That’s Hazel Stephenson — co-owner and the spark plug of this project — rolling primer on the Unit 1 bathroom walls. She and Di knocked out the first coat of primer in just a couple of hours. We’re adding sweat equity where we can — and Hazel and Di love to paint.
While the paint was drying, we walked the rest of Building 1 and shot everything. The mezzanine is decked with HVAC installed. The main floor is wide open and waiting. Here’s what it looks like right now, in 9 new photos.
The Main Floor
Stand at the garage door and look back. That’s 24 feet wide and 50 feet deep — 1,200 square feet of open main floor with 18-foot clear ceilings. White corrugated metal walls, black wainscoting at the base, black metal ceiling overhead. The steel staircase runs along the right wall up to the mezzanine. This is the space where your boat, your cars, your workshop, or whatever you’re building toward actually lives.
The two-tone palette — white walls, black wainscoting, black ceiling — gives these units an industrial-modern feel that photographs well but hits differently in person. The scale is hard to capture in a photo. You need to stand on the concrete and look up to understand what 18 feet of clear height actually means.
The Mezzanine
Up the stairs, the 16’ × 24’ mezzanine is decked with OSB subfloor and ready for whatever finish the owner chooses. The HVAC system is installed — ductwork runs along the black metal ceiling, and the furnace sits in its own closet at the back of the platform. Two windows on the rear wall bring in natural light. Cable railings line the edge so you can look down at the full main floor below.
This is 384 square feet of usable second-level space — office, lounge, parts storage, planning area. Combined with the main floor, every Building 1 unit delivers 1,584 total square feet. The mezzanine is what separates Diamond Garage Condos from a standard garage bay, and seeing it with the HVAC in place and the subfloor down makes the potential real.
The Bathrooms
Every Building 1 unit includes a full bathroom roughed-in and built to ADA standards. The drywall is up, taped, and mudded. Recessed lighting and exhaust are roughed into the ceiling. The shower area is ready for cement board — we’ll be tiling Unit 1. And this week, the walls got their first coat of primer and paint.
That’s Hazel — DGC co-owner and the spark plug behind this project. These units aren’t being built by a faceless developer. They’re being built by the people who are going to be your neighbors at Diamond Lake.
The bathrooms are delivered drywalled, taped, and painted white — ready for the owner’s tile, fixtures, and finishes. We handle the structure and the systems. You make it yours.
What’s Next
Building 1 is in the finishing stretch. The big systems are in — HVAC, electrical, plumbing. The stairs and railings are done. Bathrooms are getting painted. What remains is the finish work that pulls it all together: epoxy floors, final lighting, garage doors dialed in, and landscaping outside.
Two units remain in Building 1. Every week the progress moves forward, and every week there’s less time to get in at the ground floor. If you’ve been watching from the sidelines, come see it. The photos are good — but standing on the main floor and looking up at 18 feet of clear height is something else entirely.