Some years back, we had amassed more/different pictures and stuff than we wished to display on our interior walls, so we decided to hang a couple of pieces in our garage. Right now we have 2 framed posters of Illinois wildflowers, and a painting of a couple of garbage cans a friend of my wife’s did in college. (Hanging - appropriately - above our garbage cans.)
Our garage is very utilitarian - just a storage place for vehicles and tools. Not a man-cave or party room some people seem to have.
We rented a house once that the previous tenant had left this poster hanging on the wall of the garage:
It was damaged moving some stuff around but I wasn’t too bothered; I’m not a fan of pin-up girl art.
I do have a framed copy of this poster:
My wife loathes it. I think its kind of cool but not enough to argue with her about. It might go in the garage someday.
I want to get a decent reprint of this to hang over the washing machine:
We also have a copy of this:
Which my wife also doesnt like much. That may end up going in the garage someday.
Our garage is still a work in progress; it will be a place to store tools and cars and maybe have a workbench. Definitely not a mancave or rec room or anything similarly ridiculous.
I bought some Star Wars prints from artist Billy Ludwig at a “weird arts and crafts” show called Oddmall, and they are really great but I didn’t have anywhere good to hang them inside, so I hung them in the garage next to the door I use to go into the house, so I see them all the time. I have these three:
Dude! I have an IH tractor thermometer hanging in my garage!
Tin signs repping the Dodgers and Padres, random other signage, and a large landscape left by the previous owner which I just haven’t gotten around to throwing out yet - 5 years later.
We’ve run out of garage space, mostly because we don’t have a garage. But looking at and working on my moms house, I found a bunch of oil still life paintings that she did in college, in her garage ‘attic’. I took them and now store them because I must do something with them.
When my Wife and I got married, we choose for our anniversary gift to go out together and by one piece of art for both of us. One piece.
Some of you folks must have pretty fancy garages. The walls of mine are littered with hanging tools, brooms, shovels, and all manner of miscellaneous crap. I envy people who maintain a pristine garage, where you could practically eat off the floor. I am not one of those people.
We had the concrete in our garage polished when we remodeled. It’s very cool.
I don’t know how to answer the OP. I have been asked by my wife to hang two paintings in the garage, but haven’t managed to do it yet.
But it’s only been about two months. I’ll get to it soon.
Not a garage exactly, or maybe it does count as a garage, but I think of it as “the tractor bay”. It’s one section or bay of the pole barn, now entirely enclosed, its floor paved with asphalt, and my tractor with front end loader lives there, as well as numerous attachments and things I use with it (ropes and chains and rigging stuff, the diesel dispenser, the overhead trolley and chain hoist, a workbench and tool box, etc etc).
It’s my happy place.
Accordingly, I have put up artwork that makes me happy – photographs of sentimental value, and a wonderful old drawing of what a tractor area should look like, complete with a tractor having a pivoting front axle with chains to steer it and a forge area with an anvil.
“I’m a faithful follower of brother John Birch, and I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church, and I ain’t even got a garage – you can call and ask my wife!”
