Garage Project Almost Finished

[Ron Austin]

This is my first time to post, but I have been watching other peoples projects and I have really enjoyed and appreciated all the hard work. I've got a lot of photos so I won't be able to post them all tonight. I will also attempt to post them in the order of progress. Enjoy!

The rear of house and old garage before project

The front of garage and parking area

Side of old garage

Inside of old garage

Another inside shot

Gas pump- Before

Just starting project in March 2005

This is the new "toy room" 14' deep x 22' wide

Steps to pit/tractor parking in the motorhome section

Motorhome section with pit. Pit is 32' long x 4' wide x 42" deep

Toyroom stem walls

Framing of Toyroom

Rear wall of motorhome section ( 16' walls )

Note 48" doorway for tractor/mower driveout

Motorhome door (12' high x10' wide )

Motorhome section is 14' wide x 40' deep with 14' ceiling

Restoring gas pump. Note new hickory cabinets

More pump restoring. The unfinished wall is now gone and open into motorhome section.

Finished exterior rear with tractor driveout. Note new deck connecting house and garage

New deck leading to toyroom

Toyroom door out to deck

Toyroom to main garage

Exterior finished in August 2005. The gas pump lights up at night.

The overall garage is 40' deep x 36' wide. We just finished this week, installing a 4 ton 80,000 BTU forced air furnace in the attic. Has 2 returns and 8 registers. Sure nice to have some heat in there. The next project is to blow in the attic insulation.

We still have a lot of finish work on the interior and toyroom. We are currently building a very large diorama in the toyroom and will post pictures of it when finished in about 2 weeks. Actually, myself and a friend are hoping to start a little business doing dioramas and dimensional pictures.

I apologize for this thread being so long, but it should give a pretty good overviw of the project.

 

[JMURiz]

I think any garage with that car (the power wheels, haha) in it will look cool, can't wait to see the new pics.

 

[foo king zo6]

Nice cars, i have #859 GS.

 

[KCHOTBOAT]

Post some more pics of the cars when you get a chance. Garage looks great

 

[Down Under Bloke]

Great garage; how does the pit for the mower and tractor work under the motor home?

How did you come up with that idea, any chance of some pics.

 

[Ron Austin]

Great garage; how does the pit for the mower and tractor work under the motor home?

How did you come up with that idea, any chance of some pics.

The property has a natural 42" elevation drop from the front of garage to the rear. I wanted someplace to park my John Deere (tractor/mower) and didn't want to take up garage space. It was a natural to put in a walk out/driveout pit. When the motorhome is parked, I can actually back in and drive out with only having to bend my head down a few inches when going under the rear bumper. The city wasn't real crazy about the pit when I applied for the permit. The had never had anyone put one in a residential garage before, but they finally agreed.

I can't take any pictures right now as the motorhome is all the way back against the rear door. I am working on a large playhouse for our granddaughter and it is between the front of motorhome and big garage door. I hope to have it done in the next couple weeks and will take some pictures.

 

[Ron Austin]

Post some more pics of the cars when you get a chance. Garage looks great

We had a business building 1/2 scale mini Vettes until 9/11. People just weren't spending money on (big toys) so we ended up shutting it down. The silver car in the garage was a replica of an '85 that my sister had at the time. After she sold it and bought a '94 Roadster, I also made a mini version of that one too. The mini Grand Sport was a car that we built for a customer. The other pictures are of my '63 with the entire powertrain, interior, suspension and electronics fom '96 Grand Sport #0300.

 

[autoist]

All the garage photos are just red "X's"!

 

[Ron Austin]

All the garage photos are just red "X's"!

I'm not sure what the problem is. It sounds like something at your end as no one else has said they can't view them.

 

[hitek]

I'm not sure what the problem is. It sounds like something at your end as no one else has said they can't view them.

I see the same thing???

 

[RonBou]

I get the red x also. When I try a direct link (copy/paste) I get a phot buckey page saying that the photos are not found.

 

[Matt2point4]

Looks like they're dissappeared from photobucket, they're certainly not in your albums.

 

[Ron Austin]

Re: Garage Project Almost Finished-Fixed the pictures

Sorry for the mess up, but the pictures can now be viewed

 

[Matt2point4]

Now I can see the photos I see what you mean about your mower pit, that's a brilliant use of space.

 

[cdrewferd]

Great garage. That pit is probably the best use of space that I've seen in a while. Great idea to be able to put them out of the way and not worry about working around them.