Had to do a double take at your subscriber count...only 78!? Great video dude. You are destined for greatness here on RU-vid. Video content, quality, and edited are top notch!
Hope you doing well with you move to new home and covid - 19 but new idea comes from challengings time . Always appreciated your organized and clean work . Yes , as a son of engineer with had 4 engineer degrees I just learn to love and breath organized approach to tasks . Thumbs up 🤓
Yeeees totally agree! They're so inexpensive but I hardly see anyone use them. I used to wonder if they were just a gimmick but I won't paint without them now 😄
Only if you have a very smooth surface, don't need a very clean cut in, and don't have the skill with a brush. A brush will give you more control with how much paint you put on and most people don't use enough. However, I started painting as a pro 25 years ago so it is second nature and I can cut in left or right handed with contrasting colors better than many tape jobs........many corners are not straight and I can compensate with a brush to make a line that appears straight on a textured surface. Use a pole on your roller and keep it wet, it should not have a noisy sound of the dry nap pulling away from the wall. You are right about brushing and rolling giving better coverage than the small airless. Nice job on the light cords. I have the same lights and plan to trim the wires after I finish the major rebuild I'm in the middle of for my garage.
*Wow, I'm truly amazed by your dedication and creativity in renovating your garage on a budget! Your resourcefulness and ability to transform the space into something functional and appealing is truly inspiring. It's so refreshing to see someone take on a project with limited resources and turn it into something incredible. Keep up the fantastic work, and I can't wait to see the final result! Your efforts are a reminder that with passion and a little ingenuity, any space can be transformed into a wonderful haven. 👏🛠*
Personally, I think that it says a lot about you that you captured and released the spiders rather than killing them. Found some useful ideas for my own messy garage. Great video, I'll be checking out more of your content. Thanks!
Next project, Paint the floor with garage floor epoxy paint. You wont believe the difference, it really gives the garage a clean finished look! best of luck.
I watched this video while on a random RU-vid binge and I would not have thought in a million years that this was someone first video on a RU-vid channel. So freakin good!
Painting tip--unless rolling in a very tight space, always extend the handle on the roller. A simple 3’ wood handle will double your speed and give you a smoother finish. Painting a full wall using only the roller is choppy, slow and eventually beats up your hands & wrist. A+ on the remodel. You really invested time in places where it matters.
Nice clean & bright look. Can’t wait to see u fill it up with tools and supplies/materials. I can’t wait till I can get a shop and get my tools out of storage and do pretty much what u did.
Thanks man! I am so excited to build it out more as well. I'm thinking French cleats, workbenches, dust collection, storage cabinets.. who knows what else. Good luck on your future builds! If you make a video let me know!
definitely one of those videos where you start at „ugh 15 minutes?! I’ll just skip trough it“ and end at „HOW THE HELL DID I JUST WATCH THE ENTIRE THING?“ haha! great job on the reno and the vid 👌🏻
Haha thanks so much! I was really surprised how much I had to speed up and cut out and still be 15 minutes 😩. I also found out getting the whole thing cut down under 1 minute for instagram was impossible 😂
Should add some edge banding /trim to the front edge of the work surface. If it's all chewed up, you can cut a clean edge on it with your skill saw and just use a bunch of wood glue or construction adhesive. Would really polish the look.
That's a good garage cleanup - thanks for posting. A couple of corrections and tips to help yourself and others: 1) That "beam" @12:20 is a post. Posts go vertically, beams go horizontally. 2) That's not how you roll paint @11:45 lol! Use an extension handle on the roller, do NOT use the roller handle like you did. Your way is way harder on the back and legs squatting like that, puts your face close for paint droplets flicking off the roller, and most importantly, ensures uneven coverage of the paint on the wall. When you use an extension handle (eg 5') you stand back from the wall and use leverage to radically reduce the movement in your arms making for much easier rolling for much longer for much less effort. It also smooths out the paint with much more even pressure on the roller and gets you well away from the roller itself for less paint spatter AND you can gauge coverage more accurately. 3) When you roll, use a "W" or an "M" technique which also evens coverage and reduces banding. 4) FWIW, I would go draws under the bench with foam cutouts for tools. 5) A very cheap way to improve your concrete garage floor would be epoxy paint with flakes in it. Looks great, is very hard-wearing, and relatively easy to DIY. 6) For the LED lighting, I would make a small ceiling hole above the fitting and feed the joining cable between lights through that. Much neater and no cutting / re-joining with solder.
