Not sure what section this belongs in but I figured maybe here. I just moved into my first home and am starting to work on the garage. We re did the electric in the whole house. Each time I plugged my air compressor in and had a light on, everything would cut off. So we needed more power. As you can see I have to fix the big holes in the walls. I have painted the ceiling white, and installed 2 of 10 T8 Light Fixtures. 8 More to go up. Now my questions are about paint, trim, floor color and placement of items.

I'm thinking of doing the walls in a silver/gray color, with the trim around the windows and door black. So white ceiling, black trim and silver walls. Yet I have no clue what color to do on the floor. I will have to wait till spring to do the floor anway because of temperatures outside. But is there anytime of flexible tall trim that I could do from the floor to the drywall? There is like a 6 inch gap or so and the bottom edges of the drywal are all uneven and small holes.

3 Weeks Ago!


Now With Ceiling Painted White and Two T8's Up



The Other 8 Lights and Random Holes


Trying To Organize


Ceiling and Door


Should I Leave Bikes Like This Or Put Them Both On One Wall Under Eachother?


Shot Of The CR!

 

Your thoughts on the matter sound good to me. Maybe do a light grey/blue on the walls instead of just silver? Nice cars btw!

 

Nice and tidy garage .

 

i'd do white because of light reflection. semi gloss so you can wipe the walls easily if they get dirty/greasy.
what flooring product are you considering? epoxy, stain, racedeck???

i would tint or frost the windows to keep prying eyes out.

 

nice garage!!
if the concrete goes up from the floor all the way around, I'd just paint it when you paint the floor--it'll look good and be more durable than anything else you could put there.
then put molding around the wall on the drywall where it meets the concrete (down to the concrete)---molding is pretty cheap at Lowes or Home Depot if you get plastic or "paint grade" wood--you can get it a couple of inches high and it should cover nearly all the gaps---use "painters caulk" to fill any remaining gaps (if you've never used painters caulk--it's wonderful stuff-----it's a caulk that fills any seam or gap inside or outside the house and then you paint right over it and it's permanent--it's a couple of bucks a tube at Lowes or HD
I also agree with hquerrero---semi gloss paint for sure and white or off white for the walls

 

Thanks for the input guys! I thought about white, but kinda wanted to do something a little different. So that's when I thought of a light silver. Still not sure yet though. I'm hoping with the 10 fixtures I shouldent have any lighting problems.

For the floor I was looking to do the epoxy thing this spring. Just unsure what product to go with and what color, gloss, flakes etc. Deffinetly don't want to have to worry about hot tires pulling any up.

Great idea for the trim. I will just do the epoxy on all the concrete and put the molding over that. On one wall though......the concrete sticks out about an inch farther than the wall. Are some of the trims that flexible to go inward?

 

Very nice garage.

Regarding the floor paint, I would go with epoxy from Wolverine. You can contact Fred at Alpha Garage for more info:

Fred@AlphaGarage.com 877-333-GARAGE

He is extremely knowledgeable and helpful.

Also browse through this forum for more info Garage Journal

I used very light grey epoxy and even with almost no lights is great to work on cars. I did not use any flakes, but that's up to you. If you prep the slab properly and use quality epoxy, then there will be no lifting of the epoxy.




J

 

on the trim--stop by HD or Lowes and take a look at what they have back in the molding section---you may find something that'll flex enough

 

Awesome, thanks for the info.

Floor looks great! Ill have to check that stuff out. Thanks for the pics! Looks good with no flake!

Yah I just got back from HD to get the black trim paint I will have to check out the moudlings next time I go!

 

Where'd you get the cool black honda poster hanging in your garage?