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More than likely haha. I guess it's good I will have two cars only for the foreseeable future as the evo will be gone soon.

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Got half the recessed lights up. So far so good.

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Very nice! Can I try getting tan in there?
Maybe while we are installing some prototype Grannas racing parts?

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Looking good! Did you drop in the easy install ones or with brackets that go across. What model, curious because I want start doing the same!

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Yes I got the remodel ones that clamp to the sheetrock.

Exact stuff I bought:
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/showpos...postcount=1068

I got em with the 17% discount they had at the time, so I got em for $37 :)

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Good deal for a 4 pack!

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I took on my kitchen and living room for a remodel this yr. I think my upstairs and bathroom will be happening next yr, plus with all the freebies I've picked up looking to do a budget sauna possibly in spring. In the mean time enjoying my new wood stove on a cool night. Moved the window over the kitchen sink over 3', removed a large picture window and replaced it with a.sliding patio door, removed a entry door on the north side of the house and cut in a new window in centered on the wall. Just finished siding repairs this past weekend and added supports for my deck extension for next yr.

Finally got to work on my car, brought the head in and had new guides, valves, and 8 seats done. Fired it up tonight, fun to start it and not see copious amounts of smoke from the tail pipe. Can't wait to drive it!! 2-4 yrs of the car being down actually should be good now. I

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Got one of the 56" shop fans hung. Not wired up or anything yet, but had about 30min of free time so I felt good about getting that done atleast :)

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That wood stove is awesome. And the whole interior looks very cool, rustic looking kinda. I like it!

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Things are coming along.

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Thanks for the kind words! It is very different from how it was originally. The house is just north of Duluth 1/2 way to Two Harbors so it is very fitting to be more cabin like. Added in a before picture of the kitchen as well as before and after for our front entryway.

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Started on the lighting in the 3 stall area. Got 4 cans mounted, and 4 to go. So in total 12 cans are up and working, and 4 to go. And then mount the 2 more fans and wire those up!

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Looks great. Doing these yourself?

My two bulb garage is feeling anemic! May have to upgrade the lighting, it's long overdue.

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Yeah all myself. Its pretty simple. The garage feels so much more well lit. Ceiling fluorescents mat have been a,little better but I'm pretty happy with this and was so simple and cheap it's hard to beat!

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Arc of light!! haha nice and bright!

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Nice work.

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Been updating facebook but figured i would throw a few pictures in here, sorry if it's a lot, I trimmed a lot out haha. Should be done with foundation today, then waterproofing and drain tile tomorrow if weather cooperates, then backfill Saturday/Monday and then framing starts Tuesday if all goes well, which is doubtful with the forecast but hoping.

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Ugh, why doesn't this site resize photos automatically lol. Is there an easy way to do that??

I feel like I ask this all too often...I should probably know now...ugh.

edit: well I redid the sizes on imgur and redid the post, now it works. Bummer that it's needed but oh well, they look much better now.

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Few more updates:

Sorry for so many pictures, hopefully it's not too overboard, just excited to get this damn thing moving!

Starting to backfill today and rough framing tomorrow, should start looking like a house soon.

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Getting to the tail end of phase 1 of this winters garage mods. The ceiling fans are mounted. All the ceiling cans are up. Only thing left is to finish off the wiring and install the switches exactly where I want. So probably 1 more day worth of work and it should be done.

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99.9% there. I have the two switches installed in the new location and wired up so one turns on half, and the other turns on the other half. I also have the fan switch wired up which controls all three fans. I do still need to anchor the fans (you can see the anchor cable still dangling). And then the ceiling portion of this project is pretty much done and time to come up with a plan for a new shelving/storage layout. Overall I'm very happy with how this turned out, but it did prove that I still need some sort of side/front lighting like my old fluorescents were. The garage is extremely well lit, but working under the hood of the car is dark.

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Looks good! I picked up my remodel shallow cans for the kitchen last weekend since menards was having a sale. Did you use a hole saw to cut them all out? Will have to plastic off everything for all that dust that will rain down.

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Looking good B-man. I went with 15 LED cans in my 720 sq/ft garage, I wish I would've went with more. I'm extremely happy with the lights though compared to the old days of fluorescent bulbs that hummed and took a lot of time to warm up. The low wattage draw is a nice benefit as well.