1. Good call out thanks for clarifying. 2/3. Agreed! My intention wasn't to provide a painting "tutorial" so I left out a few details. When I say "long, overlapping lines" - I do not lift the roller, result in long M's and W's. I prefer this to the common 'random' style because, for me at least; it lessens the chance directional variation in the finish. As far as extensions go - I couldn't use one in this particular spot because there is another wall directly behind me. I would have ended up with more holes to patch 😂 4. I'm diggin' this idea. That may be a winner 🤙 5. I've considered this a few times! Call me old fashioned but I actually prefer the raw concrete look, cracks and all 😀 6. That's another good one. I did later clean the cords up with cable clips and it doesn't look half bad!
Danny, you are THE man!!! It really is easy, if you have patience and a little know how. I stumbled on your channel and showed my 12 year old son (we both agreed the editing and music are great). We are starting the garage reno next week and got some great ideas From your video. God bless and keep makin videos please. Much like TV, RU-vid is quickly getting littered with trash.
Well, the new, more extended lighting fixtures make a huge difference!! Jumps right out, in opening pictures! 1) dust, patch and paint walls, ceiling. Corner protection. 1a) Killz products for primer. 1b) Repair windows, window trim. Door trim. Paint trim. 2) vacuum, sweep, leaf blower. 3) install new lighting. 4) remove item, sort, declutter and keep only what you truly need, use. 5) repair work bench and wood shelves. Set to height for storage bins. Paint. 6) pipe column.... paint it, or wrap for decoration. 7) upgrade door knob, lever style hardware. The end.
Thanks Doug! My original plan was to paint the whole thing, but when it dawned on me how quickly it’ll get beat up I changed my mind. I think I prefer this way anyway!
Hahaha that project creep is a real thing, and probably how most projects get started... "if I'm doing this, I might as well go ahead and do this..." lol! I'm a little embarrassed to say your "dirty" garage looks clean compared to our mess, but this is super inspiring! Great video quality/editing too!
Thank you! 🤗 It really is a good/bad situation. Good because it forces me to learn but at the same time I often bite off more than I can chew 😅 Honestly, the “before” was after about 12+ hours of cleaning. It was baaaad before-before haha.
Maybe a mini fridge would be a good addition to the empty spot in the middle of the work bench. Also, what soldering iron is that? Looks like it distributed solder out of the end making it very easy to do.
Good suggestion! I may have to do that. It’s a super cheap standard solder I’ve had for years. I just pre-soldered the cables to make it a little easier on me because I’m terrible 😅
I really enjoyed watching, can't wait for part 2. Those painting pads are fantastic, I have several rooms with feature colour on one wall and those pads are fantastic for neat corners and no messy bleeding edges. Brilliant video, keep up the great work. Consider me Subscriber 384... :)
Dude. Danny! Man, it has been a minute. I saw you post on FB and checked out your RU-vid. This video is so good! You're a natural. Can't wait to see more. I hope all is well!
Hell yeah. As for under the work bench... mini fridge, LEDs to see better, a stereo. Or like you said, drawers. Maybe leave room for a vice. Looks a lot better tho. Good job.
Amazingly easy to watch . First time viewing you channel and do not know your professional background but you make a pleasent easy to follow , well done !!!! You are on your way especially shop nation ( engineer ) making a positive comments a bonus 😎
I seriously cannot believe you only have 889 subscribers. Glad I found you this early. It's going to be fun watching your channel grow! Best of luck to you :)
I totally get that 🤙🏻I didn’t paint it because I felt the paint would have been tore up pretty quick and I planned on putting doors on it eventually as well. It’s kind of grown on me though!
