Garage Framing the Ceiling

It's been a while since I've posted on our garage.  You can read about our garage project here, here, here, and here.  If you remember, we wanted to have it done by May.  Obviously the project has taken a backseat to the kid's room this summer. 

Our friend Marc the Arc drew an inspiration sketch that we fell in love with.  

Since we have friends that will install the drywall for us, we (and when I say we that is a very loose term, in actually it means the Hacker, while I cheer him on) had to frame the ceiling first.  

Because he built the frame on the ground, he hoisted it up with straps.  A genius idea. 

However, once it was up, it was evident that it was too low.

So the Hacker and Marc raised the frame and built a diagonal elbow for the air condition arm. 

And now we're one step closer to getting this garage done.

 

The Hacker just has to add some framing to the other parts of the roof, that wont be dropped. Then it will be time to complete the drywall and finish the ceiling in the garage.

Do you see it somehow coming together?  (and yes, the garage has gotten messy again.)

And now some inspiration for the laundry room.

via Pinterest from sn128w.snt128.mail.live.com

This probably wont work in the garage, but I would love to be able to add this element, somehow.

via Pinterest from House Beautiful

And here's the inspiration board that I made a while back. 

Thanks for reading.

Now I have to go fold laundry.

love, 

Kristin

Framing a Water-heater

This coming Saturday morning, bright and early, we're having two brothers that are part of our church come over and help us install drywall.  We figured that since they're pros, we might as well have them do all we can.  So instead of the Hacker and I trying to tackle the drywall ourselves this past weekend, we decided it would be better for us to tackle the monster water-heater/furnace lurking in our garage.

This weekend the Hacker and my dad tackled this ugly eyesore: 

This is what it looks like after this past weekend: 

It may not look like much, but it took all of Monday.  They framed it, and more time consuming, rerouted all the electrical to the soon-to-be drywall.  

So our list is slowly being crossed off:

1. transfer all of our storage from cardboard boxes to plastic boxes. 

2. get rid of everything we do not need or want to store = garage sale 

3. insulate and drywall the walls

      add electrical outlets to two back walls

4. redo the flooring (with what is debatable) 

5. somehow, someway, cover the monster eyesore that is our water-heating unit

6. add cabinetry

8. paint the walls

9. create a "homelike" atmosphere for our "laundry room area"

10. add an attic and finish the ceiling of the garage.

Of course, they're not being crossed off in the order that we thought they would be, but I've learned that our plans rarely are.  Its so much easier to set goals, and resolve that there will be changes along the way.

xo, 

Kristin

p.s.  Check back tomorrow to see what I was up to this past weekend.