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07-14-2008, 09:53 PM
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Updated Garage Overhaul Pics
I started this project quite a few months ago and has pretty much consumed most of my free/detailing time. But, it had to be done in the overall best interest for detailing and just flat out organizing my garage better. When we moved into our current house almost 2 years ago, the garage had a couple of simple shelves up front, a couple of wall hooks on the side, and about 1/4 of it wasn't drywalled with the rest just having a flash coat of mud on it. On the wall and above garage opening that was not finished, I installed insulation between the studs, hung drywall, and then proceeded to mud and tape the new drywall with 3 coats of mud and the flash coated areas with 2 additional coats. After sanding, I primed and then applied 2 coats of exterior paint from top to bottom. Once this was complete, I installed the Gladiator GarageWorks system. The stuff's not the cheapest around, but I've been extremely impressed by it so far.
I put gear channels just about everywhere I could and hung up 2 large cabinets and 3 smaller cabinets along with a host of hooks, shelves and baskets throughout. I tried digging up some before pics the best I could. Here you can see the back wall and side wall that I hung drywall in the background:  You can see the left side here:  Just like doing details, should've taken more before pics.... Anyway, here's some of the finished product. The 2 big on-wall cabinets are dedicated for detailing products:     And the most important stuff:     The 2 detailing cabinets are still shaking out as I start to use stuff and organize it as needed. Couple of other notes. I have some big plastic bin holders on order for underneath the 1 smaller on-wall cabinet next to the halogens. These will hold my MF dirty and clean large plastic bing holders. The left of the brushes and Schmitts on the back wall will be going a 40" LCD hooked up to a sat receiver and sooner or later 5.1 surround sound sytems consisting of a Yamaha receiver and Atlantic Technology in-walls. Also, above where the garage opens, I'll be putting some hy-loft storage units for bigger storage items that are used less frequently. Also, will be installing some T8 flourescent lights . That's why you see the power cords for the current ones hanging down. Still need to add insulation to the back of the garage door and above the ceiling as well. Oh, and still need to do something with the floor. Any recommendations would be appreciated! A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this one. At one point while mudding, I had an old rickety wood later collapse on me. I tried catching myself between the wall and garage door track, but that proceeded to leave some serious cuts (probably should've gotten stitches) and removed some skin from my right arm. Hurt like hell! I'll continue to tweak it as time goes on. As mentioned, I'm very impressed with the Gladiator system. I think it was a good investment overall for the house too. Thanks for checking out my post. 
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07-14-2008, 10:44 PM
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07-14-2008, 11:48 PM
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Looks fantastic Jon!
Long way from where it was.
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07-14-2008, 11:58 PM
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Oooh very nice
 I really like those two tall cabinets, they look great.The entire garage looks sweet  I'll be taking a week off work with the intension to finish off the garage as I would like to have it all done up, but something tells me a week just wont be enough...but with a bit of help I may pull it off  I'll definitely be referring back to this post though Thank you for sharing.
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