{"id":2033,"date":"2014-06-23T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idlenot.com\/?p=2033"},"modified":"2014-06-23T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T18:40:30","slug":"garages-are-important-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idlenot.com\/?p=2033","title":{"rendered":"Garages are Important Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our first home was an apartment. My wife and I both had Camaros (she a 1974 and me a 1971). The cars made their home in the parking lot since there was no garage available. After one year of apartment life (during which time we lived on one pay check and banked the other) we purchased a new one-car garage with an attached home.<\/p>\n

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\"CamWithHeader\"<\/a>It was a nice garage. All of the walls were finished in rough grain plaster and it had a swirl ceiling. The Camaros\u00a0now spent their days in the driveway. I forgot to mention that I had a 1947 Mercury woodie\u00a0in storage in a rented garage. The woodie\u00a0went in the new garage (if we had a pre-nup it would have read “Vintage cars get first dibs at the garage”). The photo\u00a0to the\u00a0left\u00a0shows my wife holding the header for the wagon. It also shows some of the garage interior.<\/p>\n

Eventually the woodie was sold and for a short time my wife’s car went in the garage. At least until I bought the ’41 Buick. The 2000 VW Jetta (Camille’s then current ride) was \"Jetta1\"<\/a>introduced to the driveway and the Roadmaster took its place in the cozy garage. My wife never complained but I knew that her short stay in the garage (to be clear, her car was in the garage, not her<\/em>) made her look forward to the day when her car would have a home all its own.<\/p>\n

A few years ago we purchased a two-car garage with attached house. Now Camille’s 2007 Honda Civic (sunroof, GPS, the whole works) had a permanent roof over its head. My Honda Ridgeline took up the driveway space. The Buick occupied the second stall in the garage (but then you knew that). Only one problem. This was an ‘unfinished’ garage. You know the type. Walls made of naked 2×4 studs, no insulation, and of course no ceiling. Where was I going to hang all the vintage license plates?<\/p>\n

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My able assistant (actually she is the one who knows how to paint).<\/p><\/div>\n

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Don’t look close; plenty of rough seams here. It’s a garage.<\/p><\/div>\n

So, I started the garage improvement project one year ago. It is presently in the final stages. The walls are insulated and covered with plaster board. All seams are taped. The painting has begun and will be completed this week. I went for a two-tone look. Yellow above to match Camille’s new 2013 Beetle and green below to complement the Buick. I thought this was a rather unique and bold color scheme. That was until I\u00a0took a ride\u00a0down Main Street (Route 3) in\u00a0Hope Valley\u00a0this week. It seems that it was a really hard winter we just came out of and as a result the fire department was compelled to repaint all of the hydrants. I think they got the colors reversed. They should have spent more time in my garage.<\/p>\n

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The yellow matches Camille’s VW Beetle and the green goes with the ’41 Buick.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The newly painted fire hydrants in the villages of Hope Valley and Wyoming, RI.<\/p>\n

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