Hey everybody. Looking around here has been a new addiction for me. Hopefully I'll be able to get a lot of sweet ideas and motivation to take my little garage and turn it into something more useable. Here are some photos from before I moved in (still has the previous owner's stuff in it)...
Now its filled with a bunch of junk. I think step one is going to have to be getting a shed so I can move everything out and paint and finish up some drywall work.
The floor was sagging above the garage, so I had to have this beam installed...I need to finish up drywall work and stuff from that...
These are the most recent photos I have. I had to take a shelf down for the beam installation. This was right after I was able to do a little bit of drywall work and put that shelf back up (its right above the toolbox in the first photo). I had the toolbox under the stairs before. I moved it to under that shelf because there is a lot better lighting over there.
That little bit created a lot more room to get around in there with the two bikes.
You may be wondering about the big wood things wedging the man door closed. Those are stands for my bike. I'm currently using them to keep that door closed because I installed stupid door handles that still turn from the inside even when they're locked. So about a month or so after I moved in, I locked myself out of the house. I hadn't hidden a key yet and the closest spare was about an hour away. It was about 12 degress out and I was in a hoodie. So I had to kick that door in. I have another door to replace it. I just haven't gotten a chance to do it with other projects around the house plus the fact that I have too much stuff to try to leave a path open to get to that door.
I'm planning to build a workbench and storage along the wall in the left of that last picture where the desk is. I'm hoping to build some sort of storage underneath the stairs and some more work space between the man door and the garage door. There is little foam "insulation" on the ceiling and the outside wall there. That is all going to have to come down. It is glued on, so there will be quite a bit of drywall repair to make the paint look ok. Then I will probably spray insulation in the ceiling. I'm hoping to put a compressor in the shed and run a line into the garage and have a couple of hook ups for it.
Thats all I can think of for right now. Its going to be a lot of work. But hopefully worth it in the long run.
Now its filled with a bunch of junk. I think step one is going to have to be getting a shed so I can move everything out and paint and finish up some drywall work.
The floor was sagging above the garage, so I had to have this beam installed...I need to finish up drywall work and stuff from that...
These are the most recent photos I have. I had to take a shelf down for the beam installation. This was right after I was able to do a little bit of drywall work and put that shelf back up (its right above the toolbox in the first photo). I had the toolbox under the stairs before. I moved it to under that shelf because there is a lot better lighting over there.
That little bit created a lot more room to get around in there with the two bikes.
You may be wondering about the big wood things wedging the man door closed. Those are stands for my bike. I'm currently using them to keep that door closed because I installed stupid door handles that still turn from the inside even when they're locked. So about a month or so after I moved in, I locked myself out of the house. I hadn't hidden a key yet and the closest spare was about an hour away. It was about 12 degress out and I was in a hoodie. So I had to kick that door in. I have another door to replace it. I just haven't gotten a chance to do it with other projects around the house plus the fact that I have too much stuff to try to leave a path open to get to that door.
I'm planning to build a workbench and storage along the wall in the left of that last picture where the desk is. I'm hoping to build some sort of storage underneath the stairs and some more work space between the man door and the garage door. There is little foam "insulation" on the ceiling and the outside wall there. That is all going to have to come down. It is glued on, so there will be quite a bit of drywall repair to make the paint look ok. Then I will probably spray insulation in the ceiling. I'm hoping to put a compressor in the shed and run a line into the garage and have a couple of hook ups for it.
Thats all I can think of for right now. Its going to be a lot of work. But hopefully worth it in the long run.
