Looking Out From the Garage

Lend me your "too cool" garage... ok, at least tell me about it.

The sty... I was going to call this post "A funny thing happened on my way to the Search Engine Results..." and then start it with... I got hijacked. It was one of them long-tailed searches. They sure are sneaky. But, I got hijacked with a different idea, sooo...

I got hijacked. It was one of them long-tailed searches. They sure are sneaky.

This one was called "cool garage toys". Now, if you take a look at my tags, you'll see that I have around 30 posts that mention garages. I have over 100 that involve real estate. One might think that I would get some search engine lovin' for real estate... but, nope. It's all about garages.

Seriously, my top six search terms are all garages. Now, I will say that there is one post I have here that has surpassed all others in contacts... my phone rings twice a week over it, and it is real estate related, but nobody that calls has the $20M to actually do it, and they just want me to tell all of my secrets... but, for the most part, I think that most of my Googling readers are hitting me looking for the grooviest and coolest garage stuff.

The sty...Being a tech savvy guy (think Steve Martin's "wild and craaazy guys" line), as well as a garage geek and swift thinking marketer, I have a solution. I want to see YOUR garage. That's right... YOUR garage.

So, being the swifty that I am, after a mere 4 1/2 months, I have figure out that I need to showcase some cool garages. Now, of course this blog isn't the best platform for it, but I do have a real estate and garage website (duh!) that would be perfect.

No charge. No geographical restrictions. No pressure. I'd just like to see some cool garages. I might even be able to put you on the front lines of a cool reward I'm looking to announce in a week or two as well.

The only thing I ask is that they look better than the sad sack I have pictures of here. This is a truly terrible garage. It is clogged with crap, and needs a much better system for storage. I just haven't had the time of money to finish the projects that is clogging it up... Talk to my wife. As soon as she let's me, I will clean it up and turn it into the 26'x24' one car garage it always wanted to be... with attached tool room.

So, comment and send me an email. I'll gladly feature YOUR garage on my website. For the whole world to see. Maybe my wife will stop buying purses long enough for me to do something with my own garage.

Oh yeah... If you need a bigger garage, let me know. I'm in Gwinnett County, GA and also work South Hall and South Forsyth. Furthermore, I have agents all over the country that would love to get a "car people" referral.

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13 comments • Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy • November 08 2007 06:37PM

Cool Garage Toys

Since I am an admitted garage guy, I obviously like the toys that go into a cool garage. 

OK, the ultimate garage toy is a really cool ride.  Street rods, sports cars, racers, Jeeps, 4x4s, even boats and other things are the ultimate garage accessories.  But, what goes into make a cool garage aside from the rides?

If you are a builder, the lots of electrical outlets are the first order of business.  Fabricators will often have several things going at the same time, and have various tools in various work stations around the garage.  This would also include 220V outlets for welders and air compressors and plasma cutters.  The next thing is closed storage.  While shelves are a must, having closed shelving is MUCH better.  Not only does everything look neater (because you can't see it) but it stays cleaner.  All of the dust from grinding and working stay out of the shelving.  Finally, EVERYTHING needs to be off the floor, or on rollers.  This makes clean-up a much faster and more efficient process.  Break out the airhose and blow it out.

For those that do heavy duty building, floor coatings like epoxy aren't that good Welder slag and plasma slag will burn the coating and take it back to ugly.  Tiles are not good for the same reasons, especially the plastic snap in tiles.

Light work/display/detailing garages go better with industrial coatings like epoxy.  The snap tiles, like Racedeck are also great in these garages.  It is still good to keep everything off of the floor for clean-up.  The only real drawback of plastic tiles is that they don't do well with heavy loads like big tool boxes and jackstands.  One cool thing I have seen done for jackstands is to weld a flat piece of metal to the bottom, and then coat it with Rhinolining.  This cushions it for plastic tiles, and will keep the stands from scratching epoxies.  

For a true display bay, go wild.  Theme it.  I ran across a house with a faux marble floor in the garage.  Since the house looked like an Italian Villa, it fit perfectly.  The Alfa-Romeos and Ferraris were quite at home with this setting.  Similarly, I ran across a detached garage that looked like a 1950s service station.  It had glass roll-up doors and fit the street rods perfectly.  Lots of neon and chrome were there as well. 

Tool storage is another area that we always need to go after.  I have LOTS of tools.  Aside from the big things (welder, band saw, plasma cutter, drill press, etc.) there are loads of sockets and hand tools, as well as small power tools. Keeping them organized and handy is always a challenge.  These are great little racks for sockets other stuff and they can allow a lot of stuff to be in a small area, but still fully organized.   Of course, there are lots of great boxes and other tool storage things that are good to have around.  Aside from traditional boxes, going to full on tool cabinetry is a great way to make the garage look worthy of a high dollar race team.  If given an unlimited budget, these are a great choice.  Coming back down to earth, using several rolling boxes is a great alternative.  This also makes it easier to move them around when needs change.  

Whatever you do, make it work for you.  You'll find that your garage can look better, hold more stuff, and increase the value of your home.   

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1 comment • Lane Bailey - REALTOR & Car Guy • August 04 2007 12:36PM