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The disaster garage (shop)

Rileysan

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As I stated in my introduction after finding this forum, I knew I'd fit right in. Along with all the great information this site provides are some threads showing off unbelievably beautiful shops/garages. My garage, however, should be declared a federal disaster area.

Having grown tired of living in the City of Portland, I moved into a smaller home in a small town with my family. My old house had a 36X24 shop with a loft for storage. The new house has a "2 car" garage that has a quarter of it walled off for an office. The rest of it is split into my "shop area", storage, dog kennels, and canning pantry.

Whenever I want to work on a project, I have to roll a couple things out the door and clear off the work bench. After ~18 months of working like this, I'm starting to get antsy and will begin making changes in order to address my shop needs.

The first project is to build a lean-to shed on the North side of my garage. The shed will have barn doors that swing wide open to reveal my radial arm saw and so-on. I am choosing that location because of the close proximity to the electrical panel in the garage. I will update this thread as I make progress.

I welcome any ideas/links/threads anyone might have for building my woodworking/storage shed.

In the meantime, feel free to share pix of your disaster garages - I need to feel better about myself.

Cheers!

Brian
 

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Rileysan

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Do you need an RAS and a chop saw? Can you eliminate the walled off office? Just a couple of thoughts.

I can always find a way to justify owning multiple saws :) But seriously, I will be using both. Once set-up, the RAS will be used more often than the chop saw but I don't want to get rid of the chop saw simply because of the mobility.

As for the office, my wife uses it for her hobby/business of jewelry making. I'm hoping that once our oldest daughter moves out, we can turn her room into an office for my wife at which time, I will turn the garage office into my woodworking shop. No telling when (or if) that's every gunna take place!

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What's the old car in the first picture? Plymouth Satellite? Do you have any better pictures?
 
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Rileysan

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What size of addition are you planning.

Calling it an addition would be a stretch. I don't have a lot of room to work with, but the North side of the house is available (10' between house and cedar fence). I was thinking of adding something like this that is at least 10' wide and 4' deep.

Brian
 

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What's the old car in the first picture? Plymouth Satellite? Do you have any better pictures?

The car is my 70 Ford Galaxie 4dr. 390 built with Comp "4x4 extreme" hydraulic cam (519 lift), Performer intake, 600 AFB carb, MSD 6AL, MSD billet dist, headers, 2 1/2" 40 series flowmasters with aluminized exhaust, C6 with 2500 stall converter. Runs 14.0s

The poor car hasn't been raced in 5 years :(
 

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Don't fel bad, man. My shop started out looking like the about 6 weeks ago. Most of my work has been purging and reorganizing at this point. BUt I've been chipping away at it slowly

There are lots of guys who have made great workspaces with very little.

HSpencer http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183123

Sean Buick 76 http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238537

Both of these guys have moved their woodworking to small sheds in the back yard and done a great job of setting it up
 

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Leaflessshadetree

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Cabinets and shelves for all the stuff that is stuff. (BTW: If it isn't "garage" stuff then the cabinet or shelf shouldn't be in the garage).
Dumpster for all the stuff that isn't.
Then you can actually have a chance of seeing what you have to work with.
 

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Looks like my garage. I move one thing and something else usually falls down and has to be cleaned up. To get at a tool usually involves moving three other things out of the way. I am landlocked, so a shed is in my future.
 
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