50x100 Garage with Living Quarters

[smg980]

Been perusing the forums for years. After a year of purchasing new property, it was just a matter of time and money that a building would be put up. Here begins my journey of building a 50x100 building. 25x50 will be the living quarters, and the remaining 75x50 will be the garage/shop area.


Here are a couple photos of the building site.

Building staked.

Starting the ground scraping to remove the top soil.

Build site prepped for footings.

Footings poured.

Stay tuned for wall progress coming soon.

 

[Rui Duarte]

I can't see the pics!

 

[Nighttrain]

Can't wait to see this. I can see more and more people doing this.

 

[Punchwood]

I see black Xs.

 

[ADSR]

Subscribed.

 

[kyle@hcb]

Beautiful location!

 

[smg980]

Are the photos too large? Still trying to get the hang of this. Had to switch from Flikr to Imageshack and also needed to reduce image sizes.

 

[ADSR]

WOW! Nice piece of land!

 

[PUREVIL]

Looks good!!!

 

[JCQuick]

The pics are to big slows the page down a lot

 

[k-os]

Are the photos too large? Still trying to get the hang of this. Had to switch from Flikr to Imageshack and also needed to reduce image sizes.

They're really big even on my monitor at 1920x1080.

 

[Picwik]

Photos are huge. I can see them but I have to scroll around to look at them.

 

[AirJunky]

Very cool. More & more of these type buildings being setup here on GJ.

So what kind of plans are you planning? 25x50 is about 1250 sq ft. Is this all on the ground floor? Will you have an upper level? Heated floors? Where are you located? Hope to see more pics of your place.

Subscribed!

 

[Frank N. Stein]

awesome property! Illinois?

 

[justbummin1]

Its to small you better double the size! Kidding of course (kind of) so what part of the world is this in? I see a nuke cooling tower in the background. We need more info!

Rob

 

[NWOhioChevyGuy]

Those type of cooling towers are used at larger coal fired plants as well. Was one of the first things that caught my eye, sell into most of those coal burner plants for work.

What river / body of water are you near?

Nice looking plot of land.

 

[smg980]

Its to small you better double the size! Kidding of course (kind of) so what part of the world is this in? I see a nuke cooling tower in the background. We need more info!

Rob

Rob,
You are correct. That is a nuclear plant in the distance. I am up near your neck of the woods in North West Illinois near the Rock River.

 

[smg980]

Wall forms are up. Hopefully the picture sizes are also better.

Views into the building.

Inside the wall forms with rebar.

 

[98XJ]

nice project

 

[Wooden Hot Rodder Garage]

You are living my dream, Room for 3-4 cars, nice shop , and a place to call home. Cannot wait to se it done. Good luck , measure twice cut once.

 

[justbummin1]

SMG,

Welcome to garage journal! I drive through there everyday on my way to work in Rockford from about a hour west! You have a GREAT PROJECT that will be fun to watch. Keep posting and be prepared for all the "help" you will get here cause we love to spend your money

Rob

 

[NUTTSGT]

Rob,
You are correct. That is a nuclear plant in the distance. I am up near your neck of the woods in North West Illinois near the Rock River.

Would that be near Cordova ?

Great start to a nice build.

 

[smg980]

Actually its about an hour and a half north east from Cordova.

 

[ihredo4]

Looks like the Byron towers. They would be 20 miles from me in Baileyville. Howdy Neighbor.

 

[polexican23]

My parents are in Sterling, but only have a small 7 acres. Still wont let me build a zombie fallout shelter there.

 

[justbummin1]

SMG, So whats the plan for this are you going to actually live here as well or just be able to? Do you have any design stuff you can share? We just need more info! If I can ever convince my wife that we can sell our current house you are doing exactly what I want to do. BIG *** garage/shop and a place to eat and sleep.

Rob

 

[CNGsaves]

Beautiful farm setting . . . . Love it !!

Your footers and wall forms are highly evident that you're DOING IT RIGHT the first time !!

Curious if the big garage is taking out an old alfalfa field??

 

[justbummin1]

Bueller? Bueller? Whats going on did we scare SMG away?

 

[SkipsShop]

looking good

 

[nsogiba]

great start, i'm sure there is more progress by now. gorgeous area, and all that peace and quiet!

 

[Tinkerinmatt]

What's the budget on the building? I'm trying to convince my wife to let me buy 10-20 acres and do this same type of thing.

 

[davo727]

Byron Nuclear plant right? Im from up there, used to ride some motocross at the Byron track

Rob,
You are correct. That is a nuclear plant in the distance. I am up near your neck of the woods in North West Illinois near the Rock River.

 

[smg980]

Budget for the building is actually more than the property itself, although it isn't just going to be a pole barn/building. Building size is planned to be 50x100x18 so that we can have two floors comfortably. I will be going with radiant floor heating throughout the entire building, and with the SIP panels it should be a tight envelope. Overall building progress has been put on hold as the one crew we are familiar with is booked with the rise in construction until December. All concrete work has been completed except for the floor which will be poured in early spring once everything else has been completed.

Until December...

 

[C. Smith]

Any more progress?

 

[Shoester]

Any updates smg?

 

[revamped]

Looking Forward to lurking around watching your build... mine is 2 years away.