This weekend consisted of me: hanging plywood on all my walls in the garage, painting said plywood, loading up 920 lbs of junk from my garage into my old Dodge truck and hauling it to the local dump.  Playing SIX games of softball on Sunday (makeups due to rain). And somehow drinking 15 beers and winning over 50$ playing Poker on Saturday night.  Needless to say, I am tired.

So, I decided to finish my garage out after receiving word from my folks that they were getting new furniture and didn’t want to throw away the existing stuff they had.  So I figured I’d finish the garage out before putting it in there.

My garage (and basement) are different from most.  My walls are poured concrete up to about the 4 foot mark. Then its stud walls up to the ceiling.  The ceiling was already rough drywalled so I only have to paint that part.   On the walls I hung 3/8 in. plywood instead of drywall for it’s durability and the fact that I can screw directly into it without having to find a stud.  Then I painted all the wood with a semigloss white paint.

I had planned on using an acrylic based concrete sealant on the lower part of the wall but after testing it out on a small area I realized the finish would end up being too flat for my liking so I will be returning the can and getting something water based with more of a semigloss or gloss finish to it.

I had a bunch of old furniture in the garage that I figured I could use parts of for shelving.  So I went to work on our old entertainment center, and my daughter’s old headboard with my trusty circular saw and what you see below are some of the finished shelves mounted to the newly painted plywood walls.

More to come!