Total Garage Remodel

[Chris]

It's lookin good, I can't wait to see the floors done. The HFH restore here in Temecula had a boat load of Lowes display cabinets last week cheap, I would have bought a few but my garage is already packed tight. I can't wait until I get to redo my garage I am thinking instead of the shelves I have around all the walls I will put up kitchen cabinets all around to free up as much floor space as possible. I am way jelous of your guys garages but I can only do seven projects at once.

[Chris]

I just had a great idea Brad, why don't you build a shed inside your garage? Maybe come three feet off one of the walls and run the length so you can still have all the bikes in there and not see them? You would loose some of you room but not have to worry about seeing the things you don't want to see when hanging out in there. It would be very cheap as well you could probably build a wall and drywall it for around a hundred or two.

[havasu]

Not to jack another thread, but I built a small room just outside the garage where I keep all my bikes and other crap I never use anymore!

[BRad704]

Good idea on the extra space, but I cant go in any direction with my garage walls...

Here's my weekend update...

$299.31 in wood and epoxy and incedentals.






Framing around the shelves


Painted hinges and screw heads with Hammered Dark Bronze... GREATEST spray can paint EVER!




Doors hung and Dark Walnut stain applied...




I even got my wife to help all weekend! The floor had to be pre-wet before acid etching


Halfway there

[havasu]

That looks great! Was that epoxy a custom color? I really like it. I had to chuckle when I saw where you ended the epoxy next to the driveway. I did exactly the same. When the garage is shut, it all looks so uniform, but when the garage is opened, it looks like you missed the last 8"- 10". I guess everyone who epoxies their floor have this same concern!

[BRad704]

Originally Posted by havasu

That looks great! Was that epoxy a custom color? I really like it. I had to chuckle when I saw where you ended the epoxy next to the driveway. I did exactly the same. When the garage is shut, it all looks so uniform, but when the garage is opened, it looks like you missed the last 8"- 10". I guess everyone who epoxies their floor have this same concern!

Thanks! the Behr 2-part kits at HD are tintable to about 40 different colors. I think I should have gone with something more brown, but oh well, its a VAST improvement over what it was before. This color is called Giant Sequoia, and it used the silver base, so the kit came with grey chips. We had to buy 2 bags of tan chips...

We couldnt really figure out the best place to stop it, so in my tiredness, made the executive decision to just end it there...

[BRad704]

Here's what I think I want to do for a bar-area in teh garage... on the left wall about halfway...

the idea is that I use the extra brick (that matches the floor) to build up a 2 - 3' base, then build a wooden cabinet on top of that. Inside this cabinet will be the countertop (hopefully 3/4" ply with skimcoat of dark colored concrete ala Chris' inspriation)... This will hinge at about 48" from floor, and open downward to be the bar-top... Inside will be some sort of metal sign on teh back, and under the bar top, I could add doors to hold my dart stuff... When finished, just lift the bartop back to vertical and insert pin to hold it in place...

Sounds easy enough to me...

[havasu]

This is the stupid epoxy line I have to deal with as well!

[BRad704]

I dont even see the line.. I'm too distracted by the really nice looking brick border... I have some left over bricks in the garage since we moved in (I'm assuming from construction), and perhaps I could do something like that to cover my line... Hmmm... They'll have to be cut to the proper thickness, but it could still hide where I stopped painting...

[havasu]

Yeah, hindsight being 20/20, I think I would have rather painted the epoxy all the way up to the bricks, to avoid the 9" unpainted strip. How about you?