Redbeard719
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In 2011, our family relocated from a close-together track-home neighborhood to a rural country neighborhood. Lots are larger, we have more trees, and in general, we have more space around us.
Although not a requirement at the time, we ended up purchasing a house that had 4 oversized garages, compared to our old compact 2/1 (3 total) garage spaces.
The layout is really perfect. We have a contiguous 3 car oversized that is where my wife and I park - we also have plenty of space for storing extras in the 3 car.
The 4th garage stall is turned 90* to the side, and is where I keep the motorcycles and is the general shop area. I don't much work on cars, but I do enjoy working on my own Harleys as well as friends.
The vitals:
Until recently, I have been pretty content with the garage. In the 6 years that we've lived here, it's been 'reorganized' several times. Various shelves have come and gone; a more permanent shelf was added up top; a workbench was built, etc. That all changed this year, with the 'encouragement' from a coworker.
Initially I sought out to just paint the garage. It didn't take long for the scope creep to set in, and pretty soon I had a pretty massive list of things I was planning to do.
The list of things that are significant are:
Anyway, time to get to the photos! I don't have any pictures that mark the start of the project, but I did remember to take some early on in the process. They do a good job of showing where I started with this.
The garage was always pretty well organized - I like to keep it clean. These pictures are after I'd starting to clear off my lower workbench shelf and after I'd removed my Ikea kitchen cabinet from the side wall behind the air reel.
The next few photos show more destruction of the workbench...
Beginning to clear out my shelf. Took all the wood pellets for the smoker down to the basement utility room for permanent storage.
This side garage didn't have the garage door opener wiring installed behind the sheetrock. This is after the old opener was down and I started patching the holes in the drywall from the wire staples. Over the years, I had many things attached to the walls, there was lots of drywall holes to fill.
Last winter I ran a new 30A circuit for an electric ceiling mounted heater. In my haste, I cut some holes in the drywall to make pulling the wire easier. I had never really finished repairing it, so I made use of these same access holes to run my data/cable lines, as well as the new 15A circuit I added. Initially this garage had two accessible outlets, plus the center ceiling outlet for the opener. I added 8 more outlets total.
The heater works in that when powered on, the heating element gets hot then the fan turns on. When shut off, the heating element is turned off but the fan goes until it's cooled off. There is a dial thermostat but I didn't want to mess with using that. So, I wired in a heavy duty 30A switch, and switched the thermostat. This way the heating element/fan behavior remains unchanged and I'm not cutting power on an off to the whole heater. That's what the single regular style switch is for - it's to the heater.
It was about this time that my NewAge Pro cabinets showed up. I bought them early, thinking I would be done with the garage more quickly, and because they were on a really good sale. It was an 8 piece package and I added on to it to fill out my space.
There will be:
I'm going to skip the countertop from NewAge and use two Ikea solid oak tops to fill out the 11' bumpout as my workbench surface.
My initial plan was to prep the wall for the cabinets and get them installed, then do the rest of the garage. Soon I decided I should just finish everything first, then put in the cabinets. You can really see how bad the original lighting was in this picture. The garage only had 2 A19 sockets with 100W LED equivalent bulbs. I had put in some T8 shop lights (2 of them) but they were removed to prep the ceiling for painting.
Here, I've gotten the ceiling painted Behr Ultra Pure White, and I have the holes drilled out to pass the electrical wiring through for each fixture. I installed seven 2 bulb T8 direct wire fixtures with no ballast LED light tubes in 5000K. Before painting the ceiling, I laid out the lighting grid using chalk lines and drilled holes for the drywall anchors for the fixtures. I also scored the drywall surface with a 1" holesaw where the electrical wires would pass through. This way I wouldn't have to dirty up the pretty white paint!
Fixtures installed.
Fixtures wired and working! Eventually the old light sockets were removed and I enlarged the holes to install a pair of Polk Audio MC80 in-ceiling speakers. I covered the back of the speakers with batted insulation, and then pushed the blown-in insulation over them. I didn't want to have blown-in insulation clogging up the speakers.
Here I've finished all the major drywall repair and painted the split colors on all four walls. Additionally, I picked up several more 27gal totes from Costco to store all my shelf junk in and keep it looking clean.
As I mentioned before, this is a Harley garage, so I wanted to bring in some Harley colors, without being over-the-top fanboy about it. I didn't want a black and orange garage that was super cliche.
I decided on Behr Greige for the top color, and Behr Greyhound for the bottom color. Splitting the colors would be a stripe of Harley colors. I laid the Behr Black first, then masked off the edges and painted the orange stripe, Behr Japanese Koi. All paint finishes were in eggshell.
