It finally happened! I purchased my first garage, with an attached house! Over the summer I graduated college, and moved from Charlotte down to just outside of Augusta, GA for my first real engineering job. I have now been in the house for about 6 months, and exactly as I had NOT planned, have done very little work to the garage. This will all be changing as soon as I finish up 2 little projects. I am currently installing a hot tub, and building a deck around it, and doing a rear end swap on my 91 z28.
This is the garage, 20X23 attached. Not the largest, but big enough to serve my needs for the time being. The original plan was to coat the floors before even moving in, but as you can tell from later pictures, that didn't happen due to scheduling.
This was the week after moving in. As you can tell, floors have not been painted, but the garage is filling up fast. The toolbox on the left I used for the past several years at my college job as a paintball technician sitting on top of the counter I claimed as my workbench. I needed to get something to put it on besides the steel table, so off to lowes for the matching lower box.
And the beautiful view out of my door. 91 z28 in front of my lifted 05 4Runner.
As the garage sits today. I have upgraded the lighting to 2 4' T8 fixtures with 6500k bulbs. The original plan was LEDs, but these are both brighter and cheaper. Not many cold start issues in GA either. I am contemplating getting rid of the old pegboard on the back of the work bench, and going with something a bit cleaner, but it is something I built with my grandpa, who is no longer with us, 20 years ago.
On this side of the garage, I plan to build floor to ceiling storage of some sorts, complete with doors to keep all the dust out of the clutter, and the clutter out of view. Was thinking metal cabinets, but would rather something custom. However metal cabinets are still not totally off the table. The plastic shelf I was given a few months before moving in. It had been a life saver for now until I get my storage complete. The metal cabinet behind that (currently full of spray paint and automotive fluids) was given to me by my next door neighbor who moved out the week after I moved in.
This side is just a mess. Plans are to box in the hot water heater, and make a bike rack. I also may add a door to get to my side "parking lot" area. Where a lot of work takes place. Pictures of that to follow, it is one of the things I fell in love with about the house. But for some reason photo bucket won't let me upload it right now.
Now for my first tool haul in the new garage. Went to look at a $100 hot tub on crsigslist, and ended up coming home with this, and a wheelbarrow. Riobi table saw, snap on green hard handle ratchet, huge Mac ratchet, Snap on deep metric 3/8 socket set, Mac universal socket set, Mac crows foot wrench set, assorted universals, adapters, sockets of different brands (mostly Snap on and Mac), and near new skill router. All for $45
Hopefully this weekend I will have time to finish the breaks on 'maro if I can get them figured out, and then best weekend will be time to work on the hot tub again.
This is the garage, 20X23 attached. Not the largest, but big enough to serve my needs for the time being. The original plan was to coat the floors before even moving in, but as you can tell from later pictures, that didn't happen due to scheduling.
This was the week after moving in. As you can tell, floors have not been painted, but the garage is filling up fast. The toolbox on the left I used for the past several years at my college job as a paintball technician sitting on top of the counter I claimed as my workbench. I needed to get something to put it on besides the steel table, so off to lowes for the matching lower box.
And the beautiful view out of my door. 91 z28 in front of my lifted 05 4Runner.
As the garage sits today. I have upgraded the lighting to 2 4' T8 fixtures with 6500k bulbs. The original plan was LEDs, but these are both brighter and cheaper. Not many cold start issues in GA either. I am contemplating getting rid of the old pegboard on the back of the work bench, and going with something a bit cleaner, but it is something I built with my grandpa, who is no longer with us, 20 years ago.
On this side of the garage, I plan to build floor to ceiling storage of some sorts, complete with doors to keep all the dust out of the clutter, and the clutter out of view. Was thinking metal cabinets, but would rather something custom. However metal cabinets are still not totally off the table. The plastic shelf I was given a few months before moving in. It had been a life saver for now until I get my storage complete. The metal cabinet behind that (currently full of spray paint and automotive fluids) was given to me by my next door neighbor who moved out the week after I moved in.
This side is just a mess. Plans are to box in the hot water heater, and make a bike rack. I also may add a door to get to my side "parking lot" area. Where a lot of work takes place. Pictures of that to follow, it is one of the things I fell in love with about the house. But for some reason photo bucket won't let me upload it right now.
Now for my first tool haul in the new garage. Went to look at a $100 hot tub on crsigslist, and ended up coming home with this, and a wheelbarrow. Riobi table saw, snap on green hard handle ratchet, huge Mac ratchet, Snap on deep metric 3/8 socket set, Mac universal socket set, Mac crows foot wrench set, assorted universals, adapters, sockets of different brands (mostly Snap on and Mac), and near new skill router. All for $45
Hopefully this weekend I will have time to finish the breaks on 'maro if I can get them figured out, and then best weekend will be time to work on the hot tub again.
