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Here are some pics of my 19x22 shop behind my house. A little background first though. My wife and I had given up on house hunting because we could not find anything we liked in our price range. One day after a hike we were driving to my sister's house and decided to follow some signs to an open house. My only two stipulations on buying a house was that it not have a pool and that it had a garage. This house had a one-car garage, so we decided to take a look. I walked in and looked through the door to the garage and saw that it had been converted into a bedroom. Big letdown. They left the garage door on the front of the house but converted the garage to a master bedroom with a walk-in closet. I pretty much wrote the place off...until I walked out back and saw pure awesomeness. My wife came out to find me staring at the inside of the shop and told me that she wanted to make an offer on the place. Fast forward a few months...
Well, the interior did not look like this until months later. The shop itself is roughly 19x22, with 10 foot walls. The peak of the ceiling is 14 ft. The doors are accordion style, giving plenty of light and room to pull in a vehicle.
The garage was already wired with a sub-panel. Two dedicated outlets on 30 amp circuits, plus a string of about 6 outlets along the rear wall.
It was all studs when we bought the place, but I have been scoring plenty of cheap and free bits and pieces to from various places set it up how it is now.
Here is a breakdown of the humble build so far:
Peg board lining entire interior was FREE, and already black. I scored this from a business remodel. It was dumpster-dive style and I scored about 14 full sheets and 8 half sheets.
Slat wall was FREE. Left over from a garage sale near me. It was in 11 ft x 2 ft lengths, but when I got them home I realized that once I took the edge frame of it came apart into 7 ft and 4 ft lengths. No cutting required for the actual boards.
Overhead storage, pull-up bar, and workbench all FREE. My mother decided to clean out her condo garage and take the cabinets out. All the storage in here garage was rigged together with lag bolts, 2x4's and plywood. I salvaged all I could and re-purposed it for my garage. My workbench is actually 3/4 ply that served as a shelf for all of my junk in my mom's place before I bought a house.
The vise was given to me by my father-in-law. It belonged to my wife's grandfather.
The large work-table in the middle came from my grandfather's house in Idaho. My dad brought it to Socal when his father passed. I had it stored at my sister's place until a few months ago. It is 4x8, has wheels on two legs, and is sturdy.
The blue shelving unit in the back was already on the property when we moved in. My awesome wife painted it and I put the peg-board sliding doors on it.
The Craftsman project cart was an estate sale find. $60. Made in USA and in great condition.
You can see the wood that I used to cover the pit. Yeah, a pit. The realtor filled it in with concrete chunks for some reason. Could have been because the original cover was more dangerous than an open pit, all rusty and sharp. could be because of insurance reasons. But it was probably because he didn't think anyone would ever use it. I don't build project cars, but I do all of my own mechanic work and plan on eventually digging it out.
So far I have bought a quart of blue paint, one pack of pegboard hooks, osb for the top of my rolling bench, and the tool box. Everything else has been free.
I plan to finish off the bottom few feet of the walls with drywall, build more overhead storage, hang the rest of my bikes, and get a pub table in there. I also want to put doors on my workbench and finish the interior with some trim work to match the gray that the drywall will eventually be.
Thanks for looking.
Well, the interior did not look like this until months later. The shop itself is roughly 19x22, with 10 foot walls. The peak of the ceiling is 14 ft. The doors are accordion style, giving plenty of light and room to pull in a vehicle.
The garage was already wired with a sub-panel. Two dedicated outlets on 30 amp circuits, plus a string of about 6 outlets along the rear wall.
It was all studs when we bought the place, but I have been scoring plenty of cheap and free bits and pieces to from various places set it up how it is now.
Here is a breakdown of the humble build so far:
Peg board lining entire interior was FREE, and already black. I scored this from a business remodel. It was dumpster-dive style and I scored about 14 full sheets and 8 half sheets.
Slat wall was FREE. Left over from a garage sale near me. It was in 11 ft x 2 ft lengths, but when I got them home I realized that once I took the edge frame of it came apart into 7 ft and 4 ft lengths. No cutting required for the actual boards.
Overhead storage, pull-up bar, and workbench all FREE. My mother decided to clean out her condo garage and take the cabinets out. All the storage in here garage was rigged together with lag bolts, 2x4's and plywood. I salvaged all I could and re-purposed it for my garage. My workbench is actually 3/4 ply that served as a shelf for all of my junk in my mom's place before I bought a house.
The vise was given to me by my father-in-law. It belonged to my wife's grandfather.
The large work-table in the middle came from my grandfather's house in Idaho. My dad brought it to Socal when his father passed. I had it stored at my sister's place until a few months ago. It is 4x8, has wheels on two legs, and is sturdy.
The blue shelving unit in the back was already on the property when we moved in. My awesome wife painted it and I put the peg-board sliding doors on it.
The Craftsman project cart was an estate sale find. $60. Made in USA and in great condition.
You can see the wood that I used to cover the pit. Yeah, a pit. The realtor filled it in with concrete chunks for some reason. Could have been because the original cover was more dangerous than an open pit, all rusty and sharp. could be because of insurance reasons. But it was probably because he didn't think anyone would ever use it. I don't build project cars, but I do all of my own mechanic work and plan on eventually digging it out.
So far I have bought a quart of blue paint, one pack of pegboard hooks, osb for the top of my rolling bench, and the tool box. Everything else has been free.
I plan to finish off the bottom few feet of the walls with drywall, build more overhead storage, hang the rest of my bikes, and get a pub table in there. I also want to put doors on my workbench and finish the interior with some trim work to match the gray that the drywall will eventually be.
Thanks for looking.
