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I have three cars in a two car garage, AND a hostile wife.
I can see why you keep her in the garage, then.
Originally Posted by hlee96
Ed, what type of overhead storage racks did you put in your garage? I am thinking of doing the same thing to take advantage of the high ceilings.
Six Hyloft 540 45" x 45" units (got mine at Amazon.com). They're light duty compared to some other units I've seen; I'd probably use something heavier-duty if I were to do it again.
K got a pretty free hand in outfitting the rest of the new house. In return I had a relatively free hand in spec'ing garage space. I put in everything she asked for, but of course there is spillover.
Two-bay 'normal' car garage, deepened by 8 additional feet. Next to that is a single door workbay 20+ feet wide, 30 feet deep. 10+ foot ceilings, with a vaulted ceiling at the front that captures the garage door nicely when it's up so no lift clearance lost when the door is up. We put in jackshaft openers, and extra-insulated doors. Whole garage has uprated insulation. My guidance for the contractor was "It's my living room. Same finish quality there as in the rest of the house." I had an epoxy floor at the last house, but it chipped and scratched under the roller jack and stands, and tire marks were a constant annoyance. New garage has porcelain tile flooring throughout, with epoxy grout that doesn't stain. I added a dual-zone mini-split heat pump that's shared with my office (next to the garage), and also a gas-fired condensing furnace that hangs at the vaulted front space, for use when outside temps drop below what the heat pump likes. I'll post pics after the new cabinets are installed in the next few weeks.
K got a pretty free hand in outfitting the rest of the new house. In return I had a relatively free hand in spec'ing garage space. I put in everything she asked for, but of course there is spillover.
Two-bay 'normal' car garage, deepened by 8 additional feet. Next to that is a single door workbay 20+ feet wide, 30 feet deep. 10+ foot ceilings, with a vaulted ceiling at the front that captures the garage door nicely when it's up so no lift clearance lost when the door is up. We put in jackshaft openers, and extra-insulated doors. Whole garage has uprated insulation. My guidance for the contractor was "It's my living room. Same finish quality there as in the rest of the house." I had an epoxy floor at the last house, but it chipped and scratched under the roller jack and stands, and tire marks were a constant annoyance. New garage has porcelain tile flooring throughout, with epoxy grout that doesn't stain. I added a dual-zone mini-split heat pump that's shared with my office (next to the garage), and also a gas-fired condensing furnace that hangs at the vaulted front space, for use when outside temps drop below what the heat pump likes. I'll post pics after the new cabinets are installed in the next few weeks.
Not showing the working garage, which serves far too many purposes to ever be neat.
Instead, I'll show my car-storing situation. On the left is our house, with a two-car garage underneath (warm). The Smart Car goes under a deck in summer, but goes into the garage for the winter, behind the Cayman - sideways. The motorcycle fits in there, too, but in summer I keep it in an old shed (built in the 1920's to store cars, incidentally).
The 928 normally lives in the workroom in the back of my studio, where I have the MaxJax. I don't do a lot of photography anymore, so this building is mostly given over to messy hobbies. In fact, a carpentry project has forced the 928 outside for a few days.
My wife's brother owns the house across the road, but lives in NYC. When he comes up, my wife provides him with a screaming yellow Cobalt POS so we don't have to loan him a good car. The color gives a suitable alarm to other drivers. This car is kept in the house garage. My Saab is kept in the detached garage. There's actually room for one more vehicle. I could keep the truck there in the summer, I suppose, but it's the snow vehicle in winter.
I'll post pics after the new cabinets are installed in the next few weeks.
Patience, grasshopper!
The workbay is still stacked at the back wall with garage storage/moving boxes. When I packed the previous garage, I labeled each box with "where it came from" along with a description, so there are boxes with drawer and door/shelf numbers. In the previous garage, I stored most stuff in upper shelf cabinets in clear plastic storage bins, labeled with contents. So a bin might have "fiberglass supplies" or "hot melt stuff" on the label. Boxes of bins have the same descriptions on the outside, so for the most part I've been able to find things as I need them. Less than ideal in the big picture though.
New cabinets are coming from a local-to-me garage/shop/lab/etc. cabinet builder, looky at www.baldheadcabinets.com to get an idea. Rob Edwards went with Saber cabinets in his garage expansion and I like those, but they are now built in China and there's absolutely no flexibility on design or from the very short list of their standard colors.
Meanwhile, Baldhead is adding 18"-deep upper cabinets to the 150 cabinet line, so all my 17"-deep plastic storage bins will fit. That's service that just isn't available from most places. Plus they will deliver and install them. They offer that installation country-wide, by the way; cabinets are shipped, and the installation team shows up, picks up the cabs from the nearest freight terminal, brings them to your place and installs them. I've found nothing but great reports from satisfied customers.
I'll start a separate thread with pics to document the install process. Everything will be wall-mounted, even the base cabinets, so easy to clean underneath with no easy places for winter rodentia to hole up. This is likely my last workshop garage, so it needs to be right.
08-19-2015 | 01:34 PM
