Modern Jess
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The Back Story
About a year and a half ago, my wife and I started looking around for a house closer to where I work, in Silicon Valley. My commute was killing me, and the one thing I always wanted (and never had) was a garage of my own. To make matters worse, I acquired a bad scooter habit about six years ago, and parking a bunch of bikes out on the street (and at work, and at my rented workshop) was, errr... problematic. As we started looking at houses, I started realizing that a plain two-car garage in the suburbs wasn't going to cut it, and that I would need a garage and some workshop space to boot.
The suburbs of Silicon Valley (at least the stuff we could afford) aren't known for their vast acreage, though. I figured that if I was going to get a workshop, I would have to find a house that already had one built. After looking at no less than 800 houses via satellite view, I finally found one that met all our needs, and had a bonus two-car detached garage in addition to the usual ranch-style attached garage. This thread is just for the attached garage. The detached workshop in the back is quite literally another thread entirely, which I will eventually post when I make some more progress on it.
The Garage, Today
Let's start with the money shot. This is the garage as it stands today, pretty much finished. Oh, and some pre-emptive answers to the questions that haven't been asked yet:
- Yes, that's carpet. It's garage-specific, petroleum resistant, and can be hosed down with no problem.
- The door on the back of the garage is in fact four feet wide, the better to ride through (to the workshop) without doing the mirror dance.
- Yes, it's very clean. All the dirty work happens in the workshop out back. The garage is just for parking. And laundry.
- Yes, scooters rock. I ride motorcycles too, but generally prefer to ride my scooters.
- 70MPG. 80MPH. No, seriously.
About a year and a half ago, my wife and I started looking around for a house closer to where I work, in Silicon Valley. My commute was killing me, and the one thing I always wanted (and never had) was a garage of my own. To make matters worse, I acquired a bad scooter habit about six years ago, and parking a bunch of bikes out on the street (and at work, and at my rented workshop) was, errr... problematic. As we started looking at houses, I started realizing that a plain two-car garage in the suburbs wasn't going to cut it, and that I would need a garage and some workshop space to boot.
The suburbs of Silicon Valley (at least the stuff we could afford) aren't known for their vast acreage, though. I figured that if I was going to get a workshop, I would have to find a house that already had one built. After looking at no less than 800 houses via satellite view, I finally found one that met all our needs, and had a bonus two-car detached garage in addition to the usual ranch-style attached garage. This thread is just for the attached garage. The detached workshop in the back is quite literally another thread entirely, which I will eventually post when I make some more progress on it.
The Garage, Today
Let's start with the money shot. This is the garage as it stands today, pretty much finished. Oh, and some pre-emptive answers to the questions that haven't been asked yet:
- Yes, that's carpet. It's garage-specific, petroleum resistant, and can be hosed down with no problem.
- The door on the back of the garage is in fact four feet wide, the better to ride through (to the workshop) without doing the mirror dance.
- Yes, it's very clean. All the dirty work happens in the workshop out back. The garage is just for parking. And laundry.
- Yes, scooters rock. I ride motorcycles too, but generally prefer to ride my scooters.
- 70MPG. 80MPH. No, seriously.
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Very cool garage. I am only 7 mi from work and have proposed to my wife I ride my bike to work, that resulted in a big frown and a positive "not on your life mister" I am in Modesto and its not a very bike friendly city. Maybe she would go for a scotter.
