Thursday, May 8, 2008

Project: Garage

Anyone who knows my dad knows he is a project man. He's been dying to fix our garage for a long time now, so this was the magical week. Here's a peek at the makeover.
As you can see, the drywall was never painted and there were tons of water stains. My dad spent a LOT of time patching the place up.
The garage had a lot of random junk in it and we purged a lot of stuff.
After the patching, there was a ton of sanding to be done. There was a lot of dust in the air and I just had eye surgery, so I busted out these fine goggles for protection. My dad and I had drywall compound everywhere. Our hair looked gray by the end of the day.
Under all that dust is my dad.
The walls needed some heavy-duty primer. This is the part where my mom (the fastest brush in the west) was a life saver.
After the primer came a nice coat of beige, some gorilla shelf assembly, a lot of organizing, and then - POOF! Voila! Here is the final project. There is now a place for everything and everything is in its place!
I am SO excited about our new clean garage! Thank you so much mom and dad for all your hard work! You can come park your car here anytime!


4 comments:

Cassie said...

AWESOME!!! The garage looks a MILLION times better! You gotta love dad and his ambition!

Taylor Swim said...

That looks amazing! Nice job guys! Dad has been dying to do that since you moved in. I'm sure he's been glowing with pride (or dust) that it is all finished and looking so nice. Wait to go team Magill!

Anonymous said...

LOVE your new blog!
I love the pictures of you and your Dad.
I am quiet the Daddy's girl myself!!!
Great job on the garage. I can't wait to see it in person. Way to go Cheri!

Kate Otterstrom said...

Your dad rocks, Cher! I remember several apartment beautification projects that you two undertook when we were living together. Garages can be such massive black holes that it must be nice for you to have a pretty, organized garage now.