My wife and I just bought our first house. I am so excited My vette is going to have it's own garage. Anyone have any cool pictures of there garages. I'm looking for Ideas. Thanks

 

Congrats on the house purchase! :cheers:

Lay down some Epoxy floor paint and get a heater :cool:

 

The garage floor is painted in epoxy paint with black squares.. YES - I taped off and painted each square :crazy: :crazy:

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ya damn right ya did, and i would do the same!!!! :D

 

Oliver

Did you make the curtain to hide the washer and dryer too? :smash: :D

Terry

 

I actually removed the curtain and will replace it with a white curtain instead of the colored curtain... The garage isn't finished yet :D

 

Hey Olivier, you got anything above the garage? Looks like you got plenty of room for a lift above the C5! :)
-terry

 

Well - unfortunately - there are lots of beams for the roof support... :( :(

There's not enough space for a lift... :(

 

There's a guy locally selling side-by-side garage units. 10' roll-up doors, 20' ceilings w/2 bathrooms and central A/C. 2000 s/f. At $110k, it's cheaper than buying a house with a garage...AND no neighbors to pizz-off if you decide to tune at midnight on a Sunday.

Anyone wanna go halfs?

D. Ocean
Miami, FLA

 

I am revamping mine right now (third time); should have pics in a a couple of weeks. As one of the others stated, I beleive a furnace is key. I have a 66,000 BTU unit that take my garage up to 65 in a Chicago winter. I can work out there all year long. Definitely paint or seal the floor, otherwise you will have dust continually leaching out. I would reccomend a two part epoxy. I used to use Kyanize floor stain, which was cheap and held up awesome, but Kyanize doesn't seem to make this product anymore. I have tried the single part epoxies, but they only hold up fair (hot tire lift). This summer I am moving to the real deal; two part epoxy. Addtionally my garage has four speaker stereo and cable TV (you would be surprised how much sports you can watch while working). I also have hot and cold running water and air compressor lines throughout. One side is dedicated to Vette collectables; the other to awards; the top perimiter is license plates from all 50 states. It kind of looks like someones 70s basement which is the look I wanted. Kind of cool but a little campy. I am told that my garage is well known in our neighborhood and I have people stop just to look. We use it for parties for the keg and as a smokers room. I have had people at parties ask what room in the house it was and they are surprised to hear it's the garage. One guy commented that "he uses his garage to protect his cars". I said so do I, and he didn't believe me. The way I see it, it probably one of the most versitle, most used rooms in our house. I think most people far underutilize the value of that square footage. I love to spend hours in the garage fiddling with anything. I should be wrapping up this phase by next weekend, so if the thread is still here I will post a few pics.

 

Just like GrandSportC3, I taped each square off and painted 2 layers of Epoxy for each color. Lots of work, but well worth it!

Bill

www.bigdogvettes.com

 

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