Garage Facelift

One of the common questions people ask us when touring Elmsdale Estates is why didn't we renovate the garage when we did the rest of the house?

The answer of course is always time and money. (usually not enough of both).

After the house was done, the garage still had peeling door paint, and worn out walls made of a unique product called InsulBrick. For those not up on these things, this 40's invention is cardboard fibre covered in an asphalt skin that has been surface molded into brick patterns, and then had shingle-grit pressed into it. Some people call it GhettoBrick due to the aura it imparts on a neighborhood that uses it extensively.

Anyway, it was now another summer and with last fall's new shingles working well to keep the garage insides dry, it was time to fix up this eyesore. As other web sites say so well: "It's ugly to look at, but easy to cover".

Here is the before shot:

And after a couple of weekends of siding and painting, it now looks like this:

If you want to see the transformation, here is a link to the photos of the whole job.