Moving in and making it mine, my 32'x23' detached

So after many years of planning to buy a place with some land and space for a shop (for me) and a barn (for her) we finally pulled the trigger. It figures that when I redo my old garage and get it nice that it's time to move and do it all over right? We have been driving by this place every day for years and when it came up for sale it was way out of our range. After being on the market for a while and discovering that it was a foreclosure we knew this was our chance to stay in the community and get the space we were looking for. It's sitting on 6 acres that is already fenced for DW's 2 horses and cut our commute in half. While it doesn't have a barn yet, that will be in the plans in a few years.

The old garage (build in my sig) was a 21x21 with cramped space for 2. The new is a 32x23 with 3 bays, an upstairs, and a covered back porch. The plan is to use the left bay as my workshop space, the middle bay as my current active project, and the right bay is for my ongoing 76 Scout II project.

There is an upstairs that has a big room to the front, a smaller room to the rear and full length storage rooms in the eves. It has a 100A electric service branched off from the house. It has a covered back porch too. Downstairs has been drywalled with no insulation which sort of ***** but all it needs is paint. The upstairs has been partially insulated and the drywall is stacked against the wall waiting to be put up. There is insulation between the floors.

Lots to do to get it feeling like home but I figured I'd start a thread that I can keep up with instead of waiting till it was all done.

Here's a few general picts. This is probably the only pict I will ever have of my entire truck in there.

Here's some shots of the upstairs. I'm not sure what the big room is going to be used for right now. When I started moving in all the loose stuff went upstairs to be dealt with later. I'm still sorting through everything.

Awesome space.

Congratulations, I think you made a good decision.
Very nice corner of our globe you got there

Congratulations on the new residence! I just read through your old thread, it will be interesting to see how you go about configuring the new place!

Thanks guys.

So far the projects that are in work or completed are....

-gutted the original sub panel and installed a 100A 24 space box with main.
-wired in a 50A plug for my big welder
-wired in 2 separate 4 gang boxes (one on each column between the garage doors) 20A plugs for 110v welder or plasma
-beginning work bench wall
-painting
-unboxing stuff, moving stuff around, re-arranging stuff
-wired in (3) 8' T-8 light fixtures with 4 bulbs each. 2 more on the way
-ran wiring for the 5000w Farenheat heater that should be here any day now.
-organized the chemicals closet
-bought a tractor
-built a firewood/canoe/ladder rack
-put unistrut on the east wall and made my steel storage racks off that
-took the PO's wooden hanging racks off the beam

I'm taking it one wall at a time. The ideal way to do it would have been to paint the entire place BEFORE I moved in but like so many of us that wasn't an option. This past summer was absolutely insane with buying this place in May, fixing it up enough to move into, moving out of the old place, fixing the old place up to sell, then the selling process.... all while on about 50% travel with work. 2012 was a crazy year. It has just been in the past few months that we've really been able to start unpacking some things and getting settled in.

AndrewnTX said:

Congratulations on the new residence! I just read through your old thread, it will be interesting to see how you go about configuring the new place!

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Thanks. I'll definitely be doing some things differently. As much as I loved the galvanized roofing on the wall, most of it ended up being covered up and was sort of a pain. I'll be painting the lower portion of these walls a sort of battleship gray, and the upper a semi gloss white, both in exterior paint. I'll have a black 'chair rail' to separate the 2 colors, to protect the wall, and give me a place to mount stuff to.

Here's one of the few picts I took moving my shop stuff. I spent 3x more time/effort moving my shop than I did moving the entire rest of the house.

Thankfully I had my gantry to pick up and move most of the big stuff. I had to borrow an engine hoist and a pallet jack to move some items. I don't want to move again for a LONG time.

Something showed up on my doorstep this afternoon.

How about an update? How many toys are in it now?