I have a one car garage. No drywall (and the drywall that is facing in to the house isn't up to code), no insulation. The only thing we've done is to remove the heavy/malfunctioning wooden door that came with the house and put up a lighter insulated door.
It is packed full of halloween stuff. I've had people tell me that it's creepy to go in there.
2 car garage. Set of stairs to the lower level in addition to entry on the main level. 2 windows. Cement floor. No drywall,but we're going to do one wall here shortly (like next week) for firewall and pretty sake. My car and Hs truck are in it. Not too much random junk at all. Weather here requires a garage be used for vehicles practically so we try to keep it open. A bunch of kid toys, strollers, Christmas lights and some garden stuff. There's an old countertop up in the rafters for someday use.
I want to epoxy the floor but we did it in part of our barn office and it all chipped off in like 6 months, so now I'm scared.
Two car garage with old furniture, doors, and other randoms. We parked my car in there last winter but started using that side for lawn stuff this spring. It'll get cleaned up again before winter joins us. In fact, we should probably call AMVAC or something for the furniture, and we already plan to get a bagster for the rest. There's no drywall, but it has finished walls simply because it used to not be a garage (I'm not sure when it was enclosed.). The floor is just concrete, but I would love to epoxy it.
Ours is nonexistent. It is very weird not to have a garage, but nice to be forced to not keep all things. Wer'e still working on that one. ;p
At our old house it was a 2 car garage, nicely finished, insulated space that housed tools, paint, and a ton of junk. There was one wall of nice Gorilla brand shelving. One corner was set up as the laundry room/overflow pantry, with a lot of tall cabinets and some snap together tile flooring over the concrete, and the entrance to the house and the door to the dog run were in that area.
2 car garage dry walled. I don't really know anyone who doesn't have theirs dry walled.
We park both cars in there but do have space for shelving and a table saw. We also have cube shelving and hooks by the door for random sport/kid nonsense
2 car, unattached garage. Dry wall, concrete floors. Currently holding a crap ton of random stuff from the move. Eventually one side will be for DHs car ( I don't drive or have a car ) and the other side we will have free standing shelves and all the kids stuff (we have a ton of bikes, scooters, kid cars, balls, soccer goals, etc etc etc)
Post by ruthie7532 on Jul 24, 2014 18:20:40 GMT -5
Our main one is a 3 car garage. We have 2 cars and a riding lawn mower in there, as well as several stacks of logs for our fireplace. We also keep trash/recycling in there, and a system DH set up for filling our birdfeeders (he fills a 30 gallon trash can with birdseed and set up a spigot to fill smaller containers to fill the feeders). One wall also has hooks for mops and brooms. Unfortunately, the 3rd space in the garage is a magnet for junk, since the lawnmower doesn't take up the space.
The original owner of our house worked on cars, so he had a second garage build under the first. There's only 1 door, but it's also 3 car size. DH has 2 walls lined with wooden shelving that isn't even close to filled yet. All our gardening supplies and all of DHs extensive woodworking stuff is down there. There is also a rusty patio set that needs to be sanded/painted.
Post by texassmith on Jul 24, 2014 18:49:54 GMT -5
Two car garage. Drywalled with concrete floor. Currently only my car is parked in there. We moved in a couple months ago and aren't organized enough to get both cars in quite yet. My plan for fall/winter/spring/sometime when it isn't eighty bazillion degrees outside is to patch some holes in the drywall, paint the walls and ceiling, and get a good organization system up on the walls so we can hang most stuff (bikes, string trimmer, a giant pegboard for tools and miscellaneous, etc). We're also both getting new cars in the near future, so that's another incentive to make room for both to park. Right now we don't much care about having our POS vehicles exposed to the weather all the time (at least DH's is now)
3 car garage, drywalled and nothing in the floor (although I would love to have it someday!)
In the 2 car bay closest to the house we keep our cars. The wall by the house we have a fridge, a metal shelving unit with outdoor stuff, a garden box with yard stuff and 2 rows of Rubbermaid fast track (hoses and coolers). The back wall has a long row of fast track and has garden equipment, ladders, some other stuff.
The third bay has our trash cans and bikes in an easy to pull out location, along with the lawn mower. The back corner my husband has set up like a workshop -- his table saw, big tool chest, shop vac, chrome storage rack with other tools.
It's drywalled. I've been meaning to paint it for two years now, but I was too lazy in 2012, last year was too hot and this year I haven't gotten around to it yet.
We epoxied the floor in 2012 and it looks rad.
The garage itself is barely large enough for us to fit both our cars in and it sucks.
Did you DIY the floor? Can you tell me more about how you did it, how much it costs, etc?
Post by sierramist03 on Jul 24, 2014 20:00:55 GMT -5
Our current rental has a 2 car garage. On a daily basis I park my car inside it and if needed for weather we can tightly fit our truck too. It is dry walled and the floor is painted but they didn't do it right and it's peeling something awful. On the left side we have our tool box and our miter saw. The whole right wall is lined with shelves we built and our freezer. Here's the style we built it was super easy. diycozyhome.com/diy-storage-perfect-for-garage-or-basement/
1 car detached garage, cinderblock-style interior with exposed wood trusses. It has two windows with... curtains. The previous owner's doing and I haven't taken them down, though I don't really care who looks into my garage. We have the type of lot with a driveway along the side of the house and then the garage is on one side of the backyard. It's convenient because we can park the car in front of the garage and walk right through the back door.
