Garage/man cave improvements

[BLAKE]

My craptacular popcorn texture + drywall ceiling partially caved in, thankfully when the convertible wasn't parked there.



My neighbor/go-to-house-fix guy had the genius idea of affordably and permanently fixing the problem by affixing galvanized corrugated metal. So I took Friday off and worked with him to install this. (By the way, this was a couple weeks ago when we got rare snow, and the first time in 20+ years this car has been snowed on.)



After two days of cutting, hefting and screwing, here's the final product. In true classic car owner fashion, "while I was in there" I took this time to clean, organize and otherwise pretty things up. It's amazing and has turned out to be better than I could have hoped for. This is now my favorite room in the house.

[dsrtuckteezy]

whrz disco lights? that does look pretty good

[BradM]

That is cool. Would have never crossed my mind.

[BLAKE]

whrz disco lights? that does look pretty good

Hah, the new LEDs are enough for now.

That is cool. Would have never crossed my mind.

Me neither. Really happy with it.

And fuck popcorn ceilings, by the way.

[Cannon88]

Looks good! I scraped my popcorn ceiling off, then painted. It was a lot of work, and a bigger mess. I taped off the entire room, looked like an episode of Dexter. Lol

[crapstang]

That looks good!

[joes01bullitt]

That looks damn good!

[kingjason]

Interesting. I am smack dab in the middle of a full remodel of my garage. It is amazing the amount of shit I had laying around taking up space. Also after a little re organization I can actually get two cars and a my HD in there with room left over. I need a chrome trim and I could see using that stuff in various areas. Not sure about the roof though. Mine was like 5 different colors from the previous nimrod converting it to a room and office.

[hawaii5.0]

Nice

[The Sarge]

Looks Great

That attic door looks shady. I guess the extra weight of the metal is weighing it down a bit. Tugging on the springs. I would be afraid it would come down in the middle of the night and dent/scratch my cars.

Maybe install a latch?

[BLAKE]

Interesting. I am smack dab in the middle of a full remodel of my garage. It is amazing the amount of shit I had laying around taking up space. Also after a little re organization I can actually get two cars and a my HD in there with room left over. I need a chrome trim and I could see using that stuff in various areas. Not sure about the roof though. Mine was like 5 different colors from the previous nimrod converting it to a room and office.

The shiny new ceiling was one thing, but the real difference that surprised me was just how much more usable it was once I organized things and threw a bunch of junk out. I've always been able to fit two cars, but it's just nicer now and I can actually find everything.

Looks Great

That attic door looks shady. I guess the extra weight of the metal is weighing it down a bit. Tugging on the springs. I would be afraid it would come down in the middle of the night and dent/scratch my cars.

Maybe install a latch?

It's in no danger of coming down. The metal doesn't weigh that much, but as you mentioned, it's enough to make it sag a bit. I have plans to do just that, install a latch just so it looks nicer. In fact, I already bought one this weekend, just haven't installed yet.

[David]

I like it.

[sosoe]

That's a lot of blow on the car.

[kingjason]

Down to two shelves and I put them on the wall that had useless space. I am thinking of painting black with chrome trim, 5 wall cabinets, some art, and a chalk board. My wife is like "It is just a garage". Pffft. If I didn't have a 4L80E and 205/203 doubler sitting on the Jacks that wall would be cleaner. Stopped my other projects but it is a nice break.

[bubbaearl]

just a fyi . if you are removing that horrible damn texture from the ceiling tape a 6 in putty knife to your shop vac extension .
looks good blake. no matter how mush i add on to the shop it looks like a bomb went off .