Hello, I have been a member on and off for a while and joined when I had a rental house with a garage. I have been living in an apartment for a year and slowly starting to pull my hair out, so I have not been as active.
Some background on me: 23, pretty close to being engaged, and I work on cars for a living. I love building, constructing, fixing just about anything. I started ******** wrenching at 9, and I am now lead restoration and service tech at a local shop. Closest thing to a speed shop as I can find. I love it!
Now onto the garage. I figured Id explain a little bit about myself so you could see what direction I will be taking on this "build".
My parents live about 2 miles out of city limits, however there are a decent amount of houses and people that still live around. Its not the middle of no where, but you have much more space and privacy and get to shoot guns whenever you want. Well the house next to us was bought by the city since they have a bunch of extra money. They are butted up against a seasonal road that they want to expand. I have no idea why since it does not have much traffic for the whole 5 miles it goes.
1/3 of the house would be in the runoff of the road so they decided to remove the entire thing. My parents bought the entire property from the city, to add more land to the existing residence. It came complete with 2 barns. The one larger barn my sister in law turned into an area where she could rescue a horse and use it for lessons, the other I have been using as a storage lot for larger things. Engine lift, mini trailer, blazer im putting a motor in, motorcycle, ect. My plans were to redo it, but almost everything is bad.
This put my hopes on the house garage. 2 car, nice concrete with drains, one opener, decent amount of room.
We talked to the contractor that would be ripping the house down and we arranged that if we could start to separate the garage, they were sure we could keep it.
So, instead of ranting more and more on all the small details, lets do pictures!
Main picture of the house, it has been boarded up by the city so that no one would disturb the inside
The garage!
As you can see, it has already been insulated and dry walled. So its a great start knowing I wont have that much work to do. I plan alot more things to come, but I wont have to do all the little tedious things.
Mid story, now that you have seen the main attraction, I can babble some more. Everything left inside of the home, was ours for the taking. The contractor first came in and grabbed all of the pocket doors, and just some random trim and vents. We went in one weekend and took all of the newer counter tops, fridge, stove, microwave, old solid doors, ect. We also got the central air appliances. most of the counters will most likely be placed in the garage for temporary storage solutions until I can save for more garage looking solutions.
So we began gutting it and starting to seperate the garage
Front door
This went into the garage
Nice little sunroof now!
This was the kitchen where we gutted everything. Most of it is under 2 years old. I took everything including the GFI's and recessed lighting.
And a few shots around the property
The view of the parents house
So the goal is to finally have a place to work on stuff again, especially throughout winter. My 1972 Monte will be stored inside of it. I will have a deathstar engine to pull and rebuild in there, and I have plenty of toys I need to store. So it might not be as big as I would like, but its better than not having it at all. It will be heating and running water ran to it from the existing well. We already have an industrial size heater that will work great and some new electric poles we will have to find a way to set into the ground.
But Im pretty pumped.
Plans, diamond plate cabinets, floor epoxy, paint the wall (color undecided) finish all of the drywall, new lighting system from the kitchen (cool stainless surrounds), drop down vesquene for painting, and more. I also have a 60's era fridge that I will be restoring and upgrading to newer internals for efficiency so my beer stays cold.
Some background on me: 23, pretty close to being engaged, and I work on cars for a living. I love building, constructing, fixing just about anything. I started ******** wrenching at 9, and I am now lead restoration and service tech at a local shop. Closest thing to a speed shop as I can find. I love it!
Now onto the garage. I figured Id explain a little bit about myself so you could see what direction I will be taking on this "build".
My parents live about 2 miles out of city limits, however there are a decent amount of houses and people that still live around. Its not the middle of no where, but you have much more space and privacy and get to shoot guns whenever you want. Well the house next to us was bought by the city since they have a bunch of extra money. They are butted up against a seasonal road that they want to expand. I have no idea why since it does not have much traffic for the whole 5 miles it goes.
1/3 of the house would be in the runoff of the road so they decided to remove the entire thing. My parents bought the entire property from the city, to add more land to the existing residence. It came complete with 2 barns. The one larger barn my sister in law turned into an area where she could rescue a horse and use it for lessons, the other I have been using as a storage lot for larger things. Engine lift, mini trailer, blazer im putting a motor in, motorcycle, ect. My plans were to redo it, but almost everything is bad.
This put my hopes on the house garage. 2 car, nice concrete with drains, one opener, decent amount of room.
We talked to the contractor that would be ripping the house down and we arranged that if we could start to separate the garage, they were sure we could keep it.
So, instead of ranting more and more on all the small details, lets do pictures!
Main picture of the house, it has been boarded up by the city so that no one would disturb the inside
The garage!
As you can see, it has already been insulated and dry walled. So its a great start knowing I wont have that much work to do. I plan alot more things to come, but I wont have to do all the little tedious things.
Mid story, now that you have seen the main attraction, I can babble some more. Everything left inside of the home, was ours for the taking. The contractor first came in and grabbed all of the pocket doors, and just some random trim and vents. We went in one weekend and took all of the newer counter tops, fridge, stove, microwave, old solid doors, ect. We also got the central air appliances. most of the counters will most likely be placed in the garage for temporary storage solutions until I can save for more garage looking solutions.
So we began gutting it and starting to seperate the garage
Front door
This went into the garage
Nice little sunroof now!
This was the kitchen where we gutted everything. Most of it is under 2 years old. I took everything including the GFI's and recessed lighting.
And a few shots around the property
The view of the parents house
So the goal is to finally have a place to work on stuff again, especially throughout winter. My 1972 Monte will be stored inside of it. I will have a deathstar engine to pull and rebuild in there, and I have plenty of toys I need to store. So it might not be as big as I would like, but its better than not having it at all. It will be heating and running water ran to it from the existing well. We already have an industrial size heater that will work great and some new electric poles we will have to find a way to set into the ground.
But Im pretty pumped.
Plans, diamond plate cabinets, floor epoxy, paint the wall (color undecided) finish all of the drywall, new lighting system from the kitchen (cool stainless surrounds), drop down vesquene for painting, and more. I also have a 60's era fridge that I will be restoring and upgrading to newer internals for efficiency so my beer stays cold.
