jmlcolorado
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I finally did something to my garage to make it worth it to show off.
As the tile says, I have a rather difficult case of ADHD. This leads to multiple projects, in multiple stages of completion.
This means most of the time, you can't see the walls, and sometimes, even the floor.
If gravity wasn't a problem, the ceiling would be covered in more **** too. Guess I have one thing going from me.
One thing I've never really understood is a crisp clean garage, all painted fancy with actually trim around windows, and still be a working garage. However, that opinion has changed since my time with GJ. I've seen lots of beautiful garages here, with guys who truly work out of them. I always thought that if you worked in your garage, it was supposed to be dirty and messy.
The more and more that I'm spending my nights viewing all the fantastic work folks have out into their garages, the more I want that for myself. Heck, I'm even thinking of tile now!
This started out as the need to add a few outlets. I wired in a 100 amp sub panel when we bought the house, so I could get the compressor and welder running, but that's as far as I've gone with it. Basically ALL my work has come from 1 ceiling mounted cord reel plugged into the garage door opener outlet. It works great, but can get frustrating grinding, then drilling, then grinding again all whole moving cords.
Anyways, here's where I started.
I this one, you can see the sub panel by the door. Compressor is also buried back in that corner too.
This is from a few months ago when I started yet another project bike.
Last week I decided to jump on getting the shed cleaned out and organized. It's a 8x12 that stores the lawn equipment. I knew after some measuring that I could put more square footage of shelving in the shed if I moved the doors. So I did that one night after work.
Got the top shelf in the garage cleared off for motivation.
Took another few hours another night after work to clear the rest.
Fast forward to yesterday. I decided that the whole project was to be completed that day. Drywall. Texture, prime, paint, trim, wainscot and electrical.
Headed out to Home Depot Sunday morning to grab material and went to town.
Got the walls stripped. Sprinkler clock is hanging and to be relocated. TV coax, which I thought we used, is to be unhooked, as we don't use it. If we need it later, I got the stuff to run through the attic.
The conduit in the wall is for the welder which will be wired in the wall. So I can start with a clean slate.
PVA primer over the existing paint. PO painted with a gloss paint with just fire taped drywall. Looks horrible! Prime first, then fill holes, mud and texture.
Got the walls texture with a light knockdown. While it was drying, hung the corrugated steel. I've always seen this stuff run vertically, so I decided to run it horizontally.
2 coats of paint later.
Since I'll be doing this project one wall at a time (Remember ADHD), and since I wanted to break up the color, I decided to trim everything out. I used 2x3 and 1x3 for top trim on top of the wainscot to act as a small shelve. This will the "production wall" with all the floor mounted tools, so wanted a little space to keep odds and ends.
Used 2x2 for all the corners. Didn't need to cut any of the steel for this wall, and only two cuts for the short section of wall next to the garage door. The idea with the 2x2 trim is that when I do the ceiling, or com joining wall, I can remove the 2x2 and do the texture and paint, then put it back on. The 1 1/2" space the 2x2 hides makes texture and paint much easier as I don't have to cut anything in.
Starting to place things. I'll eventually have a blast cabinet and band saw on this wall. There's room to expand at that point.
I really hated this stupid filing cabinet. Big, heavy, hard to move, so it became a "what color is this paint" canvas. Once again, GJ has opened up my blind eyes. This will be cleaned up and painted to better flow with the garage a little later.
Here's the nearly finished product. With a few more tools to add, paint the storage cabinet, and I have a buddy with a 65 Cadillac I want to cut the rear end off and hang on the wall. I'll light up the lights on it, and should look kinda neat.
Ended up with 5 new 20 amp outlets on their own circuit, welder and compressor have their own outlets in the walls, moved the sprinkler outlet, and put it on its own dedicated GFCI (to be legal).
Well, there it is.
I'll add to this thread as I do the other walls.
Here's the rest of the garage. As you can see, the remaining needs just as much attention to being to a good level.
