Garage – Here we go

Happy New Year to everyone!

In keeping with a fresh start to the year, we are finally starting on our garage renovation.

Here are the before ("now") pictures – I love looking at these after the fact!

Right when we moved in. 

Last month – notice how we painted the front when we moved in, but not the sides?
Classy move, I know, haha. We knew we'd be doing this reno soon so it would be a waste of $.
However as you can see, the front doors were enough of an eyesore that we needed to paint them
just to get us through temporarily!

This is upstairs. It's basically a large open room. Really disgusting and dirty.
This will eventually be a rec room/potential bedroom.

This is as you are coming up the stairs on the landing of the large open room.

Debris on the roof outside of the back

This is downstairs, as you walk in the side door to the back part of the garage.
This will become a kitchenette eventually

This is also downstairs, as you walk in the side door to the back part of the garage and see the
staircase upstairs is to your left. This will become a kitchenette eventually and there is a
bath in the back, that will update and expand.

This is the inside of the bathroom. To be honest this is as close as I was getting to take this picture.
You know Mike and I can stomach a lot with a reno, but it's pretty gross in there.

This is the front part of the garage that is and will be the true "garage" part of the garage.
Eventually we'll have shelving, hooks, hopefully a workstation in here.

Another view of of the front part of the garage.

Another view of of the front part of the garage and you can see the door that connects
the front part to the back part.

And here are the plans. You can see the changes to the exterior, and the layout on the
upstairs and downstairs, front and back portions. More about materials selections
and our layout choices, soon.

The old siding got ripped off today:

And so it begins!