hewey
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So we recently sold our house and have moved into a rental in a modern house. The new place has a 30sqm (322sqft) double garage, which after 2 years of effectively not having a useable garage or shed is really awesome! At our old place my tools were literally stored under our bed because I had nowhere else to stash them.
The challenge for this space is that it really needs to work for a range of uses – storage (5 bicycles and a heap of parts, camping gear, garage and garden tools, paints), car parking (for my wife’s new car which we’ll be buying soon), workshop space (wood working, general maintenance on stuff, sign painting and anything else I come up with). Once you start looking at all of these needs it starts to look pretty tight!
The other challenge is that it is a rental. There’s a double power point in the back wall, a single overhead light, and that’s it. In the entire house there isn’t a single hook on the walls, not a single plant in the backyard, so it all points towards the tenants not having many options to be able to do things to the house. That’s fair enough, it’s just a parameter I need to work within, so restricts me from doing things like attaching cabinets to walls. Also we don’t know how long we’ll be here, so not looking to invest in anything we can’t take with us!
So this is the current state of the garage, literally just backing up the moving truck and unloading heaps of it into the garage. Nothing is stacked properly and it’s really inefficient. So my challenge is to sort this out so that I can get a workspace, storage and park a car in here! Will be an interesting challenge, but looking forward to it.


My wife has just started a new job, which means we now get weekends off together. Previous to this she’s only had one weekend off a month, and since January every weekend has been ******* with the house sale and move. So on the weekend we took a drive down South from Sydney to a place called the Southern Highlands. We love just turning up a random country road and seeing what we find. And we find things like this track which lead to half a dozen farms and featured a few different creek crossings.

The challenge for this space is that it really needs to work for a range of uses – storage (5 bicycles and a heap of parts, camping gear, garage and garden tools, paints), car parking (for my wife’s new car which we’ll be buying soon), workshop space (wood working, general maintenance on stuff, sign painting and anything else I come up with). Once you start looking at all of these needs it starts to look pretty tight!
The other challenge is that it is a rental. There’s a double power point in the back wall, a single overhead light, and that’s it. In the entire house there isn’t a single hook on the walls, not a single plant in the backyard, so it all points towards the tenants not having many options to be able to do things to the house. That’s fair enough, it’s just a parameter I need to work within, so restricts me from doing things like attaching cabinets to walls. Also we don’t know how long we’ll be here, so not looking to invest in anything we can’t take with us!
So this is the current state of the garage, literally just backing up the moving truck and unloading heaps of it into the garage. Nothing is stacked properly and it’s really inefficient. So my challenge is to sort this out so that I can get a workspace, storage and park a car in here! Will be an interesting challenge, but looking forward to it.


My wife has just started a new job, which means we now get weekends off together. Previous to this she’s only had one weekend off a month, and since January every weekend has been ******* with the house sale and move. So on the weekend we took a drive down South from Sydney to a place called the Southern Highlands. We love just turning up a random country road and seeing what we find. And we find things like this track which lead to half a dozen farms and featured a few different creek crossings.

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I can just hear what mine would be saying right about then.









The new Electra build will be even better for riding with no guards, alloy frame, and a 3 speed hub.







