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Normally I don't like HF's stuff (too many experience with products that fail), but this might be a good cost-effective alternative. For some of the modular bin cases you can gang them together in a row on the wall. Or, with the cases or the individual parts sorters you can always, you can...

Yeah, thanks for tipping me off to this site, Kizer. One more place to take up too much of my time. :D BTW, I'm almost read to move our "stuff" back into the office. Just did the edging for the formica for the top of the bookcase, install the electrical outlets, and lower doors. Just need...

I can't speak for the OP but for me I'd stick it out back so that it couldn't clog up my yard and make my property feel pinched or crowded. I'd like having the open ground between the house and garage. I am doing a similar siting for the shed I'm building right now. However, I'm also on a...

Bunch of little things happening on the project. This last week I've tried to make some progress setting up the batter boards (no picture of these yet) with some rough measurement first, now i need to go back and do final measurement. Had to re-set about half the batter board stakes because...

One of our current projects has the same style of cabinetry in the "art barn" but out of Oregon walnut. They look VERY nice. That project uses a 10" x 10" timber frame of old-growth reclaimed VG fir that was pulled out of a local warehouse. The framing looks amazing, like one giant piece of...

Hi guys! More pictures below. These aren't the "final photos" but they were taken towards the end of construction. I work for an architecture firm and we did the design on this house. I didn't have any personal involvement but one of my co-workers helped on it and we are a close knit...

Looks great. Awesome color pallet.

:+1: Sorry but I gotta agree. And the hardiplank products aren't bad. They take paint very well and, IIRC, if you paint them according to Hardie's specs they have a 50 year warranty. As for pricing. . . It's close to $1 / sf for the material whether you get it in big panels or as...

Hm. Cool project but I think I would have rented a slide-hammer puller from the auto parts store for $6 and had the axle shafts out the same day. :D But it's much cooler to fab up your own tools. Props for tackling that.

And BTW . . . :+1: I figured for my project it was worth the cost difference to run the plywood instead of the OSB. At ~$3/sheet difference this worked out to only an extra $150 over the total cost of the project. I've seen OSB crumble too much and too often to be terribly enthusiastic...

I picked up 50 sheets of 1/2" plywood recently for my shed project. . . a bit over $15 / sheet (which was running ~$3/sheet more than the OSB around here (Seattle area). When I did the estimate pricing for my project a few months ago plywood was running ~$12.50 / sheet. The same has happened...

It's not a garage but still very cool. I work in a local architecture firm in Seattle and it looks like one of our firm's projects made the April 2010 issue of Fine Homebuilding. Just sharing the link: Fine Homebuilding Article Reference I can post up a couple other images if anyone is...

Actually, nearly all materials move. Wood changes greatest based on moisture content that shrinks and swells the wood fibers. With other materials such as steel, glass, concrete, etc you need to watch for thermal expansion. I was in Spain once and had a chance to see one of Satiago...

You might be able to pour on some cementious leveling compound. It's a cement-like consistency when finished but it "self levels". And it can be poured on very thin an feathered out. If you have thicker spots (deeper pitting and such) or you need to build up the thickness then you simply do...

That's exactly what I was talking about. Nice job on the trim. The thing to keep in mind is that wood does change dimensions with the moisture content of the air. Not only that but there are different rates of movement depending on the grain direction. The most stable dimension is the...

I realize this is a bit late in the process but any chance you located your new shed close to the old garage? If so you could link them with a breezeway or even simply connect them. That way you'd have a weather protected connection between the two structures.

This is the inside of the office I work at. I work as an architect. Nice, relaxed place.

That looks great with the corrugated roofing. I'm glad you posted some photos of the other vent blocking. It's given me some ideas to use on my own project. Drilling a few holes and then connecting them with a saber saw would be much easier than trying to notch things square. Everything is...

The concrete cures via a chemical process. . . . not through evaporation. The vapor barrier you have on there will have no effect on the curing time. +1 for all the other comments regarding keeping the slab moist. One way to do so is to spray it down with a hose every so often. The other is...

Continuing to bust up the concrete slab. Last night I tried jambing some wedges under the edge to put some upward pressure on the concrete. It didn't save any time factoring the time it took to set the wedges. But it made breaking up the slab easier. I'll keep using the wedges. By the end...