Garage wall paint

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Diehonda

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What color schemes/themes are you guys running with?



I am signing on a newly built house tomorrow and need wall color ideas. We have the rest of the house taken care of but I am stumped for colors for the garage.



The floor will be epoxied dark gray/charcoal with silver foil flakes once my wood refinishing projects are completed.





Post pics if you have them.
 
I am a member there also and have been researching their archives for some time now. I have gotten a few ideas from there but mostly for epoxy.
 
My walls and ceiling are white. Cabinets are black with red doors. Concrete is unfinished.I am thinking of painting a real light checker flag pattern on the top of one of the walls. Maybe with just an off white. Sort of a ghost effect.
 
That sounds pretty cool.





Mine are white walls and ceiling, don't plan to paint the ceiling. I have thought about a flat/gloss checkerboard pattern on the walls with 36" blocks.



I have three chrome stainless steel shelving units, a red Craftsman rollaway, and a small fridge that I plan to paint red to match the craftsman.
 
I did a tile job one time where a guy had flat black and gloss black checkers across his walls. He had white cabinets and I layed black marble with white veins and white marble with black veins on his floor in a checker pattern. It looked tough but I am not sure if I want it in my garage.
 
We are about to do the same thing! Our walls are currently white that will probably get repainted and then have a black stripe go all around the garage to much the black tool cabinets.



If you are doing a gray I'd paint my walls white and then do a stripe in the middle of each wall that same color gray as well, you might like it you might not. It would not be that hard to cover up if you didn't like it.
 
White walls and ceiling in my shop too, makes for better lighting effect as they're bright and reflective.



In my preivous shop (commercial setting) I had the lower 2' or so painted a light-medium gray so nasty dirt wouldn't show. I was surprised at how much brighter things are with all-white.



I have a black with black/white checkerboard (well, checkered flag ;) ) motiff for the the garage bath wall tile, but I want pretty plain styling in the shop. Less distracting visually and I just like the nothing-fancy/functional look. Anything other than the plain glossy white would cut down on the bright reflectiveness too.



My floor is a mottled gray (epoxy/stone material) and sometimes the "busy-ness" of it makes it hard to find dropped stuff, especially small items that blend in with the look of the floor. A plain light gray would've been better in that regard.
 
You have a point with the bright reflectiveness of white walls. I want color but you are pulling me away from the darker colors.



I currently have two lights in the ceiling but I have four florescent dual tube units that I can install if need be. I think I may install two in the ceiling and one on each side wall.



May still go with a lighter color as I doubt I will ever have all of the lights on at one time.





Keep the ideas coming. This has really got me thinking.
 
Diehonda said:
You have a point with the bright reflectiveness of white walls. I want color but you are pulling me away from the darker colors...
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No foolin', the dark walls will just suck up the light.



I currently have two lights in the ceiling but I have four florescent dual tube units that I can install if need be. I think I may install two in the ceiling and one on each side wall.



May still go with a lighter color as I doubt I will ever have all of the lights on at one time..
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I think you'll find that you *do* have 'em all on a lot of the time; generally there's never enough light. And note that fluorescents aren't very good for seeing marring (lots of threads on this..)
 
I always recommended to all my customers to use a exterior paint in a garage. It's more durable and easy to wipe clean (use a satin or gloss finish).
 
zoomzoom mazda5 said:
I always recommended to all my customers to use a exterior paint in a garage. It's more durable and easy to wipe clean (use a satin or gloss finish).
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Yeah, I used a gloss-finish epoxy and it cleans up easily.
 
^ Agree. After this summer, I will be all done painting the interior & exterior of my house (along with replacing 80% of trim boards).



Next up is garage! I'm thinking of some unique color combo, but it pretty much has to be white (or near white) due to lighting:(
 
I like the gloss exterior paint idea. Maybe some Porter Paint 900 high gloss series.



Still not really sure what color scheme. Moved into the house a couple weeks ago and have been trying to get everything else with the house in order before tackling the garage.



Anyone have pictures of their garage? White or other colors? Gloss vs. other finishes?
 
A buddy of mine has a floor that is a bit darker than what you are going to go with and he has the bottom 2' up a charcoal color and a stainless steel strip about 2" wide going around the entire garage and above the stainless on up he has a lighter grey color. It looks really nice and classy. You wont be getting the bright, very lit up garage but with the flooring you are going to go with it would look very good. Especially if you carry that color up the wall a bit and then seperate it with a lighter color. I don't know when I would be able to take a pic of it but if I can some time soon I will post it.
 
MobileJay- that gray section scheme sounds like what I had in the previous (commercial) shop. Yeah, it looks good, but for functional reasons I'd stick with pure, bright, glossy white.



I guess I'm sorta stuffy about this, but I'd absolutely let form follow function and IMO the most important thing is being able to see what you're doing. Something that looks cool wouldn't please me nearly as much as something that helped me do the work better/easier.
 
Accumulator-Thats true. He doesn't do any work as far as detailing in his garage. He just has a very nice place to sit and hang out in there. I see how the white walls would produce much more light in there but I would just get bored with it.
 
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