The Garage / Game Room Project

	We thought we were lucky. McTammy gave us a pool table. Free! Just like that. However, with all things free, this had a catch - we had to move it. After numerous phone calls, (If you ever need to move a pool table, don't call a mover. Call a pool table dealer.) and a couple of missed appointments, the pool table mover guys showed up on the last day of February at McTammy's house. (Yes, I had to shovel her driveway first!)
	They were in a hurry. (Lesson 2, something that big and heavy cannot be moved quickly!) So while they were disassembling the table, they broke the slate.
	A month, three new pieces of slate, and a pool table light from Craig's List later, the pool table was installed in our garage. Then the decision was made to transform the garage into a Game Room. A spare TV was installed, a stereo from the Salvation Army provided the music - hey, we could build a stage and sing karaoke! But what to do about the garage floor? Carpet? Tile? Vinyl? Fake laminate wood? Epoxy paint? We finally saw the solution at the local pizza parlor. Concrete stain!
	So the first step was to get everything out of the garage. Fortunately, we don't have to worry about rain, so everything is living outside for a while.
	Next, the stage was constructed - it's really a horizontal closet and we'll be storing all of those blue bins under it, while we're singing on top! Then on Tuesday morning the concrete stain guy came in and two of them spent the day cleaning the floor. There's no evidence that an oil-leaking 50 year old truck was ever parked on this floor!
	On Wednesday, he troweled a new layer of cement and polymer over the old floor. This stuff sets up really hard and is indestructible. I asked him to leave the trowel marks to give the floor some character.
	Here you can sort of see the giant swirl marks that he made. It looks better in person!
	Then on Thursday, the first of the color stain went on. He started with the darker colors, stuff with cool names like Mahogany, Ebony and Caramel.
	He squirts it on from a garden sprayer like thing. His investment is not in tools, it's in know how. (He said he's been doing this since he was seventeen.)
	On Friday he applied the top coat, another polymer, and then a special wax. Here you can really see the color - it's called Coffee and the texture that the color layers create.
	The fissures in the floor were his idea, it sort of looks like the pool table was dropped in from a great height and cracked the floor under it. We think it will last a long time and will take a lot of abuse! Next - getting rid of the garage doors and really turning it into a "room".