Nice job. Looking for ideas for finishing my garage which is bare studs for the outer walls and got a number of them. The only thing I could suggest is the next time you paint the ceiling get the whitest high gloss paint you can find to increase the light in the garage.
I love how you’re funny, too!! There’s a really cool guy (I think his logo was Carma) that turned his garage into “showroom white!” He did the floors AND insulated the garage door and insulated the walls, added drywall and even put up an amazing air conditioning DIY kit. Pretty cool! Love the blue shelving btw!
Thanks Jay! That's super cool! Some of the garages I've seen on YT are mind-blowing. You may be interested in @ABrazHouse. He built a whole studio and a freakin-attic lift; puts mine to shame! 😆
@@ModernRemade whoa really?? Checking it out now, thanks for the suggestion!! Btw the guy I was telling you about installed a split DIY mr. cool kit a/c unit that can be controlled with your phone!!
leave the empty space under the work bench and just add foot step for when you are sitting and working on a project you'll have space to tuck your feet in and be able to sit comfortably.
Nice video! There are tons of these channels on RU-vid, but not many that say “I did this, but I messed up” That’s very inspiring to a (very) amateur DIYer!
Love the details in the video and the fact that you mess up shows you're just like anyone else. Not perfect! I just got a garage and this vid makes me feel more confident about doing it myself. Thanks!
I don't have a garage but I do have work to do around the house. It is often hard to find motivation to do repairs and improvements, but watching this video helped
I love that thanks for sharing! I can say what I’ve found to helps me personally is the practice of “chunking” where I break a task into smaller parts so it doesn’t feel so overwhelming. So instead of thinking “I have this entire project/video to do this weekend”, instead I will just say “I’ll work on this for 30 minutes whether I want to or not”. Once I’m in it, I tend to get in the flow and work much longer. Anyway I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Immediately purchased those lights from your link! Just installed half of them today and it blew me away! Thanks for that man! Somehow I never saw these and they have stellar reviews!
I think some cabinet ambiance light, epoxy floor and wall or hide-o garage utility hoses (air,water,vac,power washer?), Some creative power tool storage and charging station for lights and power ools. Ryobi make a dope garage door opener that's modular taking the power tool battery and having accessories like air, fan, Bluetooth, WiFi, just out of my budget. I need a poor man's version of that. I have a 2 car garage with little to no room to work with and two giant garage queens
All great ideas thanks! 🙌 Epoxy floors have been one of my most requested. I may have to do that sometime soon! Otherwise, I'm 100% onboard with better storage and kind of where my heads at right now. Thanks Garrett!
Nice titling blending into the video content! Nice space after the renovation! Very professional feel to the video editing. All the best, Rob in Switzerland.
I'm way too damn lazy to manually sand. I just get a shitload of orbital sanding pads and switch them out. I of course attach the output into a Dust Deputy going into my vacuum with a vacuum bag. Works great and the Dust Deputy saves you a fortune on bags and filters.
Thanks Ryan! Since it picked up in the past few weeks I’ve kicked it into gear for the next one. I am 90% done so it should be out this weekend 🤞🏻So glad you liked it!
Instead of wooden runners to protect the shelves, when we built shelves in my buddy's garage, we used a DIY bedliner kit to cover the shelves. It's a decent finish, it is super easy to clean, and wears extremely well.
IDK why I waited so long to get a paint sprayer. We are in our second house now, and it needed to be remodeled bad, so I got a paint sprayer, and I am so happy I did. Makes painting so much easier and faster. I will be remodeling my new garage in the spring after I finish with the inside of the house
Love this video! I'm currently working on a small outdated garage and found this super inspiring! NO JOKE on how terrible sanding is 😭😭😭 Glad you got through it, the results are wonderful :D
trying to close on our 1st and forever home...it has a 2 door garage with an office/mancave area that will eventually have a full bath...but 1st I got to paint and add spray foam insulation... thanks for the pole idea but will try to do 2 colors weaved together
Hey congrats! The pole was one of my favorite aspects of the reno, it looks really cool 🤙🏻 if you post yours online please shoot it my way I’d love to see it!
