Hi Everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself. I've been a lurker on GJ for a very long time, but never really had anything to share until recently. I'll be reorganizing my garage this Spring/Summer after many years of neglect so I thought I'd create an account and share my process with the community.
First a little background: In 2011 my wife and I decided to move from Pearland to Sugar Land (suburbs of Houston). I had a very nice 4 car tandem (2x2) garage with tons of space and I was not happy about having to give that up, but my wife worked in Sugar Land and she wanted the kids to go to school there so we started looking. It wasn't too long before we came across a house that I immediately fell in love with... well, the garage anyway. It was a 3 car wide unit that was almost tandem in depth (30'x30' to be exact) with a garage door on the back. It was in the neighborhood my wife liked and the location was great. It's tucked away in a private cul-de-sac with no back neighbors. The house was 'acceptable' as she put it, but it had a pool which I didn't really want to have to take care of. We made an offer anyway and closed in August, a week before my son started kindergarten.
It turns out this builder did several homes with the extended garage in this neighborhood. My neighbor to the left of me has the same size garage as I do and there's another home in the subdivision with the same as well.
This is what the garage looked like before I moved in. This was the picture from the original listing.
I'll be putting up a post in the Gallery soon with what I've done so far and what gets done while I reorganize. See you then!
-John
First a little background: In 2011 my wife and I decided to move from Pearland to Sugar Land (suburbs of Houston). I had a very nice 4 car tandem (2x2) garage with tons of space and I was not happy about having to give that up, but my wife worked in Sugar Land and she wanted the kids to go to school there so we started looking. It wasn't too long before we came across a house that I immediately fell in love with... well, the garage anyway. It was a 3 car wide unit that was almost tandem in depth (30'x30' to be exact) with a garage door on the back. It was in the neighborhood my wife liked and the location was great. It's tucked away in a private cul-de-sac with no back neighbors. The house was 'acceptable' as she put it, but it had a pool which I didn't really want to have to take care of. We made an offer anyway and closed in August, a week before my son started kindergarten.
It turns out this builder did several homes with the extended garage in this neighborhood. My neighbor to the left of me has the same size garage as I do and there's another home in the subdivision with the same as well.
This is what the garage looked like before I moved in. This was the picture from the original listing.
I'll be putting up a post in the Gallery soon with what I've done so far and what gets done while I reorganize. See you then!
-John