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Agree Steve. I was torn between these or fluorescent, but in the end I chose these and I do like em. The garage is extremely well lit, but I do partially wish I would have still gotten more simple because when the fans are on you get the fan shadowing on the floor/walls. But not a big deal.

Side note, had the Fargo family in town so I had some help and got this new shelf mounted. That space above the garage seems like such dead space so I'm trying to make use of it. Same shelf from Costco that we have above the boat, except we went two wide (16' x 4' total) and it filled up that spot pretty nicely I think. Going to grab a bunch of bins from Home Depot and use that for storage for things we don't use very often (Xmas decorations, Snowboarding gear, etc).

Also Jeremy (guy with Supra couple miles from me who has inspired me) made me a couple sketches for what I could do for custom cabinets that would fill the space pretty much perfectly. I really like his ideas. He has each cabinet at ~21.5" wide fitting an even 8 across. Then the upper cabinets just leave out the middle two for mounting a decent sized flat screen (Mr. Leisure you're my inspiration for that!!). I'll probably go with his second sketch which gives lots of cabinet room and also a bunch of drawers.

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can i live in your garage?
nice work b

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If anyone gets to live in the garage it's me lol. I should install a fold out bed!

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Install a stripper pole next and we can all stay over!

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I love it! Happy to inspire too. Every good garage needs a refrigerator, flat screen, and a stereo with dolby digital. To maximize space use in wall speakers.

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A few updated pics. It's almost done with rough framing, should be done with all the big stuff tomorrow and working on detail stuff and then hopefully setting windows Friday. Fun to see it finally take shape.

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Looks really nice!

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I actually plan on doing in ceiling speakers. Not going to go dolby surround lol. My garage is a funky shape anyway so surround wouldn't really be realistic to do. So just probably 4 speakers in the ceiling with a receiver somewhere and a sub. Pretty much exactly what Jeremy has in his garage and I think it's great.

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House looks good Murlo!

I bought a Bosch Powerbox a few weeks ago after hearing Jungy's for the garage/track and really like it so far. It has 4 speakers on the top so sound really goes around the area good and has a sub in the bottom for some bass. I used it when painting a room in our house to have some tunes with actual bass vs just my shitty phone.

Not as flashy or as good sounding as high quality ceiling speakers but nice that it is portable, seems super durable, and takes up little space.

https://www.amazon.com/Bosch-PB360C-.../dp/B015XPRYS2

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^That thing is awesome and the portability is nice.

I just have a cheapy stereo in my garage with a sub and it's plenty. Not like I'm running around the place to need sound in every corner, but it's def. loud enough to crank up if I'm having a gathering.

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Yea I have an old Pioneer reciever and 2 bookshelf speakers in my garage. The neighbor has a sub and some speakers in his. When hes out working in his garage, I can feel the bass in my house, super annoying. Dont be that neighbor :)

Jungys powerbox had really good sound! Thought about picking one of those up too for camping, garage work, etc. Its nice and portable and cordless.

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^^ I already am that neighbor, remember! Solar arc of light!!

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Hahaha! bumpin beats provided by that solar power!

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I have the flush ceiling speakers left over from my old TV surround sound system, no sub. Works great in the garage, plenty loud. I didn't want to be that guy so I removed the temptation.

My Christmas list has a bluetooth home receiver on it since I now have to use an adapter to plug in my Iphone 8. Boo. Bluetoof all the things.

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Not as cool as come projects but getting close to getting the baby's room done. The walls were originally a weird shade of yellow/white and had the awesome sliding closet doors that were mirrors with the brass colored trim. Should've taken before pictures but after painting the walls those closet doors looked brutal..

Painted the room a grayish color, replaced the closet doors with some white doors, replaced the outlets and covers with white vs that old school looking brown white as well as put up new curtains and new white blinds on the one window.

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Once I saw how much cribs were I said f that I'll make one. Then wife asked if I could make a changing table too... Wood working is kind of fun, but it'd be a lot more fun if I was working in a warm garage without pressure of having it done before the baby comes lol.

Finally finished making the changing table last night, just have to stain and poly it.

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Looks good, some of the smallest changes can make the biggest differences. Your dog looks unamused haha

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Nice wood working! Looks great!