Does your garage look like this?

[Fireball]

Well mine should but... <-klik

[hkestes41]

Are you serious?

How would anyone work in such cramped quarters? Besides it looks like Fred Sanford lives there.

[greg g]

I was just about to put up my wainscoating, beaded paneling, and rub rail when the damn stock market tanked. So I had to lay off my maintanence crew, and been forced to rip out the wood work, and tile floors. Alas I am back down to bare concrete floors, OSB walls and standard floursent lighting from a constructins site dumpster.

I also needed to sell my Ferrari's and Maseratis and they have been replaced by Plymouths and Studebaker.

Poor Poor Pitiful me.

I have put in a request to the DIY channel to have the Garage Mahal guy come and do a Make over................

http://www.diynetwork.com/home-improvement/guy-fieris-off-the-hook-garage/pictures/page-3.html

[Dennis Hemingway]

Does your garage look like this? No, but it's getting close. I only need a couple thousand dollars more.

Dennis:cool:

[Arthur1947]

Does your garage look like this? No, but it's getting close. I only need a couple thousand dollars more.

Dennis:cool:

I like your garage Dennis. Don't get carried away with the travertine flooring and fancy wood paneling;) I saw a bottle of wine in one of those garages. Thats plain WRONG!!!

Best.

ARTHUR

[1949P17BC]

Mines getting closer, 30 by 48, 18 foot front door, 10 foot on the other side, 1 man door, 10 foot ceilings, Last week had the concrete floor poured and sealed, putting in wood furnace as we speak, started on the work bench and parts racking. Moved in two spare motors, inventoried my spare transmissions, rrear ends, spring drive shats etc etc. Hope to move the 47, 48 and 49 in by Christmas.

[baldbusdriver]

garage? is that french or something? all I got is a termite infested carport. at least it has a cement floor.

[Norm's Coupe]

Dennis,

That's a nice clean garage. I try to keep mine that way too. Looks like you could use some more electrical wall and overhead outlets though, so you wouldn't need that long extension cord.

[Powerhouse]

HA...my house doesn't even come close to those! NOT that I'm complaining. I'm guessing those garages aren't much but pretty parking spots...not how I use my garage...that area gets VERY used. Needs a cleaning this weekend too.

[Norm's Coupe]

It's easy to keep a garage looking nice and clean like Dennis' garage looks, and still use it everyday. All you need to do is put things away immediately after using them. It doesn't take that long if you do it every time you use something. And, by putting things away, you know where they are the next time you need it. Plus, if some other project comes up tomorrow, you don't need to clean up the shop before doing that other project.

[Powerhouse]

TRUE...if i didn't always put tools back at the end of use...I'd have a pretty unusable space. And it would drive me nuts! Since I share the garage with my wifes fabric and such...it would mean certain death to me If a greasy tool was in the wrong spot...hahaha

[Norm's Coupe]

TRUE...if i didn't always put tools back at the end of use...I'd have a pretty unusable space. And it would drive me nuts! Since I share the garage with my wifes fabric and such...it would mean certain death to me If a greasy tool was in the wrong spot...hahaha

Sounds like you need to put your foot down like I did.;) We only have a standard 2 car garage. Use to have all kinds of garden stuff the wife uses, etc. in the garage. Then, I moved all of that to the shed (except her car). Told her the garden tools belonged in the shed, not the garage. The house was her shop and the garage was mine. Then she said, she used a couple of things each day and it was too much trouble to put them in and out of the shed almost everyday. So........I gave her a little corner about 2 feet by 2 feet to put that stuff into. That was about 3 years or so ago. It's funny, but that area seems to look more like 4 feet by 2 feet now. For some reason, it keeps expanding.:D

[Dennis Hemingway]

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That's a nice clean garage. I try to keep mine that way too. Looks like you could use some more electrical wall and overhead outlets though, so you wouldn't need that long extension cord.[/quote']

I have added the electrical outlets, some storage shelfs and a 4 post lift. It is not as clean now as it was when the photo was taken.

Dennis:o

[JIPJOBXX]

I'm so jealous! I had plans drawn up to have a small enclosed garage built but our local planning commission dealt me a full set of jokers. To make the story short I went to get my building permit but in 10 minutes they wanted to send someone out to check my drain field (I won't go into details about that). But I decided that I was not going to have the county come over to my place and tag out my house for a drain field that might not work up to there specifications. I had a friend that had an inlet pipe to his drain field run over and he could have fixed it for next to nothing but!!!! the county got there nose into it and he had to have a new drain field built at a cost of over 13,000 dollars. He was not a happy camper!

So as for me I just went home and built what you can see in the picture in a matter of two weeks. I have had this up for over four years and no county inspectors have ever bothered me for building it. It works but I really wanted something to keep warm in but it works for me!!!!!

[Norm's Coupe]

So Jon, I've seen those grow walls before. I'd let it slowly grow walls, then an overhead door. If the county came out and said you did not have a permit to build a garage, tell them it's not a garage, it's a storage shed. Just don't put a driveway to it.

[Plymouthy Adams]

I would like to double the size of my shop...need the room...