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Hi everyone,
I'd like to take a few sentences to introduce myself. My name is Stone Hughes, I'm 26 years old and live in Macomb county Michigan. I'm a power sports enthusiast, but I do more off road type riding and racing. Dirt bikes and sport ATV's are my preference (Yamaha all the way). My wife and I bought our first home together back in April 2018. The home was built in the city during the 50’s, then in the 70’s it was moved out to the country which is where it’s at now.
We are renovating EVERYTHING as we go along and have done a ton of work already. The garage is coming up soon so I started to take a look on google images for ideas and I see a lot of info posted from the garage journal threads. You guys seem knowledgeable with great information to share, I’m glad I joined. With that being said, I’m looking for some guidance on my new upcoming project.
Some details to start; It’s a 3 car garage with 3 bay doors, attached to the home. I’m OCD and enjoy a clean SIMPLE environment, so in my opinion, the garage condition is pretty rough. The concrete floor is HIT and unleveled in the middle. There was previous water damage in one spot which caused a section 2 FT long by 1 FT wide to fall open in the ceiling. The leak source was fixed but the damaged caused was not repaired. There was a wood stove vent opening cut into the concrete block wall, the hole is still there. There’s another hole that was intentionally cut open in the bottom of a wall, for what reason I have no idea. The walls appear to be plaster which I hate. All of the paint is peeling also. Sections of the cinder block foundation that it sits on was not filed in with cement or concrete so you can see all the way down through them. I’m almost positive I will be replacing all of the garage doors also because their soiled with dirt and torn up. Electrical receptacles are also destroyed.
I’m going for a clean, simple, rustic appearance. The ceiling will be covered up with rusted sheets of tin, as you would see on an old barn roof. The walls are going to be reclaimed knotty barn wood siding. I really like polished concrete, so that’s the idea for the floor right now.
To be upfront, I go out to the garage sometimes and really believe there is no hope for it because it needs so much. I often feel like I made a huge mistake and sometimes regret the purchase. I’ll get a hole in my stomach just looking around, thinking what the hell did I get myself into here. But I’m hoping there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I’d like to get anyone’s input on it when I get the photos up this weekend.
I will not be doing most of the work, as I travel a lot for my career so I will have to hire out most of it. Any input on companies to do the floors n such would be great. I have a close friend that’s a handy man but I don’t think he does concrete.
Anywho, thanks in advance.
-Stone
I'd like to take a few sentences to introduce myself. My name is Stone Hughes, I'm 26 years old and live in Macomb county Michigan. I'm a power sports enthusiast, but I do more off road type riding and racing. Dirt bikes and sport ATV's are my preference (Yamaha all the way). My wife and I bought our first home together back in April 2018. The home was built in the city during the 50’s, then in the 70’s it was moved out to the country which is where it’s at now.
We are renovating EVERYTHING as we go along and have done a ton of work already. The garage is coming up soon so I started to take a look on google images for ideas and I see a lot of info posted from the garage journal threads. You guys seem knowledgeable with great information to share, I’m glad I joined. With that being said, I’m looking for some guidance on my new upcoming project.
Some details to start; It’s a 3 car garage with 3 bay doors, attached to the home. I’m OCD and enjoy a clean SIMPLE environment, so in my opinion, the garage condition is pretty rough. The concrete floor is HIT and unleveled in the middle. There was previous water damage in one spot which caused a section 2 FT long by 1 FT wide to fall open in the ceiling. The leak source was fixed but the damaged caused was not repaired. There was a wood stove vent opening cut into the concrete block wall, the hole is still there. There’s another hole that was intentionally cut open in the bottom of a wall, for what reason I have no idea. The walls appear to be plaster which I hate. All of the paint is peeling also. Sections of the cinder block foundation that it sits on was not filed in with cement or concrete so you can see all the way down through them. I’m almost positive I will be replacing all of the garage doors also because their soiled with dirt and torn up. Electrical receptacles are also destroyed.
I’m going for a clean, simple, rustic appearance. The ceiling will be covered up with rusted sheets of tin, as you would see on an old barn roof. The walls are going to be reclaimed knotty barn wood siding. I really like polished concrete, so that’s the idea for the floor right now.
To be upfront, I go out to the garage sometimes and really believe there is no hope for it because it needs so much. I often feel like I made a huge mistake and sometimes regret the purchase. I’ll get a hole in my stomach just looking around, thinking what the hell did I get myself into here. But I’m hoping there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I’d like to get anyone’s input on it when I get the photos up this weekend.
I will not be doing most of the work, as I travel a lot for my career so I will have to hire out most of it. Any input on companies to do the floors n such would be great. I have a close friend that’s a handy man but I don’t think he does concrete.
Anywho, thanks in advance.
-Stone
