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Pete, the London Mews are fantastic -agreed! I do aspire to owning one if my numbers come up - great properties and with great history. Martin, thanks for your kind words -I am very keen to do improvements that fit and look right, but also use modern materials if correct to do so. As an...

Cheers for all the great feedback! Have you managed any further work Mark? Or is the weather holding you up? I have just managed to finish the cobbled drive, I have now replaced all the tarmac, concrete and slabs with the cobbles, and opened up the bottom of the drive - it was a bit too tight...

7m wide, 5m deep in garage section, 3.5m in workshop section. The Mews Garage - http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102265

It's a 2004 Caterham Seven My second one, I had one 1996-2004, and then I got this one this year 'cos I missed the other one so much!

Cheers! Of course - being in the states with your enviable space, I would be looking at picking up some style ideas from Greene and Greene or Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed some of the best architect houses in the US. Check out 'The Robie House' (3 garages!), The Blacker House, and the...

When you broke up the roof into different elements the whole design suddenly 'pinged' and looked superb. This is the secret of great design (imo), using traditional ideas to 'hide' the bulk of what is a large building. The roof slopes over the master bedroom are great, breaking up that huge...

Well I hope tool bag is acceptable in this thread - I don't have a tool box! You guys are all tool freaks like me - so I hope you'll understand. Let me explain, I have tried every type of tool bag, tool box, tool belt and I find all have limitations, mainly around the fact that you have to...

Hi Mark - I love this 'Cottage Garage' - so much potential! When you brick these windows up, are you planning to recess the brickwork, and then have 'false' windows? You could paint them to look like real windows - aka 'Portmeirion',, I think this would like awesome as you drive up your...

Turbo - My last garage had a painted floor - it's fine for keeping the dust down, but that's all in my opinion. Also the concrete needs to be bone dry for the paint to stick. And it wears out. So, all in all I would go for the tile again in a flash, the advantages of the warmth and dust control...

A reminder of the existing layout - And the proposed layout if my numbers come up...

Mark, your thanks are welcome, I love your 'estate' and the myriad possibilities you have too. My thumbs were itching looking at your cottage, and I am very glad you are turning it into a workshop or garage! Your post reminds me to mention that deciding which jobs to do yourself, and which to...

Is that the same 911? If so - top marks for the backdating! I would love one of those!

That's the strange thing about UK planning permission, I also frequent the UK Workshop forum, and they also mention this 'has to be non combustable' if less than 1m from the boundary rule. But in very street in every town one can see sheds of all sizes that clearly don't conform. I am a...

Coho911 - Then go get one - the Caterham 7 is the best bang for buck - no exceptions. Mine cost less than a family hatchback. Just do it!! ;-) Grizz - Thanks for the kind words - I have also followed your thread with great interest - we need to stick together being on the same side of the pond...

I reckon this is one the best workshops on here, and a perfect size too. Not to big, not too small! I really rate it - well done that man!

Hi Baz, My last garage was a 20x10 timber building. It had a single engineering brick base, and a damp course membrane. I got a slightly larger roof (so the roofs were each an 8 foor sheet, so it had a larger than normal overhang. That garage rocked! It was naturally warm and dry, no...

I have resisted posting pictures of the outside, as the cottage was a real mess, 1970's mismatching windows, render damp and falling off, roof tiles broken, damp courses missing or damaged, missing airbricks, guttering broken or missing, the list goes on. After 18 months of work, it has had the...

Yep - well spotted! A cracking car to drive, 11 years old, 70,000 miles, I purchased it brand new, and still have no desire to replace it.