The Liquidtite conduit is for the wiring for the heater switch that I mentioned earlier. I re-did the conduit and made it look prettier. Ignore the Liftmaster 8500, I hadn't yet cleaned up the wiring for it.
Previously, my receiver and subwoofer were on the lower shelf of my old workbench. I wanted it somewhere that was out of the way, and didn't require a new shelf. So, I added another outlet behind this spot on the shelf, and added a low voltage plate for the speaker wiring. I also ran an optical (TOSLINK) cable from where the TV will be mounted to the receiver so that the TV can be played through the speakers/sub. In the same low voltage plate I have added speaker posts for the in-ceiling speakers.
With the LED lights being as bright as they are, I added a new cellular blackout blind to prevent them from lighting up my cul-de-sac when I'm working late.
Here is the garage with the wall paint done. All that is left to do is to paint the baseboard and door trim, which will be black. Eventually I want to replace the door slab with a solid door without a window. It will be painted to match the walls.
I also used Legrand Cordmate conduit for the Liftmaster 8500 wiring for the sensors, lock, and control pad. It was painted to match the walls and is nearly unnoticeable.
All wiring into the opener is ran through a single piece of braided cable sleeve to keep it clean looking.
Since these photos were taken, I've drilled out the holes for the hot/cold hose bibb on the wall near the personnel door. I'll be putting up a sheet of steel (maybe diamond plate) to cover the wall around the hose bibb, and trimming it out with base too.
The last big thing is the epoxy floor coating, which will be completed in about 10 days. They'll be doing the stem walls too, complete with flaking. After that, I'll paint the trim, hang the cabinets and then move everything over to this garage to prepare my 3 car for epoxy coating. I'll most likely start a new thread for that project...
Thanks for reading! More photos to come as the project is completed! Any questions or suggestions are welcome!
Although not a requirement at the time, we ended up purchasing a house that had 4 oversized garages, compared to our old compact 2/1 (3 total) garage spaces.
The layout is really perfect. We have a contiguous 3 car oversized that is where my wife and I park - we also have plenty of space for storing extras in the 3 car.
The 4th garage stall is turned 90* to the side, and is where I keep the motorcycles and is the general shop area. I don't much work on cars, but I do enjoy working on my own Harleys as well as friends.
The vitals:
- 22'x14'
- 11'x16" bumpout along the far side wall which has a 70.5"x70.5" window
- 10.5' ceiling height
- 8'x9' garage door
- Fully insulated, drywalled, textured and painted
- HVAC through a 4"x10" vent attached to the central duct-work
Until recently, I have been pretty content with the garage. In the 6 years that we've lived here, it's been 'reorganized' several times. Various shelves have come and gone; a more permanent shelf was added up top; a workbench was built, etc. That all changed this year, with the 'encouragement' from a coworker.
Initially I sought out to just paint the garage. It didn't take long for the scope creep to set in, and pretty soon I had a pretty massive list of things I was planning to do.
The list of things that are significant are:
- Paint (as you'll see in the photos, the paint included several colors, and the ceiling too)
- Hot/Cold Hose Bibb
- NewAge Pro Garage Cabinets
- Adding a new electrical circuit with 8 new outlets
- Adding Data/Cable lines
- Replacing all outlets with new color in decora style
- Drywall repair
- New window coverings
- New lighting
- Liftmaster 8500
- In-Ceiling speakers
- Epoxy floor coating
Anyway, time to get to the photos! I don't have any pictures that mark the start of the project, but I did remember to take some early on in the process. They do a good job of showing where I started with this.
The garage was always pretty well organized - I like to keep it clean. These pictures are after I'd starting to clear off my lower workbench shelf and after I'd removed my Ikea kitchen cabinet from the side wall behind the air reel.
The next few photos show more destruction of the workbench...
Beginning to clear out my shelf. Took all the wood pellets for the smoker down to the basement utility room for permanent storage.
This side garage didn't have the garage door opener wiring installed behind the sheetrock. This is after the old opener was down and I started patching the holes in the drywall from the wire staples. Over the years, I had many things attached to the walls, there was lots of drywall holes to fill.
Last winter I ran a new 30A circuit for an electric ceiling mounted heater. In my haste, I cut some holes in the drywall to make pulling the wire easier. I had never really finished repairing it, so I made use of these same access holes to run my data/cable lines, as well as the new 15A circuit I added. Initially this garage had two accessible outlets, plus the center ceiling outlet for the opener. I added 8 more outlets total.
