It all started with a dartboard, but as I tend to, I’m getting carried away and escalating that into a wider ‘Man Cave Improvement Project’. Once the dartboard and backing board were on, I started thinking, it could be nice if the space I spend a few hours a week in was less ‘dingy’ - so I’ve started painting the brickwork (will look better and seal everything off to keep dust at bay). Made a start (pic below), but lots more to do (and the rest is concrete breeze block which is a major PITA to paint!).
And then I thought, this is a good opportunity to properly organise all my detailing gear as well, so storage solutions and shelving etc being worked on in parallel.
And then I thought...it would also be good to get the flooring sorted out properly (garage floor paint sucks, always ends up peeling), so I’m researching garage flooring solutions - thinking I’m gonna go with porcelain garage floor tiles. Porcelain sounds counter intuitive - brittle, right? But I’m talking commercial grade proper garage tiles, that can take a car’s weight - like they use in the dealerships. Not that expensive as it turns out. £160 for tiles to cover my single garage floor (plus adhesive and grout etc - I’ll lay ‘em myself so no labour costs). Looked at those PVC style interlocking tiles, but seems like that’s a more expensive and not as good an option as porcelain.
And then I thought it could be nice to replace the garage doors with an electric, remote controlled roller door. Which turns out not as pricey as I first thought. More research needs to be done on this, but I’ve well and truly opened Pandora’s freakin’ box now
. I’m now looking at many, many hours of DIY, some new flash garage doors and this is turning out to be the most expensive dartboard. Ever. Lol.
And then I thought, Christ I’ve got a full time job as well, this is gonna take months!