Well, I posted in the introduction area and mentioned starting something to document and discuss my journey of creating my dream garage.
To start, my wife and I moved from the city out to a rural home that was recently built in 2011. It literally sits in the middle of the woods. I'm an outdoorsy person so it's like living in a little piece of heaven. For the wife, city girl raised in Virginia Beach her whole life, she's adjusting
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This was a big step up for us. We're in our mid 30's and moved from our starter home, a 1350sqft ranch house built in 1958 that was about as basic as you can get. I'm a car guy and very mechanical, both of my grandfathers were machinists, my father a 40yr veteran mechanic, my brother a machinist. I was suffering in our first home. No garage, and not even a shed when we bought it. I had an engine lift and tons of other tools and large items stored in a little 10x12 shed I built.
Fast forward to December of 2015. We closed just before Christmas on a beautiful 2600sqft home with an excellent, unfinished on the inside, two car detached garage. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12299227_10205254944921869_8023422434613851758_n.jpg?oh=7219e69155bc8c9e40356c330df5e5c1&oe=57B3E3CB
I'm beginning to finish off the inside of the garage. It's a bit of a slower process than I'd like, doing all the work myself. So I started hanging drywall on the back wall. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12654639_10205664993332823_5025199427582760852_n.jpg?oh=30c9542ffb255f8ae84588ec1da08260&oe=578363ED
Then my brother came down from Ohio and brought me a few cabinets. We've only been in the house a few months. I desperately need storage and organization space. All of my things are in the middle of the garage floor in boxes, etc.. I quickly hung more drywall and we hung the few cabinets he brought https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12993611_10206196126770827_2957654768655706633_n.jpg?oh=9730a3a37bc4c413272bd42485ff4bbc&oe=577433DE
While my brother was visiting, we insulated and hung more drywall on the right hand side so the whole garage is nearly 80% complete, minus finishing all the seems. I travel for work, so my schedule is necessitating doing a few things out of order on this. I'll have to play catch up on the spackle and tape work before painting. I decided to start building my workbench in the back left corner.https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12994569_10206196127370842_5497897032045593167_n.jpg?oh=4cf7932578aac50b4248ce74fa682f8d&oe=57AB7160
For the bench, I bought Lowe's higher grade 2x4's and the Stain Grade countertop wood for the bench top. I plan to stain it and coat with Polyurethane.
Hopefully I can get everything set up the way I want before the Fall. The right hand side of the garage will have a permanent resident getting a full restoration performed. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/1070008_421029341346624_1886556655_n.jpg?oh=cd8b5c3870f340916fea9f6f35034d05&oe=57BB8C73
That's all I've got for now. I'm basically just getting this kicked off and I'll add photos as I progress. Two things I'm currently contemplating are #1, how I'm going to insulate and finish the ceiling, I don't want the work of drywall up there. #2 how I'm going to finish the floor if at all. I know I'm going to be doing things that will be hard on the concrete (oil and chemical spills naturally happen over time when working on things). So I'll be hunting around this site for ideas.
More to follow... Cheers
Mike
To start, my wife and I moved from the city out to a rural home that was recently built in 2011. It literally sits in the middle of the woods. I'm an outdoorsy person so it's like living in a little piece of heaven. For the wife, city girl raised in Virginia Beach her whole life, she's adjusting
. This was a big step up for us. We're in our mid 30's and moved from our starter home, a 1350sqft ranch house built in 1958 that was about as basic as you can get. I'm a car guy and very mechanical, both of my grandfathers were machinists, my father a 40yr veteran mechanic, my brother a machinist. I was suffering in our first home. No garage, and not even a shed when we bought it. I had an engine lift and tons of other tools and large items stored in a little 10x12 shed I built.
Fast forward to December of 2015. We closed just before Christmas on a beautiful 2600sqft home with an excellent, unfinished on the inside, two car detached garage. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12299227_10205254944921869_8023422434613851758_n.jpg?oh=7219e69155bc8c9e40356c330df5e5c1&oe=57B3E3CB
I'm beginning to finish off the inside of the garage. It's a bit of a slower process than I'd like, doing all the work myself. So I started hanging drywall on the back wall. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12654639_10205664993332823_5025199427582760852_n.jpg?oh=30c9542ffb255f8ae84588ec1da08260&oe=578363ED
Then my brother came down from Ohio and brought me a few cabinets. We've only been in the house a few months. I desperately need storage and organization space. All of my things are in the middle of the garage floor in boxes, etc.. I quickly hung more drywall and we hung the few cabinets he brought https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/t1.0-9/12993611_10206196126770827_2957654768655706633_n.jpg?oh=9730a3a37bc4c413272bd42485ff4bbc&oe=577433DE
While my brother was visiting, we insulated and hung more drywall on the right hand side so the whole garage is nearly 80% complete, minus finishing all the seems. I travel for work, so my schedule is necessitating doing a few things out of order on this. I'll have to play catch up on the spackle and tape work before painting. I decided to start building my workbench in the back left corner.https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/12994569_10206196127370842_5497897032045593167_n.jpg?oh=4cf7932578aac50b4248ce74fa682f8d&oe=57AB7160
For the bench, I bought Lowe's higher grade 2x4's and the Stain Grade countertop wood for the bench top. I plan to stain it and coat with Polyurethane.
Hopefully I can get everything set up the way I want before the Fall. The right hand side of the garage will have a permanent resident getting a full restoration performed. https://scontent.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/v/t1.0-9/1070008_421029341346624_1886556655_n.jpg?oh=cd8b5c3870f340916fea9f6f35034d05&oe=57BB8C73
That's all I've got for now. I'm basically just getting this kicked off and I'll add photos as I progress. Two things I'm currently contemplating are #1, how I'm going to insulate and finish the ceiling, I don't want the work of drywall up there. #2 how I'm going to finish the floor if at all. I know I'm going to be doing things that will be hard on the concrete (oil and chemical spills naturally happen over time when working on things). So I'll be hunting around this site for ideas.
More to follow... Cheers
Mike
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