On Tuesday I climbed into the attic and started work on my dream garage - or as much of a dream garage as I can get out of our existing garage on a $500 budget. I'd love to see as many pictures and get as many ideas from everyone on their dream garages, and what are "must haves" for a good shop. Post 'em!
Starting with a 3 car garage - 2 bays 18 feet long and 1 bay 26 feet long. The basic plan includes:
1. Raise the ceiling to at 10+ feet over one bay to fit a lift. Then I can park a car on the lift, and back the '54 Chevy 3600 underneath!
2. Vault the ceiling to 16 feet over the other two bays and install some good quality shop lights - not those flourescent pieces of junk. Plus, makes a good rainy day basketball court!
3. Relocating the stairs up to the house slightly to get more wall space - then setting cabinets into back walls of the garage (the house is built on a slope)
4. Electricity, air compressor, and beer tap drops throughout the shop. Move the air compressor to under the house with a large auxilliary tank to save room! Beer will be supplied through the wall from the refrigerated keg in the wine cellar.
(Reality/humor check: I have neither a refrigerated keg on tap, nor a wine cellar at this time. A guy can dream...)
5. Pre-wired speakers and TV cable drop, just in case the game/race is on while I'm workin' on Daisy. (Daisy is the truck!)
6. Curtain (plastic sheeting on a track) between 2 of the bays, so I can keep dust and junk out of the "clean" side when sanding, painting, etc.
So did I miss any "must haves" for a good shop? Send in them pictures if you got 'em...
-Boyo
