One Room Challenge: Garage - Week 6

We're in the home stretch now!  It's week 6 of the One Room Challenge, and we have two weeks left to complete or close out our projects.  There are a ton of great projects happening with DIYers, designers, and homeowners that are getting close to the finish as well.  Check out their progress and see previous weeks here!
To catch up on this project, start here: Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5
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I'm definitely in the home stretch, and I'm looking forward to wrapping up in the next couple weeks.  With temps dropping off below outdoor painting levels (we got really lucky for this project.  The paint timeline outdoors was really ambitious.), I'm going back to my original plan for leaving the roof eaves for now, and tackling those in the spring.  

Slow Progress is Sustainable Progress

This was the first week that my progress on the garage really slowed, and there were two really big reasons for that: my partner was out of town for work last week, and Halloween was Monday!  We go really big for Halloween every year (it's my brother's birthday!), so that continued to be a priority for us and for the kids.  At the same time as Halloween prep, I was running the show solo at home.  As always, the kids came first.  

Still, the window glaze had time to cure on the window, and I was able to get that sash primed and painted this week!  It changed so much of the look of the garage that I questioned painting the adjacent door the same color.  Since I wasn't picky either way (it does face North, so reflective light and solar heat weren't issues), I put it up to a vote on Instagram.  Sash Gray, Sherwin Williams Dovetail (7018), won out over the trim color, Sherwin Williams Pure White (7005).  I love it! 

​The Awning

Over on Instagram, I alluded to the salvaged awning that I picked up from my sister's.  It got cleaned up over the weekend, and I started spray painting it in Rustoleum Protective Gloss Enamel in Almond.  The creamy color matches the roof structures for the chicken coop, playhouse, and main house pretty well, and I wanted another way to tie in the garage to the main house, since it has a completely different roof than the metal roofing in other places.  

The awning originally didn't come from my sister's: I had picked up a pair on the side of the road and she graciously stored this one and plans to use the other.  If there is one thing that is a major annoyance to me: it's struggling to open a door in the rain.  Since my ultimate goal is to make this a functioning garage, an awning over the side door is really going to help make that happen.  And anything that pushes water passed the upcoming French drain will definitely help me!  

I am seriously falling in love with this project. At the beginning of the challenge, I wasn't excited about any part of it.  But once I got the roof on and the mural up, the winds started changing.  I've really grown fond of this garage, and I'm excited to get it to a point where it can really be an asset to how we live here.  

As always, check out the day-to-day progress over on Instagram, and check out more in the "Garage" highlight.  We're really getting close now, and I'm ecstatic to get this buttoned up for winter!