Hi friends! We’ve been busy organizing our garage for a couple weeks now, after being forced to replace our water heater in the basement utility room. The goal is to get the garage ready for parking both of our cars before winter comes around:
During the last two weeks, we have created an organized paint storage, DIY-ed a ski rack, and added a mud-area in our garage. Things started to look really good in here! With a good momentum, last weekend, we started working on the final wall in our garage!
The eastern/ future workshop wall
We took down the dry wall and some insulation here to make electrical panel upgrade easier. The old panel is now a junction box, which needs to be covered.
During the electrical work, we asked for more electrical outlets along this wall. Our plan is to install work bench here, something like this:
Insulation and Cover
To finish this wall, Slav started by filling in the missing insulation:
Then he covered the wall with 5mm plywood from Lowe’s:
We have debated using drywall vs plywood here, and finally settled on using plywood for its durability and less finishing work. This plywood is actually pre-primed, but Slav wants some wood color in the garage, so we mounted the pre-primed side facing the insulation. Every sheet of plywood is 4′ x 8′, perfectly spans the width of three studs.
Slav cut openings fro electrical outlet before mounting them onto the wall:
This eastern wall is 8’7″ in height. After covering the whole span of the wall, Slav started cutting small pieces to cover the gap on the top.
After an afternoon of hard work, this is what our garage eastern wall now looks like. We have bought two work benches that fit the space. And our beloved chest freezer is on the right.
Putting up storage shelves
While Slav was working on covering the wall, I worked on getting rid of this biggest pile of mess:
Remember our paint storage on the Southern wall? This is the other half of the same wall. Not so hot:
We inherited from the previous owner this bench seat, which we believe, belongs to his dodge truck. We kept it thinking that it could make a cool seating in the garage. But four month later, we have not sat on it once. Apparently we just do not hang out in the garage. The poor seat soon became a dump ground:
We decided to let it go, and I was able to fit the cart and the tool cabinets at this spot:
When we took down the eastern dry wall for electrical work, we took down a couple white shelves too. We got some simple brackets and Slav mounted them up.
The board at the bottom is shorter to accommodate the height of the tool cabinet, when it fully opens:
With the wall covered and all the storage boxes lifted off the floor, we are ready for setting up our workshop wall! Organization is my favorite activity – I can see some peaceful evenings here with a glass of red wine and music… It looked like we are somehow on track to finish the garage this month, as we had planned!
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