Interior Garage Renovation

So last year we put up vinyl siding on the garage.  This year it was time to fix the inside.  When we bought the house the garage rafters still had a bunch of crap from the previous owners.  The inside was awful, it had wood grain vinyl coated drywall for the walls.....blech.  Well, the drywall had water damage from the old wood siding being in such bad shape, so it was crumbling in some spots.

Luckily, I had a hookup on getting a Bagster for free, still had to pay the 'pick up' fee though.  I thought were going to need 2, but those things hold A TON of crap!!!  The main goal for redoing the interior of the garage was to get all of our tools and stuff organized better and to utilize the space better while still being able to put a car in there for the wintertime.  We were able to get 2 matching kitchen pantry cabinets for NOTHING from the place my dad works at because they were from sets that were either discontinued, scratch/dent, who knows what.

We didn't want to deal with drywall in the garage, so we were thinking of alternative options such as particle board, plywood etc.  We settled on hardboard but if we had to do it again, we probably wouldn't use it.  it was kind of hard to cut, we had to use a circular saw to do the edges, then used a jigsaw to cut out outlets and switches.  Once we got the hang of cutting and getting them up, we were able to hang 3-4 pieces in one night towards the end.  Due to work schedules and weather this took MONTHS to get it to this point.  We have done a few more things since the last of the pictures, we really only need to fix the gigantic crack/holes in the concrete floor and put everything in its 'winter home' so we can park a car in there.

Without further adieu, here are pictures!!

This was the mess of our garage before we gutted it

You can see in the corner those pieces were all crumbled from water damage

This was the during renovation

We had to keep shifting stuff around the garage as we worked

What a mess! This was after the Bagster was taken to the road for pickup

First piece of hardboard in, tried to use nails, but they
kept buckling, so we had to use screws

It's looking better!

Free cabinets!!  My dad made shelves for the insides

So much better looking! Saves space by putting the bikes on the rafters

Tool organization!

BONUS PICTURES OF BAGSTER!!

That thing was FULL!  Still could have added more though

Pretty cool watching the whole process