Garage Face Lift-For FREE!

The garage isn't the main part of the house... and yet it is important. It was needing a face lift, so we gave it one. Our garage gets a lot of use.... and sometimes we even park the vehicle in there!!!!  :)  It is a place with paints, freezer, coolers, garden stuff, wood and more.  Over the years we have added shelves... our sons have hooked shelves together, used up old wood for more shelves... and more.....they were mostly wood ones, but they didn't match... some were painted, some were raw wood and none of it matched.

 You can see here that there is bare wood... old bare wood, and painted wood... just a mixture. I decided to paint it all one color figuring that would be better than the mixture of colors.

First of all, we needed to prime the bare wood.... so we picked some really bright yellow/green paint that I got for free at a garage sale, but it is really too bright for our house. It worked well as a primer coat. So did a couple of other odd paints.

We put everybody to work on this... we handed out lots of paint brushes and had a family painting "party".  :)
 
 You can see more of the shelving... it works, but there are a lot of different finishes and colors. We started at one side and kept emptying shelves and painting... it was a last minute kind of job.  :)

While the priming was being done, I was grabbing cans of paint off of the shelves and dumping them into a five gallon bucket. Some were parts of cans from paint jobs long done... others were free paints... there was quite a mixture. Some were ceiling flat paints, some glossy, some eggshell... I dumped and stirred with a long piece of wood... our youngest daughter helped me with this part also.  I dumped several kinds of paint in and stirred to see what color emerged. :)  I slowed down on the darker colors.... and ended up with a light green paint. .

 
 These first pictures look really light colored, but it was a little darker after it dried. Would I have chosen this color if I could have picked ANYthing I wanted to? No, probably not.... but it worked out fine......

 Here you can see that we still have the mess at the end. :)

I knew having all one color would look nice, but I was still really pleased with how much it helped the looks of things.

Here, you can also see the 5 gallon bucket with paint.

This color is probably more accurate for the finished color than the other pictures. We were all surprised at the color that emerged... and I wish I would have taken a picture of all the colors of paints used... there were whites, grays, pink, green, blues, pale yellow... and there was even a flourescent paint!

We ended up painting the whole garage all the same color... and we still have a gallon or so left for touch up.... things look better.... and the best part was that it was FREE. And we all worked together. It was a satisfying project.... and my husband bought pizza afterwards, which was a treat for all of us.... we were all really tired! 





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