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Garage Redo Completed

Well, the Capt. and I spent the whole Labor Day weekend laboring!

We knew that we had a lot of work ahead of us if we were to get the garage put back together, but we told ourselves that we are not working the whole long weekend. We promised that we would take some time to relax and maybe go somewhere.

WRONG!

The good news is, the garage redo is completed.

You can check out why we decided to do over the garage and the before pictures here

We use the left side for the Capt.’s tools and my laundry area.

This is the Capt.’s new work station.

Did you notice the spilled oil on his new work bench? It didn’t take him long to break that in!

The left side of the garage is storage.

Before, we couldn’t even get to anything because we also kept the boat inside.

We decided to purchase a metal carport and store the boat on the side of the house. ( I will post about that when it arrives).

Now I can get to everything on the shelves and park my car on that side.

I hope we can continue to keep this area nice and organized.

Here is a before and after view from the outside looking in.

You can see my newly defined laundry space in the corner.

I have a few finishing touches to add to my laundry area and then I will post all of the details and lots of pictures.

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by Creative Lady of the House on September 5, 2012 • Permalink

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Posted by Creative Lady of the House on September 5, 2012

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Garage Floor

We have begun the garage makeover, starting with the floor.

This is what it looked like after the Capt. got done pressure washing it.

Because this is a cement floor that was painted, more than once, we had to use several different products to get a good end results.

The first step was to paint the entire floor with Lockdown Bonding Primer and after that dries for at least 4 hours, we then painted on the Epoxy Seal concrete paint.

Because of bad weather, we did not want to leave all of our stuff outside, so we decided to do one half at at time.

We put the bonding primer and paint on 3/4 of the floor this weekend. It is supposed to dry for 24 hours before walking on it and 5 days before putting anything heavy on it or parking a vehicle on it.

So, after letting it sit a few days, I finally did the other 1/3 of the floor yesterday.

I was so excited about how it was looking.

But then, when I went into the garage this morning to admire the nice clean floor, I noticed that it didn’t look as good as I thought it would.

There was a definite line where we left off from painting the first day and where I joined up to yesterday.

Also, the other side of the floor looked shinier than the newly painted section.

At first I thought that it just needed to cure longer but upon further investigation, I realized that we had bought 2 different paints. The one that we had used first was a satin finish and apparently the second one wasn’t.

Luckily, we have enough paint left over, and the weather is improving, so I am just going to empty out the garage and roll the whole thing again.

Let’s pray that this works !

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by Creative Lady of the House on August 29, 2012 • Permalink

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Posted by Creative Lady of the House on August 29, 2012

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Garage Makeover

The Capt.’s birthday is coming up next week and we usually don’t buy each other gifts anymore, but, since he bought me a new iPad for my birthday, I wanted to return the favor.

Every time we go to one of those home improvement stores, he drools over the big tool boxes and nice work benches. The problem is, we just don’t have much room in our garage for all of those things.

Our garage serves as a storage area and laundry room as well as his work station. Ever since we moved here, we have had to store all of the stuff that used to be in our basement in Massachusetts in the garage.

After doing a little measuring and a lot of compromising, we came up with a plan that will give the Capt. a new work station, organize the storage area more efficiently and better define my laundry area.

So, I bought the Capt. 2 workbenches and a rolling tool box for his birthday.

This generous gift on my part created a major project that has us somewhat over whelmed.

You see, we couldn’t just put these shiny new things into a dingy dirty area. Thats right, we bought special paint to redo the garage floor along with a different color paint to define my laundry area.

Now we have to take all of the stuff off of the walls and also move everything out of the garage so that the floors and walls can get painted. All of this has to get done before the Capt. can even begin to assemble and organize his new birthday stuff!

In his haste to get started, he disassembled his work station before I even had a chance to take a picture of it for a before and after comparison.

So, here is what our garage looks like now: