This is a nice shot of the garage cleaned up....... normally its a mess from metal work and parts laying everywhere! Sent from my iPad using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Only been in my new shop for a year, but I've practically lived in there 24-7 in that time so it looks like it has been an old shop forever just because of the time spent. I'm planning a second floor on top of the shop in the next 3-5 years as I'm already out of space in my 2Ksqft shop .
If you are going to make that garage feel like home, the first thing to remember, is... Keep The Wife Out of it! Before you know it there will be boxes and bags of clothes, kitchen stuff and God knows what all falling all over the place. Women have a way of taking over space with crap that they don't even know where it came from. Not like us with our valuable junk that we will never use but at least its cool.
Your stone walls look cool and would be a huge heat sink for keeping a relatively constant temperature. How are they insulated? I'm guessing PA has a pretty broad outdoor temperature span. Too many projects, haha, how do you decide what to work on?
Nice picture. Really like the black and white it makes it look more late forties early fifties. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Some cheap corrugated tin roofing makes good wallpaper on a wall or partial wall. Then hang your stuff on it.
Two of the shop walls are fully sunk into the ground (like an old bank barn) so the shop is mostly "underground" in the winter it never gets below 40F so I leave the heat off except when I'm working. The roof is a flat metal/rubber roof so it doesn't stay as cool in there as I'd like in the summer, but once I put a second floor on that should block the heat some. Overall I can't complain. I jump around on projects, although one half of the shop is mostly "storage" and are running cars or stuff in storage waiting their turn.
I thought my work space was small but some of you guys have to move stuff before you can even turn around. I am impressed when someone can build cars in a space that a motorcycle barely fits. Don't we all wish we had an airplane hangar to work in?
Hotrodmano, that garage wouldn't be so smallish if your wife didn't have access, haha. Maybe you need a little shed in the back yard for her stuff. See, never having been married and building my 1200 sq. ft. shop when I was in my mid/late 20's (36 years ago), I can get away with saying that, haha.
No wife in my house. No stuff from my girlfriend either. Sent from my SM-G930F using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
My mistake, now that I notice your avatar your garage doesn't look so little. You were fooling us a bit, huh, haha. You might still benefit from a shed.
it does not happen overnight. Takes years of acquiring stuff. My garage was quite pristine when I built it 20 years ago. Now there's overspray and stuff on the walls, more tools. Just takes time. Filling the garage was not a plan, it just happened. I'm planted in there most of the winter except for Fridays when I'm shooshing down the slopes
Yeah ditch the garage doors and build some big barn doors for it. Would insulate it better in the heat!
My shop currently... It's got room for three cars and an office area where I keep things clean. I've been in this shop for two years, started with nothing in it, and it's already too small! I hope to have a "shop house" of some sort eventually. I've found that hanging parts up saves a lot of room, makes the parts easier to find, and it looks cool!
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