Designing a garage
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Designing a garage
My wife and I just bought our first home (yay!) and now I'm going to have a two-car garage to play with -- no more WRX baking out in the sun. I've got almost a month before we move in, but I thought I would get started on designing a well-organized garage. So, do any of you have an auto palace, a Subaru shrine, a showroom-class garage? I'm looking for tips on:
Shelves and cabinetry, who makes good, durable, and nice-looking garage stuff
Floor coatings/coverings; should I paint it? Have it coated? Put in carpet? (sheesh!)
Lighting (how is yours positioned? Halogen, fluorescent, etc.)
And pictures of course, of your own garage design. I'm not looking to get TOO crazy here, but I am determined not to have one of those ugly, piles-of-anonymous-crap garages that get featured on those home makeover shows.
Shelves and cabinetry, who makes good, durable, and nice-looking garage stuff
Floor coatings/coverings; should I paint it? Have it coated? Put in carpet? (sheesh!)
Lighting (how is yours positioned? Halogen, fluorescent, etc.)
And pictures of course, of your own garage design. I'm not looking to get TOO crazy here, but I am determined not to have one of those ugly, piles-of-anonymous-crap garages that get featured on those home makeover shows.
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From: ghettos of malibu, yo
floor: http://www.ucoatit.com/
shelves&cabinents: snap-on...and get lots and lots of snap on tools, too
thats what I would do anyways
shelves&cabinents: snap-on...and get lots and lots of snap on tools, too
thats what I would do anyways
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Good suggestions, that floor treatment looks like a must-do. However, have you PRICED that Snap-on tools stuff?? $349 for a simple wall cabinet!! For those kind of prices I could only afford a shelf and a socket wrench...
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Here are some ideas...
Get some overhead flourescent lights, (at least 2). and place the light so that an opened hood does not block the light into your engine bay.
Keep a wide open path into the house, and don't put anything near where you open the car doors. The back wall is best for shelves and workbenches.
If you still can, add a 30 amp dedicated outlet in the garage.
There are several "plastic" cabinets now on the market, they don't get water damage, or wood rot/bug problems, or rust.
Get an air compressor.
I built my own workbench out of 2x4's and 3/8" plywood, and attached pegboard to the side wall studs. The pegboard is really great for organizing things.
Get some overhead flourescent lights, (at least 2). and place the light so that an opened hood does not block the light into your engine bay.
Keep a wide open path into the house, and don't put anything near where you open the car doors. The back wall is best for shelves and workbenches.
If you still can, add a 30 amp dedicated outlet in the garage.
There are several "plastic" cabinets now on the market, they don't get water damage, or wood rot/bug problems, or rust.
Get an air compressor.
I built my own workbench out of 2x4's and 3/8" plywood, and attached pegboard to the side wall studs. The pegboard is really great for organizing things.
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I have a floorcoating, but it is more epoxy ish than what dorrington showed. I have a Snap-On tool box, filled with, of course, Snap-On tools. Cabinets are located on the front wall, and are filled with 1. Car detailing supplies, 2. Any type of fluid or maintainance necessity, and 3. Parts.
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Originally Posted by meilers
Good suggestions, that floor treatment looks like a must-do. However, have you PRICED that Snap-on tools stuff?? $349 for a simple wall cabinet!! For those kind of prices I could only afford a shelf and a socket wrench...
but look at all the money you'll save if you "do it yourself...with u-coat it" (the song...get it?)
yeah snap on tools cost an arm and a leg...I worked at Mosler for a while and theyd have a truck come by every pay day to take everyone's money. You're right though, its really not necessary for what most people need, but I like to dream.
I saw a guy once with a set of GOLD PLATED snap on tools....but his house was pretty ghetto...hmmm
Last edited by dorrington; Aug 15, 2004 at 10:10 AM.
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Thanks for all the great suggestions!
Unfortunately the house I am moving to already has a painted garage floor
thus I will probably skip the floor coating step, as that would mean having to strip that paint off the floor before the u-coat-it goes on. I'm not a big fan of nasty chemicals.
I have to find that magazine Garage Life, just to prove that it exists. Only the Japanese!
Unfortunately the house I am moving to already has a painted garage floor
thus I will probably skip the floor coating step, as that would mean having to strip that paint off the floor before the u-coat-it goes on. I'm not a big fan of nasty chemicals.I have to find that magazine Garage Life, just to prove that it exists. Only the Japanese!
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