It's been 4 Months Since........

[PRE-H20]

We moved into our new (to us) house.......

The only claim I care about is the Garage.....

The wife had free reign on the rest of the house..... new floors, new carpet, new paint, crown molding through out house, new kitchen, new bathrooms, recessed lighting, decorating, etc etc etc a lot to list.... blah blah blah..... she has great taste so I don't care what she did in the decor or design of the house.......

But the garage..... Ahhh the garage is where I draw the line......

I'm almost done...........

Here is an update......... getting closer to final result. (not that anyone asked)

Before:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KGvL6rJAVm74dGBN7

After:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xsjf3okA5taNSKv6

[Steve F]

Now you're talking!

[PRE-H20]

Today.... I'm painting the top half of the walls.... and garage door..... the love the epoxied floors.... easy to clean up and imperfections cant really see.....

[GH85Carrera]

My wife has free reign for the decor of the house. Furniture, to the paint on the walls and flooring. She lets me have some automotive related items in my office in the corner of the house.

The garage is MINE, mine mine. I do let her park her Macan in the middle bay. She stores a few small items for her tropical fish aquarium in front of her car. I have a bathroom in my garage, and the toilet seat remains up! The garage walls are fully sheet-rocked, painted and so is the ceiling. All insulated, with a heater and an air conditioner I can run as needed.

Yours is looking nice. Get lots of Porsche posters!

[PRE-H20]

GH85Carrera...... nice! a bathroom? ooohhh i like the idea! and the seat up? nice!!!!!

This new house has converted crawl space into storage space throughout the house so she can store all her holiday stuff and her stuff anywhere she wants..... not the garage! hahahaha. she doesnt care, plenty of space for her.

I also added about 700 square feet above the garage for my storage space, it was all just empty wasted space, so I had my contractor built it out........ I've used about 15% of the available space up there......

I'm a happy guy.

[masraum]

If anyone adds a bathroom to the garage, you may also want to include a small shower.

[masraum]

Good stuff, Pre-H2O. The garage is much improved, although you skipped the best part in the video, the little black car. With that parked in the garage, who notices anything else!

[PRE-H20]

i love the bathroom idea, BUT don't think its a must for me.......

thanks masraum! im inching along to complete my vision..... it already looks a bit different from that "after" video..... im trying to work on it everyday after work... its been fun.

hahaha.... yes the lil black car will get highlight video once im done.... i wanted a nice home for it to hang out in.....

[ramonesfreak]

Nice garage. Love my garage

My toilet however is a Home Depot bucket

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Good job, that's a big improvement!

Can't have too much storage space, money, shoes or horsepower

[Seahawk]

Nice!

While we are renting the house we bought in SC to tenants, it does not have a garage and it is in the "historic district" (which is really nice, btw).

I've got business in Alabama at the end of the month and I'll be meeting with an architect to figure out the way forward with how this can all work.

I am going to have to be clever. I have more workshop space and storage now than you can imagine so I've been lazy.

[Scott Douglas]

I can't imagine the downsizing you're going to have to do when you move, Seahawk. I don't envy you that task at all.
Like George Carlin used to say the stuff you have expands to fill the house you live in, or something like that.

[cabmandone]

Funny how a little epoxy and some cabinets really dress things up. I don't even get to claim my garage! But I have a 30X50 shop and a 40x72 barn that are all mine. When my wife talks about them I just say "Nope! Those are my spaces." And she gets what I'm saying.

[Rusty Heap]

My little Rubbermaid Shed from Walmart.

[KFC911]

^^^^ Looks like Rusty has plenty of storage space available for Pelican needing to downsize !

Seahawk .... you need to keep the farm btw ... just make all yer stuff ... Jack's problem ....

...and a great place to hang out for you too!

[sugarwood]

Originally Posted by gh85carrera

the garage is mine, mine mine.
I do let her park her macan in the middle bay.

lol

[Captain Ahab Jr]

My garage is mine, mine too

My wife has said she hope's I'm very happy living in it when it's finished

[PRE-H20]

sooo moving right along..... when i rented out my old house, i left my garage fridge in my other house and have been thinking about getting a hooptie fridge for the garage...... good ol craigslist got me a beat up, banged up, filthy old garage fridge.....

$50.00 DELIVERED. hummmmmmmm ok well it works well and its $50 bucks... why not?

SOOOO i kept the same paint scheme, cleaned it up, was pretty detailed about it and i think it came out OK.... $50.

[PRE-H20]

when i started the clean up and paint....... had no idea how it would turn out.... IT WAS FILTHY AND IN A SAD STATE......

[PRE-H20]

End result.....

Turned out OK to me.....