How do you use your garage?

[1stChoiceGarage]

I have recently joined this forum to find out some new ideas on how some people use their garage. Lots of people work on their cars, some use it as a man cave, with a T.V. and a couple of couches, but I am hoping to discover some creative ideas that some people have come up with on how they use their garage.

After several years of building film sets, worked with plenty of celebrities on some pretty large feature films. I noticed that almost every garage I saw was a complete disaster so with this in mind I decided that the garage was a great place to focus my skills at, so 1st Choice Garage Outfitters was born. Since then, I have helped hundreds of homeowners get themselves organized, and I have joined this website to help the members here with some issues I may have encountered along the way. I know there are plenty of knowledgeable members here already. That's another great reason why I decided to register for this forum, I am here to learn as well, I learn new things every day.

 

[Jagmandave]

Even tho they all have basements, it seems almost all of the homes around here use their garage as a storage facility and park their cars outside. I can't understand why they have so much stuff that it has to overflow into the garage space too, but that seems to be how it is.

Me, I use mine as a garage first - a place to park the car safely and out of the weather. I also use it as a shop to do repairs on cars and other equipment, and it certainly stores my tools and such. But it's still completely usable as a garage.

I'm all for organization but it seems some guys are more concerned with how it looks than how it functions. I have no problem with this, mind you - to each his own, but for me, it needs to be what it was designed for - a place to park the car.

I would love to have a separate shop, so that I could park just the cars in there and not have to worry about bumping a door against something or whatever.....fortunately I have a long side to one of the bays of my garage that functions as my shop area, leaving the parking part fairly open.

BTW, welcome to the forum!

There are some simply amazing garages and shops here, and some really clever guys and girls too!

 

[1stChoiceGarage]

I have a friend who has a car lift on 1 side of his 2 car garage and on the other a couch and coffee table facing the exterior wall and a giant screen TV for his viewing pleasure. Cool place, not too much in there at all.