GARAGE ART: What'd you build?

I know someone who's doing it with a '47 Oldsmobile, from the windshield to the front bumper. I'm sure he's post photos as soon as he's done.

 

Were you *really* concerned that you would get no response?

Buss Automotive Fuses

Some of you will recognize it as a Quiznos sign

 

that would look cool..
until that one night you have some friend over who get one too many in them and doesnt know you have a 47 olds sticking thru your wall and he freaks out thinking someone just crashed thru your garage wall

 

I like that!

 

i know this is borderline car related, but its from the street. so ill post this:
i took a turning signal lense from a stop light and turned it into a turtle shell.

 

haha thats cool

 

Yeah, except he's doing it in his house, on his main living room wall by his pool table. Yep, he's single.

 

one heavy ass lamp...awesome

 

ya it is, but at least the drunks dont knock it over

 

that is super cool

 

How cool is that? I need to get my daughter under the helmet!

 

spend all the time you can with them , they grow up so fast.

 

How cool are the flathead tab??

 

Denise, The guy I modeled mine after had put holes right below the roll on the top of the headgate on 18" centers so he could mount it to his shop wall. Once he realized that all of the tailgate load is focused at the top of the stake pockets, he scabbed out the two studs that were closest to them and ran lag bolts through the top of the pockets at an angle.

You might even be able to do away with the headgate entirely. You could recess a shelf in to the wall the same height as the tailgate and use it as a giant liquor cabinet/bar. Of course if the wall depth is an issue you could just leave the bedsides long enough to accomadate your favorite beverages of choice. ( I don't know you well enough to know what size bottles of booze you buy.).

 

My desk. Built in 2002. Seen here too many times

 

My desk lamp(sorry for the crappy pic) Take one junkyard Poly valve cover and add a $5 desk lamp. Spray with hammertone paint, letter, and this is what ya get..

 

Two recapped slicks, a piece of glass(yard sale $5)....instant(almost anyway) end table/toy display case

 

Looks like I need to come down there and do alittle cleaning for ya.

Actually since I am building the wall that this will go on, and there's a deep closet on the other side of this wall, I can make the wall depth in this area as deep as needed. Recessed to hold bottles behind the tailgate is an awesome idea! You're going to have to come for cocktails once it's built.

 

Anglia fire guard.

 

Denise, I have been known to partake of a drink from time to time...




Didn't you do a car magazine/car ad wallpaper in a bathroom as well?

 

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nice thread

 

wow lots of cool ideas.I have alot of junk that can be turned into something cool. keep the pictures coming.

 

Garage art? My garage ended up being all the "art" I did for over a year. This is the West wall.

 

Yep, made my own "wallpaper" from Plan59.com artwork, which consists of vintage car ads.


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Wait till you see what I've got planned for my new dining room table and the TV in my living room. Everything should be completed by late spring and of course I'll post then.

 

Here's a clock I made last spring.
It's about 12 x 20.



Denise,
I haven't forgotten ya! When I start selling my stuff, you will be the first to know...
-DouG-

 

Good, glad to hear it. I will need to know my choices though by the week after Christmas as I am building a nitch in the new TV wall for one of your clocks and I'll need an approx size so at least one of the nitches is large enough.

Not saying you have to sell it to me at that point but as long as I've picked out the one I want so I know the size, that will be good enough for me. I can look at a empty nitch in the wall for a long time.... as long as I know something as cool as one of your clocks will be going into it in the future.

 

Just be sure to include the stuffed animals, Oh wait that was Steve and Chaz *LOL*

 

This is the only sort of art I have been doing in my garage.........lol

 

What??? AWESOME! Explain please...