Article: Garage Glam Homeowners invest in slick cabinets, floors, lighting in space once reserved for cars, junk

Here is the typical American garage: bicycles leaning against the walls, garden tools ready to trip the unwary, sports equipment piled helter-skelter, woodwork tools mounded in corners, inherited furniture piled to the ceiling, oil stains covering the floor.

Then there's Mike Sabo's garage, a $10,000 room so handsome it's hard to call it a garage. It's better organized and cleaner than most kitchens, and people notice.

Sabo has been customizing his snazzy, sunset-hued Nissan 350Z in the garage of his home near Memorial Hospital. "When people come to visit, they say, 'Gee, nice car, but reallllly nice garage.'"

Sabo is on the leading edge of the latest trend in home improvement -- the ...

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