when we tear out our kitchen I will have to try to steal the cabinets for my ever-evolving garage/rec area/what-have-you.

That cleat, when you think about it, is really the best way to hang wall cabs for a garage- in addition to being bombproof and reinforced by gravity, the way you have it there gives you all the room you could ever want to fish speaker wires, any electrical (job 1 for me would be to put a plug/power strip in a cabinet to hold all my cordless tool batteries/chargers...), any kind of telecom stuf you want, etc...

 

[snorvet]

I like that cleat idea, that's a pretty good way to get an 'extra' set of hands.

I agree - makes hanging them a lot easier

 

[curlyws6]

Looks Good! I'm hoping to find someone that is gutting a kitchen so I can get my hands on some cabinets to use in my garage. I really want something up high with doors to use as storage.