Making a Garage into a Shop (Part 1)

Normally I would have put up more of a fight about what rooms we will be taking care of first, but seeing as how we will be building our own bathroom counters and various other things, we needed the garage space finished.

So this last weekend we started this venture. First we had to organize. A quick job that made moving everything out of the garage easier. Then my Love went over the walls, scraping off all the lose mud and the peeling tape. After the walls were thoroughly scraped, I wiped them down with TSP. To make things move faster, my Love followed me with mud, patching up all the holes and dents. Look at the difference it made already!

Before :

After scraping, TSP, and patchwork (Just check out the door!) :

Next was the primer! And what a difference! The picture below shows the three steps we took to prep the garage walls for paint.

Here is the "tool nook" before and after :

And lastly we painted. We ended up taking our time picking a paint for the garage because we wanted it to be an "oops" paint. And we got lucky! What would have normally been a $78 - 5 gallon bucket of paint, was only $32 for us! And here it is...

The spots in the third picture were areas that had bubbled from the water/TSP mix and peeled away while I was laying on the primer. I went back after the primer dried, re-scrapped those areas and gave it a nice layer of mud. Only to return to it the following day to lay on another coat of primer.

Later this week we will be finishing the ceiling then cleaning and epoxying the floors. But that will be on a later post.

The Love is ecstatic to finally have a garage first to turn into a shop, and second that its actually happening! It makes our disagreements over the kitchen much more manageable! Hehehe

Cheers~