Since Richie built this nice storage loft above the garage door, we also decided to finish the drywall in the garage. When we have people over to the house we usually wind up hanging out in the garage. I never noticed how crappy our walls looked until I took pictures of people and the background looked horrible.
When the built our house almost 9 years ago they did not finish the drywall in the garage. Evidently, they are only required by code to finish the walls that connect to inside walls of the house. They wanted to charge us an outrageous amount of money to finish it completely. Back then, we thought we would do it and it would cost less if we did it ourselves. Boy, do I wish we just sucked it up and paid them. It was a lot of work. We spent a lot of time on ladders, mudding, sanding, taping and more sanding. Then we primed and painted the whole thing. Richie also added cabinets in the corner for more storage. Now that it is done, we are very happy with it.
This is the loft built above of garage door. It is about 20' in length, 8'depth and 3 1/2' in height. Lots of wasted space that we can now use for storage. YAY!
This is the garage finished with wet paint (that's why it is so shiny). I should take another picture minus the tarps.
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