This ain't no grosh build. Not a shop build either. Just an attached barely 2-car garage in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
Back story. We bought the house in July 2016. A 1969 built Ryan Home. Garage had a single 40-watt incandescent light bulb and it was a dark dungeon. Poor shelving units and layers of peeling garage floor paint. The east wall was peg board that was painted poop brown. The actual name of the remaining walls is "dull taupe." Gross. More to come...
Sorry for the delay. Been busy. So the below are somewhat of a "before" photo, even though it's not really before. Since we moved in we added the north wall shelving from The Container Store so we could get the storage bins off the floor. Then I added three 4-foot florescent fixtures and one 8-footer. The east wall had a peg board that was doo doo brown. The picture below is before I painted it white.
After painting white:
You see the taupe walls in the back. Moving on. The floor slab was rough. Cracked and peeling garage floor paint.
The drain in the center was in bad bad shape as well. Rusted through and actually not draining. There was over 3' of grass clippings blocking the drain.
That's it for tonight. The next step is the floor. Spoiler alert. My father in law owns an epoxy floor coating business...
Back to it. As I said above, my F-I-L owns a coatings company with a garage floor division. This is actually the third garage floor he's done for me because it's my third house. As usual, he gave us the Bernie Sanders' price (Free!). He brought over an enclosed trailer and I moved all the contents of the garage into it for the week. His crew came on Monday and sanded the floor with a walk behind sander and patched the cracks. Laid down a single stage epoxy and sprayed flake on it while it was wet. Came back on Tuesday and clear coated. This is the before and the end result:
The first thing my wife said was: we have to paint the rest of the garage. I agreed. We then set out ot paint the rest. Took down the shelving and painted the walls white.
Next it was time to get the place put back together. Initially, I had my tool box on the west wall to the right of the license plates, but that was always a pain to walk over the kids bikes to work on my car because it's always parked against the east wall. I decided to move everything to the north wall, including the repurposed kitchen cabinets that I'm pretty sure are original to the house.
A little cleaner plus cabinets:
And last but not least, no Pittsburgh garage is complete without a fridge. Closeout special at the D-pot got us this:
Notice it faces north so we can still get a car parked in there and open the door. More to come on the final thoughts and downside of the full on re-arrange.
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