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Bathroom moved along. I wanted to tear out the wood paneling, it wasn't original anyhow. Wife wanted to paint it, but I thought all painted paneling I had seen in the past looked too hillbilly. I was wrong. We chose a real light gray. Started by painting the seams. Then spray painted the...

Hey cmorgan, I'm just southwest of KC, if you're ever gonna be around my neck of the woods, eh, plains, drop me a line. Always beer and BBQ around here.

Looks well insulated and a great place to start, congrats! I went with a track drain at my place, but that's because it was my only choice. My 1918 built house has an old Model-T garage that sits at basement level, with a one story slope going from ground level down to the base of the garage...

Solid looking building! Lusting after the overhead. Wish I had that in my place.

Ok, have to get back to working, but wanted to post some pics of the first project we undertook, the bathroom. The pic of the sink was actually taken at the auction. Wife turned on the water so people outside wouldn't hear her phone camera click. The door pic isn't especially important, but...

My plans for The Station have always been to try and work a 1950's theme into it. Makes sense, it was originally built about 1950 as a Derby Gas Station. I don't have any Derby memorabilia yet, but will. The theme also coincides with my collection of 1950's Craftsman woodworking tools (Red...

You're right power wagon, I haven't been idle! I'm going to try and bring everyone up to date to where I am now, post pics in the order of progress since January. It's a good time for me to begin, I just started working on the garage portion fix-up last month. Not very far along with it yet, so...

We took possession January 1, 2012, but I was already there. Even though we were supposed to go to a New Year's Eve party with her friends, she let me off the hook so I could ring in the new year in work clothes. My first improvement was to hang curtains on the front windows so people wouldn't...

Here's my attempt at a layout to the building. The blue things are doors. So there are three garage doors on the front, and a small one on the side.

So my wife is awesome. The Station was purchased with her blessing, even though she had no idea how bad it was inside. The bathroom was disgusting (her word), the toilet was held in place with a 2x4 between it and the wall. It leaked. It was backed up during the auction. The non-garage portion...

You might have noticed in the pics that there WERE a pair of lifts. They didn't stay. But honestly, think I'd prefer an overhead hoist anyhow. I did buy a few things. My brother and I went in together on a 1960's Vendo Coke machine. Works, but needs a charge. I think we paid $45. I know! I...

We didn't get a whole lot of pictures during the auction, we still couldn't believe it was going to be ours. Felt like we were suspicious-looking. These pics are of the double bay garage, the paint booth garage, and the lean-to addition. You can kinda see the floor is substantially cracked, the...

This is the 1st picture we ever took of "The Station." I wasn't able to take possession until over a month after I purchased it. A looooong month. Fortunately, we were able to visit in December when the former occupant was having his public auction of the contents. That was the 1st time my wife...

Where did I begin before? It's never as good the second time. My wife let me buy the place, with her never having set foot in it, in December of last year. It sits next to our home, so I've been daydreaming about owning it for a decade now. Didn't expect it to come up for sale anytime soon, but...

OK, 1st lesson learned: copy my text before I hit reply. I just wrote a big 'ol entry about the place, but when I hit submit it told me I was no longer logged in. Logged in, but my text was gone! OK, let's try this again...

And here it is.

Here begins the story of my new man cave garage...