Pimp my Garage! Or show me yours!

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by 99BoxsterATL

Thanks! I just need real creative ideas now since I have not come across too many garages that have been done up. Trying to find pictures online is nearly impossible unless you are looking for cabinets etc.

If you want garage ideas, go to http://www.garagejournal.com and sign up for the board. There are literally thousands of photos in the Gallery section, as well as every flooring, wall covering, tool selection etc, etc, etc post that you could imagine. Here's a photo I quickly pulled down from the gallery as an example...

[99BoxsterATL]

Cool, I am gonna check out the site. The billiards table is an Olhausen. I picked it up at Games & Things. It was the first thing I bought for the house while it was being built. It was somewhere around $2500 or less installed. It's a great table. Has that accufast siding that won't break down and I believe was a three slate table system. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch them install it. I had to get one short stick for the tricky shots since the room isn't huge.

[super66]

Originally Posted by 99BoxsterATL

Cool, I am gonna check out the site. The billiards table is an Olhausen. I picked it up at Games & Things. It was the first thing I bought for the house while it was being built. It was somewhere around $2500 or less installed. It's a great table. Has that accufast siding that won't break down and I believe was a three slate table system. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch them install it. I had to get one short stick for the tricky shots since the room isn't huge.

that pool rooom looks great! I always wanted to add the white wood around the lower walls and then paint the top half like that.....for a second I thought it was somone's garage when I opened the thread

[cfos]

Originally Posted by 99BoxsterATL

Cool, I am gonna check out the site. The billiards table is an Olhausen. I picked it up at Games & Things. It was the first thing I bought for the house while it was being built. It was somewhere around $2500 or less installed. It's a great table. Has that accufast siding that won't break down and I believe was a three slate table system. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch them install it. I had to get one short stick for the tricky shots since the room isn't huge.

Olhausen are a really good brand. The billardex also use three slates. I'm getting my installation on the 29th and it came to about $2500 with all the extras (cover, new heat-resistant balls>????, etc.) having 15' by 19' is often difficult. Hoping we manage.

[Ronzi]

So, lemme ask an impertinent question. Do any of you guys actually DO anything in your garage, besides maybe wax the Porsche?
Do you actually own a toolbox, or maybe just a couple of wrenches?
Those are the male equivalent of Martha Stewart's kitchen. Pretty as hell, but nothing as messy as actual cooking has taken place there.

[99BoxsterATL]

Sure, I wax the car, I have a few wrenches to do work and I store all my samples for work throughout the week in the garage. I have done a lot of wood working in the garage cutting molding, cedar etc and also use it as a "lab" for work related purposes. I don't do elaborate work in my garage when it comes to motor work, but painting the garage and making it "look cool" is what sets it apart from the norm. I enjoy taking on projects that keep me busy and give end results that I am proud of. I've thought about what a big difference it would make to pull my car into a nice garage everyday as well as before entering the house and how it would be fun. It's part of the house, and painting it extends the living area in a sense because you enjoy it more. I would assume it would make the whole house seam more inviting, especially since with my town house, going through the garage to enter the house is much eaier than going around the building to the front door. It would also make you realize that you can actually do something with all that space. It's called being creative and having fun doing it. To each his own!

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by Ronzi

So, lemme ask an impertinent question. Do any of you guys actually DO anything in your garage, besides maybe wax the Porsche?
Do you actually own a toolbox, or maybe just a couple of wrenches?
Those are the male equivalent of Martha Stewart's kitchen. Pretty as hell, but nothing as messy as actual cooking has taken place there.

You can have a nice garage space and still do real work. In my last garage (in the bad scan below), I did four ground up restorations in the five years I lived there. Actually, I found that doing the floor in epoxy and painting the walls in a washable egg shell made cleaning up a lot easier. Nothing ever harmed the epoxy floor and no matter what I spilled on it, it wiped right up. Granted, my garage was nothing that would be of interest to Architectural Digest, but it doesn't have to be a cave to be functional. Isn't it more enjoyable to work in a clean, well lit space than in a grease pit?

