mike_81
Well-known member
Sorry ladies, Single as in Garage!
Lurking for about a month now here, reading as much as I can. Kudos to Dubber for doing most of the single car garage digging for me!
Been in this house for a numbers of years (6 now) and was bought new. Our focus has been on upgrading the interior and adding some personalization to the place since builders rarely add anything resembling colour in a new build.
Well the time has come to do what *I* want to do in the garage. Here's my canvas.
I'ts a single car, roughly 10x20 attached at both sides to my and a neighbours townhouse.
the pile of wood on the left is free bee's. i searched Kijiji for sources of scrap wood and was able to come across enough to build my own bench.
I have already done some organizing, by use of recycling our old master closet. About a year ago we installed built in's into our closet and i re-purposed the old stuff for the garage one afternoon.
Eventually this will get replaced with cabinets.
Here's the current bench. Not much to say about it, its cheap and will be replaced by something much more functional shortly.
As in every small garage, floor space is at a premium. I have some plans that should increase the available space but nothing permanent can remain on ground level. Being in a town house with 2 cars already when our kids are old enough for their own vehicles the garage will have to house one of those.
So here's the plan of attack:
1. Paint. White is the likely winner here for adding "space" and light.
2. Lighting. I picked up two 4' doubler T8 Lithonia plugin fixtures from the big Orange a few weeks back. Got them for $7.50ea, just add bulbs. this should give me enough light.
3. Electrical Outlets. I'm thinking of converting the two wall fixtures to extended surface mounts and then using surface conduit to add outlets around the back and right wall.
4. Bench. I will be building a small L-shaped bench in the right rear corner. the section that comes towards the front of the garage will have a drop down for the miter saw so I can get the stand up and out of the way for day to day. Eventually upper cabinets will go above it. Stereo will remain but be relocated.
5. The closet parts will be replaced with cabinets as well. the $99 truck load event at HD is a good source for cheap cabinets.
6. Let's be honest here, these things are never complete!
Lurking for about a month now here, reading as much as I can. Kudos to Dubber for doing most of the single car garage digging for me!
Been in this house for a numbers of years (6 now) and was bought new. Our focus has been on upgrading the interior and adding some personalization to the place since builders rarely add anything resembling colour in a new build.
Well the time has come to do what *I* want to do in the garage. Here's my canvas.
I'ts a single car, roughly 10x20 attached at both sides to my and a neighbours townhouse.
the pile of wood on the left is free bee's. i searched Kijiji for sources of scrap wood and was able to come across enough to build my own bench.
I have already done some organizing, by use of recycling our old master closet. About a year ago we installed built in's into our closet and i re-purposed the old stuff for the garage one afternoon.
Eventually this will get replaced with cabinets.
Here's the current bench. Not much to say about it, its cheap and will be replaced by something much more functional shortly.
As in every small garage, floor space is at a premium. I have some plans that should increase the available space but nothing permanent can remain on ground level. Being in a town house with 2 cars already when our kids are old enough for their own vehicles the garage will have to house one of those.
So here's the plan of attack:
1. Paint. White is the likely winner here for adding "space" and light.
2. Lighting. I picked up two 4' doubler T8 Lithonia plugin fixtures from the big Orange a few weeks back. Got them for $7.50ea, just add bulbs. this should give me enough light.
3. Electrical Outlets. I'm thinking of converting the two wall fixtures to extended surface mounts and then using surface conduit to add outlets around the back and right wall.
4. Bench. I will be building a small L-shaped bench in the right rear corner. the section that comes towards the front of the garage will have a drop down for the miter saw so I can get the stand up and out of the way for day to day. Eventually upper cabinets will go above it. Stereo will remain but be relocated.
5. The closet parts will be replaced with cabinets as well. the $99 truck load event at HD is a good source for cheap cabinets.
6. Let's be honest here, these things are never complete!
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I took some spare time and organized the peg board. Its likely not in its final organizational state (are they ever?).
