El Matador
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So I’ve been lurking around here for a very long time and getting inspiration from all these amazing builds. I don’t have much in the way of experience with home renovation, but I do have an amazing ability to underestimate the scope of work on a project and wildly overestimate my own abilities to complete them; strap in, this should be an interesting ride.
I’m a big racing fan, mostly Motogp and Formula 1, and dabbled in motorcycle racing when I was young and too stupid to know I was not, in fact, indestructible. Anyways, one of my favorite disses of all time came after Valentino Rossi made an ill advised pass on Casey Stoner and took him out of the race. Stoner’s response was legendary: Obviously, your ambition outweighed your talent. The build is named after that because it’s absolutely fitting to me in this case.
The main factor keeping me from this build has always been the lack of time, I travel a ton for work and never felt that I had the chance. Covid means I can’t really do my job, and after moping around the house for the first couple of weeks of quarantine, I decided to use my time more productively than watching tv and feeling sorry for myself; and really, what’s a better use of my time than giving all my money to Home Despot?
This is my first house and I bought it for my then fiancé (now wife) and I in late 2015. I wanted to buy a small warehouse with attached living quarters and a very industrial feel. The fiancé wanted a small house, centrally located and a very cozy ambiance. Compromise is key in all relationships, so we met right down the middle and ended up with a small house, centrally located, and a very cozy ambiance.
In all honesty I’ve really fallen in love with the place and am happy we ended up where we did, but I still fantasize about a warehouse full of toys and a cot at night.
The house did come with a nice little detached garage (19’x18’) which I immediately declared was to be only for two wheeled vehicles and working on projects.
This was the last time my garage looked even remotely presentable.
I would have loved to finish it at the time, but with having just put down a down payment and buying furniture for the living quarters, I was already terrified at the state of my bank account. Also, pro-tip, don’t marry an architect, you’d be amazed at the ways they can find to spend money on house stuff. Do you know what a hanging candle sconce is? Neither did I, but apparently, they’re entirely indispensable and about 40 bucks a pop. SMH.
See, the main reason for my warehome fantasy is that I have a pretty wide range of interests and hobbies, most of which are pretty equipment intensive; which means I’ve collected a ton of **** of the years.
The space needs to fit the following purposes
1- Workout space – The wife and I both enjoy weightlifting
2- Bicycle storage – Once you start getting into bikes they’re like Doritos, you cant have just one. Over the years we have collected 7 of the damned things. They take up a ton of real estate
3- Workshop – I live for tinkering. I need to be able to work on stuff to stay sane.
My main reasons for needing a workshop
This is a 1976 Series 3 Land Rover that I did a restomod on over the last couple of years. It was an awesome way of learning more about cars and general light fabrication
This is my 2008 Ducati 1098 that was my race bike for a few seasons. Sadly it's been collecting dust for the last couple of years (marital bliss) but I'm planning on getting back into it soon.
As you can guess, that’s a ton of stuff to cram into a 342sqf area. I think I’ve found a way to fit everything and make sure it still looks somewhat nice. Anyways, without further ado, here goes.
First thing’s first, in order to play garage tetris I needed to build a model of the space and realize what my actual needs were. I went to school for mechanical engineering and took some CAD lessons there, which I then proceeded to never use again. So I figured, how hard can it be? The answer is actually, pretty damn frustrating. Oh well. My architect wife got to have a grand old time making fun of me while I figured how to make the blasted thing do what I told it to. Also, the free version of sketchup is absolute **** that freezes every single time it saves. Seriously, I almost hurled my computer at a wall several times.
This is what we came up with. The squat rack folds against the wall and opens the space up quite a bit for the punching bag and general walking around space.
The main advantage of modeling everything out is that I have access to visualize the space and do some quick dimensions for everything. I figured I’d take a leaf out of Sakurama’s book and make some custom cabinets. He can knock like 3 of those out in an afternoon, how hard could it be?
I’m a big racing fan, mostly Motogp and Formula 1, and dabbled in motorcycle racing when I was young and too stupid to know I was not, in fact, indestructible. Anyways, one of my favorite disses of all time came after Valentino Rossi made an ill advised pass on Casey Stoner and took him out of the race. Stoner’s response was legendary: Obviously, your ambition outweighed your talent. The build is named after that because it’s absolutely fitting to me in this case.
The main factor keeping me from this build has always been the lack of time, I travel a ton for work and never felt that I had the chance. Covid means I can’t really do my job, and after moping around the house for the first couple of weeks of quarantine, I decided to use my time more productively than watching tv and feeling sorry for myself; and really, what’s a better use of my time than giving all my money to Home Despot?
This is my first house and I bought it for my then fiancé (now wife) and I in late 2015. I wanted to buy a small warehouse with attached living quarters and a very industrial feel. The fiancé wanted a small house, centrally located and a very cozy ambiance. Compromise is key in all relationships, so we met right down the middle and ended up with a small house, centrally located, and a very cozy ambiance.
In all honesty I’ve really fallen in love with the place and am happy we ended up where we did, but I still fantasize about a warehouse full of toys and a cot at night.
The house did come with a nice little detached garage (19’x18’) which I immediately declared was to be only for two wheeled vehicles and working on projects.
This was the last time my garage looked even remotely presentable.
I would have loved to finish it at the time, but with having just put down a down payment and buying furniture for the living quarters, I was already terrified at the state of my bank account. Also, pro-tip, don’t marry an architect, you’d be amazed at the ways they can find to spend money on house stuff. Do you know what a hanging candle sconce is? Neither did I, but apparently, they’re entirely indispensable and about 40 bucks a pop. SMH.
See, the main reason for my warehome fantasy is that I have a pretty wide range of interests and hobbies, most of which are pretty equipment intensive; which means I’ve collected a ton of **** of the years.
The space needs to fit the following purposes
1- Workout space – The wife and I both enjoy weightlifting
2- Bicycle storage – Once you start getting into bikes they’re like Doritos, you cant have just one. Over the years we have collected 7 of the damned things. They take up a ton of real estate
3- Workshop – I live for tinkering. I need to be able to work on stuff to stay sane.
My main reasons for needing a workshop
This is a 1976 Series 3 Land Rover that I did a restomod on over the last couple of years. It was an awesome way of learning more about cars and general light fabrication
This is my 2008 Ducati 1098 that was my race bike for a few seasons. Sadly it's been collecting dust for the last couple of years (marital bliss) but I'm planning on getting back into it soon.
As you can guess, that’s a ton of stuff to cram into a 342sqf area. I think I’ve found a way to fit everything and make sure it still looks somewhat nice. Anyways, without further ado, here goes.
First thing’s first, in order to play garage tetris I needed to build a model of the space and realize what my actual needs were. I went to school for mechanical engineering and took some CAD lessons there, which I then proceeded to never use again. So I figured, how hard can it be? The answer is actually, pretty damn frustrating. Oh well. My architect wife got to have a grand old time making fun of me while I figured how to make the blasted thing do what I told it to. Also, the free version of sketchup is absolute **** that freezes every single time it saves. Seriously, I almost hurled my computer at a wall several times.
This is what we came up with. The squat rack folds against the wall and opens the space up quite a bit for the punching bag and general walking around space.
The main advantage of modeling everything out is that I have access to visualize the space and do some quick dimensions for everything. I figured I’d take a leaf out of Sakurama’s book and make some custom cabinets. He can knock like 3 of those out in an afternoon, how hard could it be?
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I have been to the Jerez round too Can't wait for the season to get started 
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