The house I'm in now, I'll probably die in, so I want the garage to be spectacular. I'm hoping it'll be a place where, when we have guests, we all end up hanging out at the end of the evening. But, that won't stop me from sandblasting, powder-coating, painting, stripping, rebuilding, etc.

[C5150]

Quote:

"So, lemme ask an impertinent question. Do any of you guys actually DO anything in your garage, besides maybe wax the Porsche?
Do you actually own a toolbox, or maybe just a couple of wrenches?
Those are the male equivalent of Martha Stewart's kitchen. Pretty as hell, but nothing as messy as actual cooking has taken place there."

Originally Posted by Ronzi


Nope, sure don't. I'm a driver - not a mechanic. Working on a car is what money is made for.

- C5150

[wanna986]

Originally Posted by Grizzly

. Nothing ever harmed the epoxy floor and no matter what I spilled on it, it wiped right up.

I've had oil spills, paint (base coat and urethanes) spill on my concrete and have always wondered about the epoxy paint.
It's really that good?

[Grizzly]

Originally Posted by wanna986

I've had oil spills, paint (base coat and urethanes) spill on my concrete and have always wondered about the epoxy paint.
It's really that good?

It's really that good. I wish I had some better pictures of my floor so I could show it to you. Even if you spill automotive paint, get it before it dries and it'll wipe right up. If not, it'll come up with a little thinner. Oil, grease, brake, fluid? No problem whatsoever. You just wipe it up with a paper towel.

[YellowJacket]

Originally Posted by Ronzi

So, lemme ask an impertinent question. Do any of you guys actually DO anything in your garage, besides maybe wax the Porsche?
Do you actually own a toolbox, or maybe just a couple of wrenches?
Those are the male equivalent of Martha Stewart's kitchen. Pretty as hell, but nothing as messy as actual cooking has taken place there.

What a dumb question.

Like some of these other guys, I have done a little bit of work to my garage, some functional (like the epoxy floor), and some not (like paint). I spend a lot of time out there, sometimes working on my car and sometimes drinking a beer w/ my neighbors, and I like a space that's comfortable and clean.

Just because my garage isn't a half-finished storage room full of grease, pictures of my mullet-wearing friends, and 1 1/2 1980's IROC Camaros in pieces doesn't mean it isn't used. I happen to keep all my tools (or my "few wrenches") organized neatly in a 6ft tall toolchest. Some people just have cleanliness standards.

[djomlas]

well pretty much no matter what work you do, garage or not garage, its much easier to work in a clean/well lit place than trying to find a tool for 40 mins couse u just have no idea where it could be.
and then if you got the nice epoxy floor, even when youre done making all the mess, its cleans right up and it looks like u did no work, even trough you did.
when we moved to our house garage wasnt finished, actual drywall was never put on, and floor is not coated, me and my dad want to do it but we never get around to it..but it does its purpose

[MNBoxster]

Originally Posted by Ronzi

So, lemme ask an impertinent question. Do any of you guys actually DO anything in your garage, besides maybe wax the Porsche?
Do you actually own a toolbox, or maybe just a couple of wrenches?
Those are the male equivalent of Martha Stewart's kitchen. Pretty as hell, but nothing as messy as actual cooking has taken place there.

Hi,

I hear what you're saying. It is not necessary to have a Showcase Garage, though they are nice.

I have a plain old garage, cinderblock construction, pre-stressed concrete roof, nothing fancy at all. I have an I-Beam in the ceiling w/ hoist which will support 2 tons, sealed the concrete floor w/ clear sealer (cleans as good as Epoxy) and a couple of nice Car posters on the wall, a boombox, my bench, tool chests, floor jack, stands, stool, compressor, Blast cabinet, etc. and I'm good to go. Have done a dozen or so complete engine/tranny rebuilds, 4 frame-off restorations.

A Dream Garage is fine, but the cars and the work's the thing for me. I'd trade all the fancy paint and floors for an extra 250-500 '² any day...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99