Howdy folks! I did my obligatory introduction earlier, but now it's time to introduce my garage. By no means is it as fancy as some of the beauties here, but it's what I have and I make the most of it.
The unit is a detached 3 car wide with extension and a single door on the back side.
Here is the picture from the original seller's listing back in 2011.
I didn't buy the home from the original owner, but apparently he was an engineer and did a lot of customization to the house and garage during its construction. The home was built in 1997, but it is fully wired for cat5 and audio with 2 network drops per room. There's one in the garage as well which I have connected to a wireless access point so I can get wifi in the garage. He even went so far as to run a network cable to a port above the front door which saved me a lot of hassle of cabling to install a network security camera. The garage door is 1 section taller than most garages and the doors themselves are insulated which is a rarity in Houston. Inside, the walls and ceiling have been fully finished with plywood and fluorescent lighting has been placed liberally throughout. There is a fold down door to the fully decked attic space with plenty of extra storage. The previous owners had installed some cheap Ikea shelving which has been useful, but I'd like to eventually replace them with some enclosed units.
My first project that I undertook after moving in was the garage floor. I decided to do the flooring in two sections, left and right. I moved all the junk to the right side of the garage and started with a nice pressure wash.
Here's all our junk pushed to one side. Any guesses on what the car is?
Now here's where I messed up. I purchased 4 kits and each kit is supposed to cover 250 sq feet. I sectioned the garage off at the 15' mark with blue tape and mixed up the first kit to start. What I should have done was to mix both kits at the same time to do everything at once because it turns out that the color didn't quite match from kit to kit.
I thought the color wasn't matching because the paint was drier on the first kit and figured it would all match after everything finished drying, but that turned out not to be the case. You can see some of the lighter patches where I went back and put on more paint in the lighter coverage areas from the first kit.
That's pretty much all I've done to the garage since 2011 aside from putting in more junk. At least until this year. I'll probably end up with a third shade on the right side of the garage when I get around to doing it but I can live with it. That's all I have time to post now, but I'll add onto this as I have more time.
The unit is a detached 3 car wide with extension and a single door on the back side.
Here is the picture from the original seller's listing back in 2011.
I didn't buy the home from the original owner, but apparently he was an engineer and did a lot of customization to the house and garage during its construction. The home was built in 1997, but it is fully wired for cat5 and audio with 2 network drops per room. There's one in the garage as well which I have connected to a wireless access point so I can get wifi in the garage. He even went so far as to run a network cable to a port above the front door which saved me a lot of hassle of cabling to install a network security camera. The garage door is 1 section taller than most garages and the doors themselves are insulated which is a rarity in Houston. Inside, the walls and ceiling have been fully finished with plywood and fluorescent lighting has been placed liberally throughout. There is a fold down door to the fully decked attic space with plenty of extra storage. The previous owners had installed some cheap Ikea shelving which has been useful, but I'd like to eventually replace them with some enclosed units.
My first project that I undertook after moving in was the garage floor. I decided to do the flooring in two sections, left and right. I moved all the junk to the right side of the garage and started with a nice pressure wash.
Here's all our junk pushed to one side. Any guesses on what the car is?
Now here's where I messed up. I purchased 4 kits and each kit is supposed to cover 250 sq feet. I sectioned the garage off at the 15' mark with blue tape and mixed up the first kit to start. What I should have done was to mix both kits at the same time to do everything at once because it turns out that the color didn't quite match from kit to kit.
I thought the color wasn't matching because the paint was drier on the first kit and figured it would all match after everything finished drying, but that turned out not to be the case. You can see some of the lighter patches where I went back and put on more paint in the lighter coverage areas from the first kit.
That's pretty much all I've done to the garage since 2011 aside from putting in more junk. At least until this year. I'll probably end up with a third shade on the right side of the garage when I get around to doing it but I can live with it. That's all I have time to post now, but I'll add onto this as I have more time.
