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Our Favourite Transformation Of The Year (The Reveal)*

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After all of the doom and gloom last week, it’s about time that we shared the results of our amazing garage transformation with you.

Just a short time ago it looked like this

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and now, just 5 – not so short – months later, this is what it looks like

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Now, to match our lovely new garage roof, we finally have a new door, too.

Instead of the ugly up-and-over door that we used to have, we completely replaced it with a new door and now have a traditional style side-hung door as the garage would have originally had – it even has pretty little windows!

But, we didn’t stop there!

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Surprise, it’s yellow!

We decided to paint the outside of the door black to go with the other woodwork on the roof but to inject a bit of personality and colour we thought it would be fun to paint the inside something more vibrant and a bit unexpected.

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Having had such a nightmare installing the new frame and studwork for the door (you can read more about our little disaster here), we’d really worried about the process of fitting the door, but it actually turned out to be much easier than we’d expected. It was literally a matter of placing the new door in the prepared opening where it automatically rests against the doorstops. Then, after propping it up to the necessary height all we had to do was fit the hinges.

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Yes, we still need to replace some of the timber and finish off some of the painting but all in all we couldn’t be happier with this amazing transformation.

How To Replace A Garage Door

Most importantly, for the first time since we moved into our home over 4 years ago, the garage is completely safe (no more rotting timber supporting the roof) and except for a bit of tidying and painting, it’s also completely finished!

Have you ever replaced a roof or a door? Do you prefer an up-and-over garage door, or do you think we were right to replace our door with a side hung one? Although we’ve finally finished our garage door, we obviously still need to sort the driveway in front of it. At the moment we’re thinking of having a gravel drive, but we’d love to know if you have any other suggestions?

PS. We’ve now also finished adding the remaining woodwork and have finished the painting, too! You can see more of what we did and what it looks like now, here!

*Disclosure: This post is in collaboration with Homebase, but all opinions are of course our own. Thank you for supporting the brands that support Little House On The Corner.

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  1. caitlin says

    12/12/2014 at 06:30

    I think the side hung was the right choice for sure. They doors look great. Nice work.

    Reply
    • Christine says

      12/12/2014 at 09:48

      Thanks Caitlin! We’re really happy with the doors, too – now all we need to do is finish replacing the timber so that we can finish painting when the weather warms up again.
      Cx

      Reply
  2. Claire says

    07/12/2014 at 17:03

    Gosh, who knew posting about your garage would get such a reaction?! I think you’ve done a great job so far and it’s looking much better than it did before. Even with it not being completely finished! Well done.

    Claire x

    Reply
    • Christine says

      08/12/2014 at 10:32

      Thanks you, Claire! We’re really happy with the new roof and garage door and are sure that the finishing touches (that we can’t complete because of the current temperatures) will make all the difference in the end.
      Cx

      Reply
  3. Jessica@CapeofDreams says

    05/12/2014 at 18:12

    I would be happy just to have a garage, so I don’t think that I would squabble over side verse overhead doors. What do you think? Are you happy with the choice that you made?

    Reply
    • Christine says

      05/12/2014 at 20:49

      As you can see, it’s only full of junk, but yes, we’re happy with the choice we made. It obviously still needs finishing off, but overall it’s such an improvement on what was there.
      Cx

      Reply
  4. Anon says

    05/12/2014 at 01:58

    Transformation of the year? Overstatement of the year.

    The new roof is nice, although I don’t like how the tile at the top doesn’t match the remainder of it. The brick is in awful shape, should have been painted or something to compensate. The white paint on the front is drippy and awful and looked better before, and I don’t know if the garage paint is poorly done too or if the light just hits it weird but it looks very uneven. And then there is the gaping hole on the left side of the door.

    To summarize, new roof is nice. Yellow inside is a fun touch. Everything else, not blog-worthy and half-assed. Don’t follow in YHL’s footsteps.

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    • Christine says

      05/12/2014 at 08:23

      Thanks for your feedback. We’re really happy with the transformation, and for us, it’s been the biggest change on our house/ garage so far this year. The paint work is actually not finished (it’s now too cold to paint outside) and you’re right, we do still need to finish adding some woodwork, too. What you probably can’t tell on the photos, is that we’re actually painting everything black and not white, so what looks like huge drips, is actually the area that’s just been primed.
      Glad to hear that you like the yellow!
      Cx

      Reply
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