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I’m totally obsessed with the new floor, but I’ll admit selecting this finish did give me pause when I first started planning the garage makeover. Our garage has always been rather dark and depressing… but it was a worry-free work zone {you know, before it got to overrun with junk}. I could spray paint to my heart’s content without worrying about the floor or walls. So when I thought about painting the walls white and refinishing the floor, I was a bit nervous that I’d be making the garage less functional and that I would hesitate to do projects out of concern that I’d mess up my pretty space.
My grand plan was to install hanging drawers on one portion of the “storage wall” to keep the floor space below the drawers for kids’ stuff, like wagons, trikes, and scooters. The plan looked great, but when I started pricing out drawer options from a few different stores, I realized that none of the standard drawer sizes wouldn’t fit perfectly between the studs. In order to install the tracks for the drawers, the wall would need wall board. Womp Womp!
So the choice was to scrap the hanging drawers or wallboard this one wall. Abandoning the drawer plan would put us right back to square one in terms of having lots of items cluttering the floor in front of our storage. On the other hand, wallboarding that one wall would also allow us to insulate it, which would be better in the long run for the fridge and freezer that are also going on this wall.
Fortunately my dad has done some wallboard work in the past, so he came over and helped Scott knock out this project.
When you guys accomplish something that wasn’t on your to do list, do you add it to the list just so you can check it off? You can sure bet that we added insulation and wallboard to the to do list at the end of that day, and checked it off with a big red “X”!
Once the pretty aqua metallic paint on my peg board dried, we finished assembling our stationary workbench and put both the workbenches in place.
While were busy getting the wall ready to make the hanging drawers feasible, I almost missed out of the drawer and shelving sale that I was counting on to keep the budget in check. Thank goodness for a text alert from the store reminding me that the sale only had hours left! I ran over and ordered my drawers and picked up all the components a few days later. Of course they are still in the back of my car waiting to be installed, but at least I got them for 25% off!
