First house! Garage makeover!

Are the floor pads floating or are they stuck to the concrete? If they are floating is there any chance that at the seam line in the middle or at the end where the garage door is moisture can enter, especially in the NE winters where things can get quite messy?



Oh yeah and it all looks great, I haven't seen a cleaner 1 car garage as far as I can remember.
 
I was going to ask the same thing about the cabinets!! Very nice and I bet spendy but I would really love to have some like that! Did Sears build them up as well or they came together
 
Nice Job! You really made that place shine. Obviously a lot of time and effort went into your makeover...



Two Questions for you:

1) can you give us a ballpark cost for the total renovation?



2) What did you do with all the stuff in the before photos?

No way in the world did you get it all to fit into those few cabinets?!?!?!!?



Again - GREAT JOB!
 
Floor Covering: Bought it at costco - $169 for a 7.5x11 foot roll. Lights were purchased at home depot - I forget the price but they are nothing special - basic shop lights. For detailing I use your usual halogens and incandescent work lights.



The floor pads are NOT stuck to the concrete - and for a reason. I can easily remove them if there is a moisture issue, and for periodic cleaning. They are VERY easy to work with as they are a nice soft, flexible rubber. They can be glued down, but I don't see the benefit. As I won't be driving the car in the winter, slush/mess isn't an issue for me. Even if it were, you could just pull them out in the spring and give them a good cleaning.



The cabinets are NOT expensive relative to the cost of "gladiator garage" and other brands. I think total I paid around $650 for the cabinetry. I put it together myself, and it wasn't a hassle - total work time of about 3 hours.



All the stuff in the before photos wasn't mine - it was the previous owners. I took that picture the day we made an offer on the house. You can see the disrepair that the garage was in.



Total cost of the renovation was about $1500 (cabinets, paint, flooring, lights) and alot of time spent cleaning and rewiring. The "stuff" in the garage NOW is all stuff I had before buying the house.
 
I know there have been a ton of posts since the first... but OMG thats a nice makeover! Thats some professional work.



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If you did as much in the rest of the house as you did in the garage, We'll probably see it in Architectural Digest.
 
SuperBuick- I'm late to this party, but I too think you did a great job! Hard to imagine the "before" condition when you see it now, that's really nice.



Just for kicks, see how the single incandescent light works for spotting marring- turn out all the other lights and see it it lets you spot anything on the 'vette.
 
Bah covering up all the mess with that beautiful Corvette....



Seriously nice job! You can definatly tell everything was taken seriously right down to the lighting! I just can't get over that transformation O.O
 
Thanks guys!!





Accumulator - you're right about the incandescent - I've also installed a few other incandescents throughout the garage for that exact reason. De-swirling a silver car is HARDER than de-swirling a black car because it takes way more time to even FIND the swirls!!!



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SuperBuick said:
Accumulator - you're right about the incandescent - I've also installed a few other incandescents throughout the garage for that exact reason. De-swirling a silver car is HARDER than de-swirling a black car because it takes way more time to even FIND the swirls!!!
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Yeah, I absolutely agree about the silver vs. black. I miss stuff on silver all the time, even with my endless inspections under the right lights...the sort of stuff I'd *never* miss on black. Nice to hear somebody else appreciates the difficulty of it, so thanks for posting that!
 
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