Recent content by Chris Stack

For the short term, keeping the rafter storage is pretty important to me. I keep seasonal things up there, like my winter wheels for the S2000, golf clubs, kids’ sleds, and my collection of scrap lumber and conduit that I’m always pulling a piece down to do an odd job. Longer term I need to...

Have a new house and new detached 2-car, about 30x25. Living in Chicagoland obviously it gets cold here, and heat would be nice. POs were nice enough to insulate the garage walls nicely, and run a gas line to the far corner of the garage outside, so I’ll be adding a gas heater soon. They did...

Don't confuse quality with aesthetic choices. Putting drywall over cinderblock does not necessarily add quality, it's just a different aesthetic choice. In my case, it would be a push; you'd add insulation (good) but subtract space (bad). I need space more than I need the ability to not wear...

One side advantage of the "industrial" look is that more lighting is simple to add with some conduit tapcon'd into the cement :) Thanks. Come to IL, my block is about 40 houses, and about 35 of them are the same model as mine. It is interesting though, the house was built in 59, so all of...

The thing I've kind of fallen for is the oiled look of the ceiling joists. I'm going to clean them up and pull out all the extraneous hooks and nails and **** that's accumulated over the years. Of note, this is the "winter" configuration of my workspace over there, with the (borrowed) power...

I've got a shed, which allows me to stash all the lawn stuff + snowblower. I'm going to rip it down and build a new one in a year or two, one with a more traditional roofline (like the neighbor's in the pic) so I don't give up so much vertical storage. We'll see if I go through the PITA factor...

Ditto.

1 daily driver, 1 toy car (S2000) minimum 50% of the year. Sometimes the S2000 is stored offsite for the winter and the other DD is stored in the garage in its place. I'm less worried about matching the garage with the cars than I am with matching the garage with the house. The house is a '59...

I don't plan on using that man door regularly (car is currently blocking it) but I also am not interested in removing it; I'm okay with just leaving it blocked, given that I have the man door on the back wall that is used regularly as patio access and to let the dog out.

Note that I'm not talking about "clean and neat" versus "messy and cluttered", I'm talking about do I clean it up and leave it rustic (unpainted, exposed walls) vs "modernizing it" with white painted walls, checkerboard floors, etc.

This is what I'm dealing with. Virtually no "setback" on the right side of the garage, plus a careless wife getting a toddler out of the right side of the SUV means I don't want to give up any side to side room (figure 3-4" to frame out the walls for insulation + covering, and you'd have to...

My garage is small enough as it is, I can't really afford the space to insulate. I store my fun car off site about 50% of winters anyways so I can get the two DDs out of the snow, garage is basically just for storing cars in the winter, and for projects and fun in the fall/spring/summer.

That's one I had in mind when thinking about what to do with mine.

I moved from a new (2007) house to an older (1959) house recently. My newer house had a fully drywalled, white painted, relatively spacious garage that I decorated in cheap but common "car guy decor", couple flags from carmakers, some framed Porsche posters, etc. Modern tool cabinets, etc. My...

Took possession of the house, garage is empty but dirty and grungy. Goal is a minimalistic approach to adding stuff to keep allowing two cars in. Power wash and paint to come. Wife's ride needs to be in there too.