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87handmedown

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Not even two months ago I closed on my first home. It was a small farm lot that came with several buildings aside from the house including a 24 x 32 detached garage and a 40 x 60 Morton style building. I was walking through Lowe's as I needed to get some things to fix up the house when I stumbled upon this magazine

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I noticed this site was mentioned in one of the articles and decided to check it out. I then became fixated to my computer as I drooled over many different ideas and designs that so many of you, much more creative than myself, had come up with. A few weeks later I finally looked up from my monitor and decided that I needed to start planning things to make my dream garage a reality! Since my 24x32 doesn't even have a concrete floor in it yet, I'll be basically starting fresh. I look forward to learning so much from many of you on here and hope that I can help others out as well.

Oh and Jack Olsen, what you have done with your garage is just unbelievable. To be able to store so many things and have so much table top/counter space in an otherwise restricted garage takes true ingenuity and resourcefulness. I am jealous.

Don't even get me started on the 1930's garage resto. My face had a completely shocked look on it the entire time I read the article.
 
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Hey, thanks for the kind words 87handmedown -- and welcome to the GJ.

The garage on the cover is by a guy who goes by XcYZ. It's one worth checking out, if you haven't already. And of course there are dozens of others on this board that are flat-out incredible.
 
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87handmedown

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Hey, thanks for the kind words 87handmedown -- and welcome to the GJ.

The garage on the cover is by a guy who goes by XcYZ. It's one worth checking out, if you haven't already. And of course there are dozens of others on this board that are flat-out incredible.

The compliments are well deserved.

Yes, I've founds all the build threads from all the garages that had articles written about them and then some. I've been lurking on this site for about 6 weeks now. This place is unbelievable and the creativity that some of the members here exhibit is definitely worth noting. I can't wait to start building my garage.
 
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87handmedown

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Wow your the only person I know of so far on Garage Journal that is in/near McPherson. I am currently at McPherson College for the automotive restoration program here.

Wow that's awesome! We're in our own little oasis out here in central Kansas, haha. How many years do you have left?
 
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87handmedown

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Well the automotive restoration program at Mac college is definitely top notch so I think you picked a great place to come and learn.

You by chance wouldn't happen to have a truck would you? I need to find/make a friend with a truck. :p j/k... but serious. I'm sporting two mustangs and a motorcycle right now and I've come to find out that they just don't do that well when it comes to construction/home renovation. Oh well, there's bound to be a truck for sale somewhere around here. We are after all, living in rural Kansas.
 
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