We were storing tons of unneeded stuff in there before the fire, which just stayed there afterwards. We finally got the last of the boxes (mostly books, but also movies and kitchen items) out last weekend!
Right now we have my husband's kayaks, our bikes, a kitchen table and chairs we want to get rid of, a TV we want to get rid of, a bunch of broken down boxes I want to give away, and then a few tools and scraps of building material for our house (floor boards, siding, etc, for patch jobs). If we get rid of the kitchen table, I plan to actually garage the car this winter.
Oh, we have a motion light on the garage, and a light that comes on the interior automatically when the door opens. But the door doesn't have an emergency release - the ONLY way to open the door is with a clicker, which is rough in the case of a power outage!
Roomy 1 car garage, drywalled and lined with haphazard shelving and some old set of kitchen cabinets that serve now as storage. We dont park a car in it.
Half of it is for my tools and workspace, half of it is for my husbands brewing equipment. He keeps a kegerator over there in his side too. We also have a washer dryer and utility sink on one wall of the garage.
Eventually I have dreams of tearing off the drywall, putting up shear walls , redrywalling and making a set of workspaces for me and josh - something that makes more sense than the random handmedown storage that the previous owner put in there
Post by adhdfashion on Jul 25, 2014 1:23:08 GMT -5
2 car attached garage insulated and sheet rocked. We have wood shelving units to hold all my fabric bins and notions containers. Very large area rugs over the floor. Music studio in one half and my sewing studio in the other. We don't use it for cars at all the door is insulated and lock down as well. We need a studio and not many people garage there cars here. So its was a simple solution. I am looking into building a studio on the property in the future.
Post by demandypants on Jul 25, 2014 7:02:36 GMT -5
we have a two car attached garage with two cars in it. it is otherwise kind of a mess of essential things. Kids bikes, some tools, shelves, recycle bins, pool filter/pump and associated equipment, lawn mower, trimmer, garden tools. I would really like a shed to clear up some of the outdoor tools. But it is lower on the must-have list right now. The walls are finished. But I doubt they are insulated.
1 car detached garage, cinderblock-style interior with exposed wood trusses. It has two windows with... curtains. The previous owner's doing and I haven't taken them down, though I don't really care who looks into my garage. We have the type of lot with a driveway along the side of the house and then the garage is on one side of the backyard.
Would you believe this describes our garage, except that it's 2 car? Windows with curtains from the previous homeowners
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. - G. K. Chesterton
We have 2 garages, there's a 1 car drive under garage that is insulated and poorly dry walled that I park in. It also holds the motorcycle, 4 wheeler, table saw, new woodstove (will be installed soon!), and wood storage along with misc yard tools and stuff. The other garage is a 24x24 1 bay garage/workshop where DH keeps all his tools and the tractor. I made sure when we were house hunting that his garage would be far enough away from the house so if it burned we'd still have a place to live.
2 1/2 car garage ( 20x24) 2 cars, lawnmower, and fourwheeler. We also have a fridge, shelves, air compressor and massive toolbox. Back wall that meets the basement is drywalled and ceiling is drywalled, those are the walls that are shared with the rest of the house. The sidewalls and floor are concrete and were poured with the basement.
It's currently my husband's "Man Room" complete with a large flat-screen TV. We just moved in last month. He'll be building a work bench like we had in our old home. He'll be working on house projects in there and hanging out. I have one corner by the door that leads into the house where I have my elliptical. The rest is his space. It's cool though considering a majority of the house will be more mine/our space.
We don't plan on keeping cars in it. We have a nice sized parking pad.
Post by schitzengiggles on Jul 25, 2014 10:49:51 GMT -5
We have a slightly oversized 2 car attached garage, with concrete floor and drywalled walls.
There are 2 windows one the side, and a door in back that also leads to our backyard. We park both vehicles in there and also have a workbench and floor to ceiling shelving along part of the back wall. On the sides there is still room for our snowblower, lawn mower, kids bikes, a deep freezer, etc.
The area before you enter the house we made into a makeshift "mudroom" with hooks on the wall and storage solutions where we try to keep most of the shoes, jackets, seasonal junk etc.
We have the scary garage: 2 car but would be large enough for 3 if there were a door to get the car in (and it didn't have a built-in work bench in that area). Scattered with tons of crap still from when we moved in. My dad had lost his condo and all their belongings went in to a storage unit and then he couldn't afford the unit and we got a house, so whatever we saved went in to the garage. A lot of things I have still to get to my (ex) step-mom to go through what she still wants of her craft stuff. I still dream of getting it organized so we can park cars in there, but its 3 years on and we're not much closer. Sigh.
I'd LIKE to get rid of the stuff that we don't want and then line the back and sides with shelving for seasonal and longer term storage and get the long work bench completely uncovered except for some gardening things.