Something like this:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Liberty-2-in-White-Heavy-Duty-Magnetic-Door-Catch-with-Strike-C080X0C-W-P/100149442

Cheap, simple and easy to install.

Yeah and free-standing vanities that look like furniture are very in right now. You might be able to add (decorative) feet under the front of the cabinet to add to that look.

You are not looking for tight. Tight could be the reason it wont close all the way. Those screws change the angle of the door when its closed.

Look at you and your fancy new ideas about pictures. What do you think this is a platform for sharing information. Very slippery path i say, what's next? Videos?

led lamp or replaceable bulb style? if LED then connect it either way, that's why both wires are black.

if replaceable bulb socket, you'll want the threads to be neutral and the centre pin to be hot.

If your basement is damp, pretty much anything you put on the walls and/or floor is going to come off in short order.

If your yard grading is causing water to flow towards the house, you need to fix that by re-grading. The proper way to avoid dampness in the basement is to seal the exterior of the walls and make sure your drain tile is clear.

A stopgap solution might be some of the sealing products you see advertised for the interior walls, but I don't no anyone having any long-term success with that.

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This looks like older plaster and thus may have some inherent texture to it. But the linked photos also make it look like the paint is very high sheen, like semi-gloss, even on the ceiling. A high sheen paint is easy to clean but will show every imperfection. Something more flat will hide those imperfections. I like to use matte everywhere except kitchen and bathrooms, and only use semi-gloss for trim.

In Manitoba here. You won't have any rotting in winter as everything will be frozen.

I'm assuming you'll have at least three posts for the structure so there's no worry about it tipping side to side. That means you can put in concrete piles with brackets for the posts on top. That way your posts aren't in the soil or in the concrete. The metal brackets are set into the concrete before it cures, and then the posts are bolted to the brackets. Use pressure treated posts and make sure you use end cut treatment on the ends. If you want to be extra cautious, there are inverted cone-like things that will direct rainwater away from post and footing -- but I don't think that's really necessary.

Make sure you grade things so the centre of structure's "floor" is slightly higher than the edges to prevent water pooling.

I didn't check with a screw driver of any heft but it seems pretty tight. Let me try it and report back.

Yep. Sock pipe is what you want. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

That fifth screw on the hinge is the one you need to adjust, it changes the door closure angle.

No it's all mirrors on top and plastic on the inside- I can gently push it with my hand to close it and it'll align no issue. It doesn't remain closed all the way, it'll ajar about .25-.5" away.

French drain through your driveway so the pool has a place to go and any drain water coming down your driveway won’t flow into your garage. It would start where you drew the blue circle and said it pools

Added the pics to post.

This, then put the rocks back on top

thanks! I've now read about wooden pergola posts possibly rotting. I'm in Alberta, Canada and we get a lot of snow. what would be the best way to prevent this?

The neutral wire will be marked if at all. There will be a dashed line printed on it or raised bumb. Look for any differences between the two.

You can do both, probably should.

Knock down any peaks with a wall scraper blade or aggressive sanding, then skim coat till smooth. Sanding is messy, wear a mask, cover and tape places you dont want dust and test paint for lead first.

Your walls seem fairly flat, so you might be able to forgo the sanding and mess it creates. I would just give it a once over if so, just so a thick paint bump doesn't add 3 extra coats to your skim job

Either way step one is a TVP wash, cleans oils off, makes surface more porous and ready to paint/mud

Buy mud, mix till yogurt like, so a little more runny than the premixed comes. Add water slowly, cannot remove water. A mixing paddle and drill and 5 gallon bucket works fine

Thick roller on a pole is dipped in and applied to wall

Smooth with a wide trowel. I like the 24" rubber edged ones

Let dry, scrape peaks off, repeat till wall surface is all mud, sand smooth, primer, paint

check wall by shining a bright light against the surface, looking for imperfections in shadow cast

Its laborious and tedious, but not hard. Easier and cheaper than replacing with drywall, but not faster

You'll be proficient after a google search and you finish your first wall. Good luck!

You don’t. The texture is inherent to plaster walls. Both sanding or skim coating are absolute bears of projects, and you’d be hard pressed to make it look as good as drywall. Probably just as well to replace the drywall entirely (which is also a ridiculous project).

My recommendation would be to learn to live with it.

They're standard hinges. I'll check on the magnets see if they have some generic type on amazon or home depot. That's a simple idea.

Awesome thank you! Yeah. It's odd because it really doesn't bother my garage much when it rains. Our neighborhood has those little sloped curbs so most of the water is coming from rain landing on the driveway/yard.

I'll check this guy out I don't think I've seen him out thank you!

I agree with you. A half pipe or some other open trench to carry away the water and sediment. It should go directly to your catch basin, which you will have to clean out whenever it get filled with sediment. The open trench should be set below the edge of the walkways. The Georgia clay and silt soil will clog any filter cloth around a buried drain pipe. The trench should be open to allow for easy cleanout.

For the sake of clarity you mean "clean outs" as in one of those attachments that you can open up and clean the debris out right? (I know it's probably obvious but I want to be sure lol)

Foam what? No.