Garage TV's

[RonBou]

I started with a 20 incher and added a Sony surround sound system (which has a built in FM stereo radio, plays CDs, JPEGs). Later I added an LG 37 inch LCD unit and switched the surround sound to it. I kept the 20 inch TV because it is mounted over my treadmill. Sometimes I watch an old tape while walking. The TVs keep me company when I am tinkering in the garage. I also host Red Sox Yankee games in the garage. Good company and plenty of food.

 

[Dogberry01]

It is really nice to have gatherings in the garage most of the time for the race. Drop or spill whatever you want easy cleanup just use the hose.

 

[autoist]

There's a 20" up in a corner of my shop - primarily to listen to FOX News:

& a 32" in the garage itself:

with a new 37" HD in a box awaiting installation.

 

[Dogberry01]

autoist nice setup. what size is the garage?

 

[autoist]

Plus the upstairs studio apartment/gameroom that's under construction right now:

Sketches not to scale.

 

[rickairmedic]

I have a 36" in the corner on the workbench at somepoint when other projects allow time I will build a steel shelf for it in the corner above the bench.

Rick

 

[realred2]

My G/f just told me she wanted a 42-46" LCD in the garage...I have such a nice G/f.

She has a large family so if everyone is over we are going to be taking up 3 large rooms. Living room, Basement (home theater room), and Garage. And need a TV for each one.

 

[JebNY]

A lot of you guys have bigger and fancier TV systems in your garage than I have in my living room.

I have 16" B&W on a high shelf that will be on the curb after the digital switch over, since a converter box would be a wast on it. I seldom use it anyway and usually just turn on my yard sale stereo.

Jeb

 

[hobie1dog]

Just painted my wall for a 110 inch projection screen in my garage.

Will look like this one in my Great Room

 

[e-tek]

It hasn't been an issue for me. However, I don't put expensive tv's out there, so it isn't a big deal if something does happen. I built mine into my washer/dryer closet, as I have little wall space elsewhere.

I think that's the first time I recall seeing your shop Nissan! Let's see the rest of it!!

I just keep wiping the TV off!!! LOL.DR.

Yup - that;s what I have to do!!

My friends say I did just this just to be a jerk 50"

Great shop!!! What is all that equipment and what do you work on? Do you have a garage thread going on?? Thanks!

Remember to keep a remote in the car. That way you can watch a few more minutes of the game while waiting for the wife.

Brilliant Sammer - just brilliant!!

Just painted my wall for a 110 inch projection screen in my garage.

But why did you just paint where the TV is going?!?!?


I have an OLD 19" - it was Mrs. E-tek's when she was single. Only time it's on is on winter weekend mornings for POWERBLOCK.

 

[IH82BL8]

I have a TV in my garage so that on Sunday afternoons while I'm watching racing I can get some work done on my cars. It's my version of multi-tasking.

 

[hobie1dog]

Got the velvet border up so now the projection screen is finished.

 

[nate379]

Did you paint that Washer and Dryer? My folks used to have a set just like that. Kenmore from around 1988-1989. They were white though. My brother still has the washer even. Talk about some TOUGH equipment! Lots of undies cleaned in them!

It hasn't been an issue for me. However, I don't put expensive tv's out there, so it isn't a big deal if something does happen. I built mine into my washer/dryer closet, as I have little wall space elsewhere.

 

[hobie1dog]

Got my lights in above the screen finally working.

The bass cabinet is on a carpeted dolly for now but you can get an idea of what it will be like when it is resting on furniture sliders.

 

[autoist]

Just added a 3rd TV to my garage complex....this 37" HD flat screen is hooked up to a Sony surround sound home theater & is in the gameroom we're building over the garage.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I have a little 13 color that was a freebie a friend gave me. Mine is a real old RCA with a crude remote. I did put the converter on it with the digital switch and it is great, good color, and the reception is now as good as cable! I don't really use it much though, I turn it on around 5:00 to catch the evening news if I am tinkering or something but that is about all. Keep in mind though I only have the cost of the converter in mine, nothing more.

 

[msom22]

Just got done installing a 100" pull down screen with a projector in my garage. Was roughly the same cost as a 40" flat screen and don't have to worry about someone knocking it over.

 

[jj3]

Here´s mine, just a cheap 32 from Best Buy. Between my wife and her friends and my daughter and her friends I had to have something out here to watch sports.
I just mounted it on top of the cabinets and tweaked the angle a bit for easier viewing if I have the guys over for a game and we´re sitting.

 

[djd99]

Got my lights in above the screen finally working.

The bass cabinet is on a carpeted dolly for now but you can get an idea of what it will be like when it is resting on furniture sliders.

That is awesome but I don't think any work would ever get done, Id rather have that in my gameroom.

 

[e-tek]

Hey E46M3 - get your post outta here - it's for GARAGE TV's!!! Your car is in your LIVING room!!

 

[bochnak]

For those of you with flat panels and in need of a mount:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=109&cp_id=10828

Can't beat prices on mounts, cables, etc...

 

[Gary S]

I don't get it? Why need a TV in the garage?

I agree. No TV allowed in my garage. In fact, since the switch to digital TV, my Wife wants to replace the TV in the house with an old fashioned bookcase.

 

[bochnak]

I agree. No TV allowed in my garage. In fact, since the switch to digital TV, my Wife wants to replace the TV in the house with an old fashioned bookcase.

We only have 1 tv in the house. 52" in the living room

I don't have 1 in the garage. The garage is for cranking up tunes and pounding

 

[1Garageman]

I have a 20inch hanging of the wall with surround sound, sorry no pictures. But I'm upgrading to a 36inch flat screen this summer.....wife will hate it..........oh-well

I've only been married a year. Tell me your secret into getting the wife to let you get a bigger TV??

 

[rieferman]

My garage is for working not watching TV!

Oh, wait.. I have a barn instead of a garage, so I'm exempt Here's the "office" (currently a mini-rec room) just outside my workshop space.

 

[blackice]

heres the TV mount I built for my dads shop last winter

 

[rwhite692]

I don't get it? Why need a TV in the garage?

There are plenty of times when I would like to catch up on the news, or there is a race on, etc, and just having it playing in the background while I work is nice, I can always look up from what I'm doing if I want to check it out...or take a break and have a beer, etc.

Another thing is that if I am watching the kids, and have my three and a half year old daughter with me out in the garage, she can watch something.

I will be replacing the 50" plasma in the house pretty soon, so I can't wait to retire that to the garage wall.

 

[10.5 outlaw]

Something like this

 

[foss]

I mounted one under the mezzanine. A 42" that is great when buddies drop over for a hockey game and beer.

 

[foss]

By the way Outlaw, that is one kewl garage!!

 

[foss]

I've only been married a year. Tell me your secret into getting the wife to let you get a bigger TV??

If it's going to be a problem, you better not let her in on the secret...

 

[ZRX61]

I don't get it? Why need a TV in the garage?

So you can listen to the race while working of your stuff etc

 

[tkrum5]

Just a small 13" in the corner mounted on a swivel that is mounted on a 2x6. Looking to redo to a 32" or a flat screen when the weather breaks so I can redo the garage.

Nice shop Kevin I have the same door stop.