@@ABrazHouse Unfortunately not, my Instagram game is pretty weak 😅 Looks like only about 15 views came from there. Just about everything else came from RU-vid browse features 🤙
Use open bins to park things like pancake compressor and shop vacs etc. I’m ocd-ing about the gap between the two front cabinet frames. Are you painting them? Overall wonderful job! Oh I covered my old work bench surface with peel n stick floor tiles. Works awesome. I don’t do a lot of banging or otherwise tough work on my bench so they were a cheap solution to old bench that came w house. 😀 Enjoyed the video.
Thank you! The workbench required a lot of sacrifices to get it to work out 😅 I was afraid the storage bins would beat the paint up but I may throw some doors on it at some point 🤷♂️ The tiles are a great idea!
@@viper2165 Haha I totally get that - another unfortunate sacrifice 😂 I used 8ft pine boards to build the frames and guess how long the entire bench was from side to side? 16ft 1inch 😭
@@ModernRemade gotta love that. The love/hate relationship of working with wood and building things. I can’t wait to be finished remodeling the inside of my house so I can finally start work on the part I actually want to work on, my garage.
Okay now . . . make sure to follow up with a 6mo, after many other projects, view of how many things you have stuffed under the work bench. There was a giant box -vs- man struggle earlier in the video some may have forgotten about. Look forward to more ModernRemade.
*Would you use eggshell finish, again, after several months of use?* Granted, it's a garage... but it's not fun to try to touch up eggshell paint, and a magic eraser is touchy as it can easily make shiny spots. Great video, as so many have said! The content, and the production quality. Way to go! [subscribed]
I appreciate the kind words! The paint has actually held up like a champ! That being said - luckily I don't access the storage area or those tubs that often but the wooden-runner-system seems to be working pretty well! Thanks for the sub 🙏
Just had our offer accepted on a house and I’m excited to get the garage set up for projects! This video was a great watch in the meantime! Keep it up!
@@ModernRemade Excellent! I have my first video of the rehab completed, and I am almost done with the second. I’m holding off on posting the series until I have a few shows done, so I can post with more regularity than I have in the past. Quality, not quantity? Right? I think I know your answer… :-)
You got what it takes calmness, humor accompanied with practical projects. Into today's world environment with uncertainty is a magnet thus keep at it and run with it 😊
Thank you for doing this I. 27 and I'm living in my parent house they bought and I very unhappy about the garage and this will definitely give cool and helpful ideas 💡 I love your results
$500??? thats $750 worth of plywood in 2021! I'd recommend painting that front facade of your bench--it'd improve the look immensely. Also, consider adding a stool cubby (with kick ramp) on one of the bench openings you have. That way you can slide your stool out whenever you need it and store it away when not in use.
Haha no joke! Honestly I didn't paint the facade because I'd like to replace the whole bench in the future and I want to be able to re-use those boards 😅. Good suggestion I need a stool!
@@ModernRemade We've all been there. If you need advice or anything I'd be happy to offer it. You've taken a step I've wanted to do for years, start a youtube channel, so I commend you there.
You mentioned that you removed the drywall tape on the ceiling. May I ask why? Tape is usually placed onto the joints when the drywall is installed, and I don't understand why one would remove it. Also, did you float the ceilings with fresh mud after removing the popcorn?
That's a great callout - I didn't even realize I left out that explanation! ha. Over time, the tape had began to crack and peel away from the ceiling/wall in a few spots. For the ceiling, from what I can recall, there were only a few spots that required some touch-up with mud, but for the remaining 95% I got by just sanding. Thanks for watching!
