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Feb. 17th, 2004 12:11 amMy garage is almost put back together. Yay!
The wiring is done, the insulation is done, the drywall is done. I don't want to paint until summer, because of the fumes and because most paint needs to be applied at a certain temp range. But I can't live with it all torn apart for months, so I've put the shelves and workbench together. I may never bother to paint; the only reason I put up drywall is because paneling is flammable, and I had to have something covering the insulation. Besides, I'm tired of having it feel like a dark cave out there, and even unpainted drywall is much brighter than paneling.
I made an effort to use things that I already had, so the shelves are made of scrap lumber that was already kicking around, some leftover brackets from various closet projects, etc. The light over the workbench used to be one of the overhead lights, before I installed the ceiling. The metal base that's holding up the workbench is built from a shelving unit I already had out there, which I dremeled into shape to fit in the exact spot where I wanted, and put the countertop at the height I wanted. I attached it to the walls using small pieces of scrap lumber which you can't see, and it's rock solid. This summer when I paint it, I think I will just mix together all the various shades of white that we've got leftover from interior painting projects over the years, and paint it with that. It's so nice to use things up which would otherwise have been trash.
Before and after pics are behind the lj-cut
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The wiring is done, the insulation is done, the drywall is done. I don't want to paint until summer, because of the fumes and because most paint needs to be applied at a certain temp range. But I can't live with it all torn apart for months, so I've put the shelves and workbench together. I may never bother to paint; the only reason I put up drywall is because paneling is flammable, and I had to have something covering the insulation. Besides, I'm tired of having it feel like a dark cave out there, and even unpainted drywall is much brighter than paneling.
I made an effort to use things that I already had, so the shelves are made of scrap lumber that was already kicking around, some leftover brackets from various closet projects, etc. The light over the workbench used to be one of the overhead lights, before I installed the ceiling. The metal base that's holding up the workbench is built from a shelving unit I already had out there, which I dremeled into shape to fit in the exact spot where I wanted, and put the countertop at the height I wanted. I attached it to the walls using small pieces of scrap lumber which you can't see, and it's rock solid. This summer when I paint it, I think I will just mix together all the various shades of white that we've got leftover from interior painting projects over the years, and paint it with that. It's so nice to use things up which would otherwise have been trash.
Before and after pics are behind the lj-cut
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