As the tile says, I have a rather difficult case of ADHD. This leads to multiple projects, in multiple stages of completion.
This means most of the time, you can't see the walls, and sometimes, even the floor.
If gravity wasn't a problem, the ceiling would be covered in more **** too. Guess I have one thing going from me.
One thing I've never really understood is a crisp clean garage, all painted fancy with actually trim around windows, and still be a working garage. However, that opinion has changed since my time with GJ. I've seen lots of beautiful garages here, with guys who truly work out of them. I always thought that if you worked in your garage, it was supposed to be dirty and messy.
The more and more that I'm spending my nights viewing all the fantastic work folks have out into their garages, the more I want that for myself. Heck, I'm even thinking of tile now!
This started out as the need to add a few outlets. I wired in a 100 amp sub panel when we bought the house, so I could get the compressor and welder running, but that's as far as I've gone with it. Basically ALL my work has come from 1 ceiling mounted cord reel plugged into the garage door opener outlet. It works great, but can get frustrating grinding, then drilling, then grinding again all whole moving cords.
Anyways, here's where I started.
I this one, you can see the sub panel by the door. Compressor is also buried back in that corner too.
This is from a few months ago when I started yet another project bike.
Last week I decided to jump on getting the shed cleaned out and organized. It's a 8x12 that stores the lawn equipment. I knew after some measuring that I could put more square footage of shelving in the shed if I moved the doors. So I did that one night after work.
Got the top shelf in the garage cleared off for motivation.
Took another few hours another night after work to clear the rest.
Fast forward to yesterday. I decided that the whole project was to be completed that day. Drywall. Texture, prime, paint, trim, wainscot and electrical.
Headed out to Home Depot Sunday morning to grab material and went to town.
Got the walls stripped. Sprinkler clock is hanging and to be relocated. TV coax, which I thought we used, is to be unhooked, as we don't use it. If we need it later, I got the stuff to run through the attic.
The conduit in the wall is for the welder which will be wired in the wall. So I can start with a clean slate.
PVA primer over the existing paint. PO painted with a gloss paint with just fire taped drywall. Looks horrible! Prime first, then fill holes, mud and texture.
Got the walls texture with a light knockdown. While it was drying, hung the corrugated steel. I've always seen this stuff run vertically, so I decided to run it horizontally.
2 coats of paint later.
Since I'll be doing this project one wall at a time (Remember ADHD), and since I wanted to break up the color, I decided to trim everything out. I used 2x3 and 1x3 for top trim on top of the wainscot to act as a small shelve. This will the "production wall" with all the floor mounted tools, so wanted a little space to keep odds and ends.
Used 2x2 for all the corners. Didn't need to cut any of the steel for this wall, and only two cuts for the short section of wall next to the garage door. The idea with the 2x2 trim is that when I do the ceiling, or com joining wall, I can remove the 2x2 and do the texture and paint, then put it back on. The 1 1/2" space the 2x2 hides makes texture and paint much easier as I don't have to cut anything in.
Starting to place things. I'll eventually have a blast cabinet and band saw on this wall. There's room to expand at that point.
I really hated this stupid filing cabinet. Big, heavy, hard to move, so it became a "what color is this paint" canvas. Once again, GJ has opened up my blind eyes. This will be cleaned up and painted to better flow with the garage a little later.
Here's the nearly finished product. With a few more tools to add, paint the storage cabinet, and I have a buddy with a 65 Cadillac I want to cut the rear end off and hang on the wall. I'll light up the lights on it, and should look kinda neat.
Ended up with 5 new 20 amp outlets on their own circuit, welder and compressor have their own outlets in the walls, moved the sprinkler outlet, and put it on its own dedicated GFCI (to be legal).
Well, there it is.
I'll add to this thread as I do the other walls.
Here's the rest of the garage. As you can see, the remaining needs just as much attention to being to a good level.
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but I'm looking VERY forward to driving it!