Originally Posted by Blue Cav Customs

It took me about 6 weeks and I had to completely strip the old garage and make my wife throw away a LOT of stuff, but it's finally almost finished! I did all of the design, labor, painting and accessorizing myself.

Every single wall surface is pegboard, painted 2-tone to match the workshop, cabinets, etc. The 6" border trim and chair railing are diamond plate vinyl attached to 1/8" grey PVC and 3M-taped to the walls. Same thing with the door panels on the interior door and rear of the main door. I also "diamond plated" the mini-fridge under the TV (fully cable integrated). The overall effect in here is lots of chrome that reflects the blue and graphite all over the place.

All cabinets and work table area are from the Coleman collection sold at Lowe's. Shop lights are diamond plate, as are the light switch and power outlet covers (and the clipboard on the wall!). Before flaming me for using DP vinyl, keep in mind that it's not only more expensive but entirely impractical to use the real thing for the trim I did. It's just too heavy and I could not drill it into all of the doors, etc ( I do have to sell the place one day).

Shop is fully outfitted with every tool I could ever need. Complete set of Cobalt hand tools and B&D power tools (and yes, I do actually use them all). Each wall cabinet has a category (painting supplies, cleaning supplies, car wash supplies, etc etc). Even the yard tools were replaced with blue versions to match (snow shovel, brooms, etc).

The crowning glory of this garage is the flooring. I used a checkerboard pattern of graphite and royal blue to match my Cav. Check it out at RaceDeck.com, great stuff.
And my favorite accessory is the clock over the workbench - it's a disc brake with blue neon accents I found on clearance at Spencer's.

Just need a stool, air compressor and more real diamond plate items such as a trash can, etc and it's done. I've got a laser parking guide that shoots a beam down from the ceiling on order, and the yellow RKSport door-ding guards are coming next. I can get the car in with a little room to spare. The car will only be in here during especially bad weather or for small projects that I can do when it's cold out, etc.

These pics do not do the place justice, but not too bad. Please enjoy your "tour" and let me know what you think. Not my dream garage of all time (too small) but a great place to work until I get the cash to buy a bigger house one day.

Thanks for looking! Look forward to your comments and suggestions.

-Steve

Cockpit View (I'm gonna see if Black Cat can change my pod gauges to blue rather than that red color...


Driveway View


Close-Up View


Door to House


Main Door