Lets see your garage/shop or any dream garages!

[jasonL78]

To me there is a garage to work on your cars and a garage to store your cars. A big difference in space.

[Canuck]

The earlier tread is my home garage, strictly for parking a car and doing some cleaning and under the hood stuff. These photos are my "workshop", 800 sq ft bay as part of my business in a light industrial park.

Parking for three cars, or two with comfort.
6000 Lb Hoffman twin screw hoist
Sandblaster.
Three phase compressor
Press
Tools
Storage
memorbilia.
40" LED TV with full cable and HD

[PxTx]

Nice equipment! Three phase power is great to have, and the twin screw lift- sweet. I've thought about installing a VFD so I could have a twin screw lift at my house. I can think of a few other things that would be nice too, like one of those quiet/insulated compressors without a storage tank. For now, I have a 3 car garage for storage but my dream garage is only a set of plans I paid an architect to design. Hoping in the next 1-3 years it will become a reality.

[JackOlsen]

I second the recommendation for the www.garagejournal.com.

I've got a small suburban garage (20'x21') and I put it together with a pretty low budget. I learned as I went, doing all of the work myself -- including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift.

The total budget, including the floor, cabinets, benches and lift was less than $3,500. Everything you see is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.

I do automotive work in it, and also some carpentry and metal fabrication.

I also made a website for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com

(This is not spam. I don't make any money off of the website and pay for it out of my own pocket.)















Work benches that fold down from the wall:





There is no 911 that's been lowered too much to fit on this lift. And there's nothing to trip over when the car is out.





And it's got its own a video:

The 12-Gauge Garage Video

And yes, a video just about the lift I put in:

My Garage Lift

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.



But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img]

[Verne_Frantz]

I like the rotary phone [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[Fast67VelleN2O]

Jack I saw your garage in Car Craft. Killer!

[mockingbird812]

Great stuff Jack! Saw yr beauty over at garage journal before and you must be very proud. Like your color scheme too!!

[ORIGLS6]

Same here. I've been hanging out on the GJ for quite a while. Jack has some killer ideas and is always willing to offer suggestions and bits of wisdom.

Glad to see you here Jack. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[subyman99]

Thanks for all the pics! lots of awesome ideas, I love that old porsche, thats on my list of buys one day also.. Looking good guys, lets keep em coming!

Matt

[olredalert]

----I must have missed it, Jack. Where is the fridge??? Gotta be there somewhere. Not a good garage without a fridge. A buddy of mine in Scotsdale has a urinal on one wall because he got tired of going on the cactus outside. Kinda liked the idea!!!......Bill S