some more garage.

Yeah - this will take some time - hanging all the trim. I've got it started, but before I could I had to paint. And before I got to paint I had to scrape. And prime. So last week during the evenings (cos I've been out backpacking or climbing every weekend) I got to work. After lots of scraping - but not nearly as much scraping as the house - I was ready to prime. Using a roller this time - instead of a 2" brush like I did on the house siding last August - I accomplished the priming pretty quickly and the garage was ready to roll -

So the next day it was time ... time to paint. Off I went gathering all the stuff (mostly from last year except for a new gallon of the Benjamin Moore Brilliant White and a quart of the Sandy Hook Green - I was hoping what I had left of the dark green would last - which thankfully it did) -

And - just for fun - umm, I had to take a pic like the one I took last year before I started painting -

It went pretty quick. The most tedious part was shoving paint in all the vertical grooves of the crap plywood siding. But I am now choosing my battles - and finding siding like the beautiful 2" VG fir stuff on the house is no longer an option (at one point I was aiming to do that - along with tearing off the roof and raising it from a 20º to 34º pitch to match the house - yeah ... no longer) - I hope that just being the same colour with the same trim design as the house will help. So after two hours the garage was green where it needed to be green (oh, and white where it needed to be white) -

Then ... then it was time to start hanging some trim. This is where it'll get tricky ... and time-consuming. Probably because I'm no carpenter. And on projects like this it becomes painfully obvious. A last-minute idea was to also put some 1x8 trim coupled with a 1x2 drip edge all around the bottom of the siding like on the house. In order to make the drip edge I measured the angle of the piece around the house (10º) and set the table saw blade at that angle and ran each 8' piece through -

Then sanded down the cut some -

Katie primed them and the 1x8s while I got to work starting to - well - actually hang some trim. The first pieces to go on after stapling a section of the 1x8/drip cap border were some vertical 1x6s I had ripped down to 1x5s -

After getting them up, I was able to start piecing together all the pieces that would make up the horizontal trim above the garage door -

To attach the 1x2 I had planed and ripped down I used my trusty stapler before nailing it to the siding -

Katie got - umm - some choice shots of me working -

Then it came time to piece together the trim for the top - made up of a 1x8, 1x2 and 11/16 half-round -

So then ... after another couple of hours I was slowly making some progress -

It's slow work I'm realizing and will take longer than I probably expected but it's all good. At least it's moving forward and I haven't (yet) screwed anything up. But now we have to go to Missouri for five days so I'll have to take a break and hopefully finish it up in September ... still lots to cut/fit/staple and also hang all the cedar shake. And then the lighting, new people door (to mortise and hang) and possibly a new garage door etc. etc. ...

Hopefully it'll be an improvement over the old garage and look more like the house ...