Most garages have plenty of space — the problem is that none of it is actually working for you.
That’s the quiet frustration behind a lot of the calls we get here in Marietta. A homeowner has invested in a beautiful home, kept the interior sharp, and then the garage door goes up — and it’s a different story entirely. Bikes leaning against the wall. Boxes stacked where a car should park. Tools on the floor because there’s nowhere else to put them.
This project is about what happens when a homeowner decides they’re done with that.
The Starting Point: A Garage That Didn’t Match the House
The home itself was well-appointed — the kind of place where the details matter. But the garage, a large multi-car space with real square footage to work with, had almost no storage infrastructure to show for it.
The floor was bare concrete. The walls were empty. Everything that didn’t have a place inside the house eventually ended up out here, which meant the garage wasn’t functioning as a garage — it was functioning as a holding area.
That’s a problem we see often in the Marietta and Cobb County area. The footprint is there. The potential is obvious. But without a real system, the space just absorbs clutter rather than containing it.
The homeowner had reached the point where the workarounds — a shelf unit here, a plastic bin there — weren’t cutting it anymore. They wanted something built to last, and they wanted it to look like it belonged.
The Scope: A Full-System Transformation
This wasn’t a single-product install. It was a coordinated, multi-element transformation designed to address the floor, the walls, the cabinetry, and the lighting as one cohesive system. Here’s what went in.
Signature Series Cabinetry
The backbone of the project is a full run of Signature Series cabinetry by Gorgeous Garage — configured wall-to-wall with a Slate box finish, Slate doors, and black edge banding throughout. The hardware matches: BAR-style black handles in 16″ for base cabinets and 24″ for the tall units, with soft-close hinges and soft-close drawer glides on every piece.
The work area anchors one section of the wall, finished with a stainless steel countertop for a surface that can actually take the wear. The homeowner supplied their own sink and granite countertop for the adjacent section — a personal touch that integrates cleanly into the finished design.
Soft-close everything. Full-back construction. This is what Signature Series means in practice.
PVC Slatwall Storage System
Running 105 square feet total — including a dedicated section for a storage closet — the black PVC slatwall system gives the garage flexible, reconfigurable wall storage that works around how the space is actually used.
The accessories are all graphite black: medium and large wire baskets, 8″ loop hooks, and 6″ snap hooks. The slatwall doesn’t just hold things — it keeps them visible, accessible, and off the floor where they used to live.
Swiss Trax RibTrax Pro Flooring
This is where the scope of the project really registers: 1,700 square feet of Swiss Trax RibTrax Pro interlocking garage floor tiles in Slate Grey, with a Jet Black border running the perimeter.
The field uses the ribbed RibTrax Pro texture. The accents use the smooth Pro Smooth tile. The combination creates a custom grid pattern that reads as intentional and finished — not just covered. The black border does what a good frame does: it defines the space and makes everything inside it look deliberate.
Every tile is backed by a lifetime warranty.
LED Workbench Lighting
A plug-in LED solution positioned directly above the work surface rounds out the installation. Task lighting in a workspace isn’t optional — it’s the difference between a surface you use and one you avoid.
The Installation: What a Job This Size Actually Looks Like
Before a single cabinet goes up, the job is already planned — every panel sorted, every tile staged. This is what a 1,700 sq ft garage transformation looks like before it begins.
A project at this scale requires preparation before a single panel goes up. When the crew arrived, the job was already mapped: cabinet configurations confirmed, tile quantities staged, slatwall sections measured and marked.
Laying 1,700 square feet of Swiss Trax tile is methodical work. The two-texture pattern — ribbed field, smooth accents — has to be planned from the border inward so the grid lands right. The cabinet run goes up after the floor is set, anchored to the wall and leveled across the full run.
One real-world note worth mentioning: the BAR-style handles were on backorder at the time of installation. Rather than substituting or leaving the job incomplete, the team documented the detail and returned to finish the hardware once the order arrived. It’s a small thing, but it reflects how a job this size gets managed — every detail tracked, every follow-through honored.
The Result: A Garage That Earns Its Square Footage
Walk into this garage now and the first thing you notice is how open it feels.
That’s not an accident. When the cabinetry is wall-mounted and the slatwall carries the tools and gear, the floor stays clear. The two-tone Swiss Trax surface — Slate Grey field, Jet Black border — anchors the room without competing with the cabinet palette. Slate and black, floor to ceiling, with stainless steel at the work surface. It holds together.
The homeowner’s custom sink and granite countertop sit beside the stainless steel workbench like they were always part of the plan. Because now they are.
This is what a garage storage system looks like when it’s designed as a system — not assembled piece by piece over a few weekends, but installed in a coordinated sequence by a team that handles every step in-house. No subcontractors. The same crew that planned the job finished it.
Garaginization of Marietta has been doing this work since 2008. The Signature Series, the Swiss Trax flooring, the slatwall — these aren’t products we sell. They’re components of a system we design around the way you actually use your space.
Ready to See What Your Garage Could Look Like?
If you’re in the Marietta, Kennesaw, Smyrna, or greater Atlanta area and you’re tired of a garage that doesn’t match the rest of your home, we’d like to show you what’s possible.
The first step is a free design consultation — no pressure, no guesswork. We’ll look at your space, understand how you use it, and put together a system that works for your home.
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