Another New Guy! This one from WNC

[Smokey]

That would be Western North Carolina!

Found this board while searching for recommended stocking levels for nuts and bolts (how's that wording for: Hmmm, wonder how many of these I should buy?)

Anyway once I found it, it's hard to leave! Fantastic board with lots of helpful folks and a ton of great projects under way!

Wish I had found this board about 5 years ago when we built our current place, but them's the breaks. On the plus side, I've got some great ideas for the next place.

Oh and about those nuts & bolts......

Thanks!

 

[Smokey]

Ok, Time for Pic's

Our place is a modified Cape Cod Modular on a full basement (only 2 posts and one huge glue-lam) My wife and I finished the basement and 2nd story and did all the tile, marble and hardwood flooring on the first floor. We also did the front porch 8x50, the side porch 8x24 and the back deck 20x16 so when it came time to do the garage and porch roofs I opted to sub it all out. Plus I didn't want to have to do the shingle work on a 12x12 pitch roof!

Garage is 24x32 and with the truss system I have a 12x32x6 high' storage area upstairs. The slab is a standard footer + block wall since we had used some fill to keep them both on the same grade. The top course of block is open to the inside so that the floor pour could fill the cells and lock it all together.

Here is the framing crew working on porch roof with the poly and wire down waiting for the concrete to arrive:

Mid way through completion. See why I didn't want to do the shingle work!

Work complete and crew gone. Still had work to do i.e. landscaping, but it was looking like home! I also had a pad poured on the side of the garage and the gable wall framed to allow me to put up a shed roof over a planned woodshop.

How it sits today, more or less:

It's a detached garage but attached via a breeze way, if that makes sense. You can see I lost my woodshop, but my wife gained a greenhouse. Small price to pay for a real shop at our next place.

I've installed a few small workbenches around two of the side walls that give me room to tinker.

Before starting a project:

Mid way through 2 or more projects:

Recycled kitchen cabinets and a resurfaced cheap steel shelving unit makes for a nice place for the chopsaw and a grinder and to hide my growing number of car parts.

If you're still here..........thanks for sticking with me! LOL

Off to go wash the cars.

 

[72blckbuty]

Welcome to the board from Mid-MO!

 

[springfan]

Hey Nice Build...Noticed the Mini's in the garage, what year are they? I have an 06 MCS HO Convertible...

 

[Smokey]

Welcome to the board from Mid-MO!

Thanks

Hey Nice Build...Noticed the Mini's in the garage, what year are they? I have an 06 MCS HO Convertible...

Well............at one time we had all the production years covered except 03.

Mine is an 02, wife's is an 05, adult son has a 04, and our adult daughter had an 06 for about a year. I've replaced hers with my 75 model, so our world is back in Mini balance. I'm thinking real hard about the new Clubman

 

[Bevis]

welcome....

 

[Smokey]

welcome....

Thanks! I think I'll enjoy my time here

Mine is an 02, wife's is an 05, adult son has a 04, and our adult daughter had an 06

Here is a shot of my 75 model after I did the roof, hood and pin stripes and one of when the kids were up for a visit: