powellscooter
Active member
Hi Everybody, I`m Scooter, I found this site after I started doing some research on garages. Heres my story, I have been garageless for 15 years but still working on stuff, building motorcycles, pinballs, jukeboxes, gaspumps, cars etc out of my 10x10 shed. Current project cars are VW bug and VW bus. I live in northern Arizona, in a town thats about a 60/40 mix of mobile homes and stickbuilt homes. The mobiles are on long narrow lots on regular streets with yards and trees etc. I have a double wide on a regular lot but not a lot of room to build a shop/garage. Over the past years the mobile next door has come up for sale a few times and I always said I should have bought it but never did. The last owners were absentee except for a few vacation visits a year. Perfect neighbors! Last Labor day when my family returned from camping I noticed the neighbors had taken their boat, and told my wife,either they broke the boat or they giving up the vacation house. My wife and I want a home gym, I want a shop/hangout for friends and a garage to work in. My wife and I scoped out the housing market in town and decided we really like our home as we`ve done a lot of remodeling and its paid for. We looked over the place next door and found there was a perfect room for the gym. The master bedroom will be a guest room,the other 2 rooms will be for storage. The kitchen will be the bar/grille hangout, and the living room will become a workshop. There is a covered 10x40 concrete patio on the side which I will enclose for the garage. Part of the back yard will be parking for my boat and camp trailer. So after negotiations with the owner we bought the place. I have taken some pics which I will post here and update as we go. My build wont be anywhere as stunning as Utahs Bunker but I think it will fit our needs quite nicely. Let me know your thoughts