The heater works in that when powered on, the heating element gets hot then the fan turns on. When shut off, the heating element is turned off but the fan goes until it's cooled off. There is a dial thermostat but I didn't want to mess with using that. So, I wired in a heavy duty 30A switch, and switched the thermostat. This way the heating element/fan behavior remains unchanged and I'm not cutting power on an off to the whole heater. That's what the single regular style switch is for - it's to the heater.
It was about this time that my NewAge Pro cabinets showed up. I bought them early, thinking I would be done with the garage more quickly, and because they were on a really good sale. It was an 8 piece package and I added on to it to fill out my space.
There will be:
- 3 overhead cabinets
- 2 80" lockers
- 3 tool chest cabinets
- 1 split cabinet with trashcan and parts organizer
- 84" Bamboo top
I'm going to skip the countertop from NewAge and use two Ikea solid oak tops to fill out the 11' bumpout as my workbench surface.
My initial plan was to prep the wall for the cabinets and get them installed, then do the rest of the garage. Soon I decided I should just finish everything first, then put in the cabinets. You can really see how bad the original lighting was in this picture. The garage only had 2 A19 sockets with 100W LED equivalent bulbs. I had put in some T8 shop lights (2 of them) but they were removed to prep the ceiling for painting.
Here, I've gotten the ceiling painted Behr Ultra Pure White, and I have the holes drilled out to pass the electrical wiring through for each fixture. I installed seven 2 bulb T8 direct wire fixtures with no ballast LED light tubes in 5000K. Before painting the ceiling, I laid out the lighting grid using chalk lines and drilled holes for the drywall anchors for the fixtures. I also scored the drywall surface with a 1" holesaw where the electrical wires would pass through. This way I wouldn't have to dirty up the pretty white paint!
Fixtures installed.
Fixtures wired and working! Eventually the old light sockets were removed and I enlarged the holes to install a pair of Polk Audio MC80 in-ceiling speakers. I covered the back of the speakers with batted insulation, and then pushed the blown-in insulation over them. I didn't want to have blown-in insulation clogging up the speakers.
Here I've finished all the major drywall repair and painted the split colors on all four walls. Additionally, I picked up several more 27gal totes from Costco to store all my shelf junk in and keep it looking clean.
As I mentioned before, this is a Harley garage, so I wanted to bring in some Harley colors, without being over-the-top fanboy about it. I didn't want a black and orange garage that was super cliche.
I decided on Behr Greige for the top color, and Behr Greyhound for the bottom color. Splitting the colors would be a stripe of Harley colors. I laid the Behr Black first, then masked off the edges and painted the orange stripe, Behr Japanese Koi. All paint finishes were in eggshell.
The Liquidtite conduit is for the wiring for the heater switch that I mentioned earlier. I re-did the conduit and made it look prettier. Ignore the Liftmaster 8500, I hadn't yet cleaned up the wiring for it.
Previously, my receiver and subwoofer were on the lower shelf of my old workbench. I wanted it somewhere that was out of the way, and didn't require a new shelf. So, I added another outlet behind this spot on the shelf, and added a low voltage plate for the speaker wiring. I also ran an optical (TOSLINK) cable from where the TV will be mounted to the receiver so that the TV can be played through the speakers/sub. In the same low voltage plate I have added speaker posts for the in-ceiling speakers.
With the LED lights being as bright as they are, I added a new cellular blackout blind to prevent them from lighting up my cul-de-sac when I'm working late.
Here is the garage with the wall paint done. All that is left to do is to paint the baseboard and door trim, which will be black. Eventually I want to replace the door slab with a solid door without a window. It will be painted to match the walls.
I also used Legrand Cordmate conduit for the Liftmaster 8500 wiring for the sensors, lock, and control pad. It was painted to match the walls and is nearly unnoticeable.
All wiring into the opener is ran through a single piece of braided cable sleeve to keep it clean looking.
Since these photos were taken, I've drilled out the holes for the hot/cold hose bibb on the wall near the personnel door. I'll be putting up a sheet of steel (maybe diamond plate) to cover the wall around the hose bibb, and trimming it out with base too.
The last big thing is the epoxy floor coating, which will be completed in about 10 days. They'll be doing the stem walls too, complete with flaking. After that, I'll paint the trim, hang the cabinets and then move everything over to this garage to prepare my 3 car for epoxy coating. I'll most likely start a new thread for that project...
Thanks for reading! More photos to come as the project is completed! Any questions or suggestions are welcome!