Jey
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I bought this house 2 years ago. I used to be into building trucks, and whatnot, but time, money, getting married, etc changes our objectives.
Currently I've been into old Japanese motorcycles, because they're cheap, and don't take up much space. We unfortunately couldn't find a house that suited both of our desires that had a 3 car attached garage. Although it was disappointing, there are other more important factors in life, like affording the house payment, and being realistic.
We have a side entry garage, and it leaves the ability to add a garage at the end of the drive in the long term prospects. We just had our first child (he's 18 days old now), so ... that might be a pretty long term project.
Anyway, here's what i've done thus far.
First, i piled a bunch of **** into it:
I was finishing our basement at the time in the winter, so no time to do anything. I scored the cabinets from work for free. You'll find, i like free.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out my tool box situation. I have a 26" snap-on roll cab at work that I use, but lightly. I was looking at the craftsman 42" stuff, and I just couldn't get off my wallet. Then, this lower box ended up on sale for like 200 bones at harbor freight... couldn't beat it for $/in^2. Ended up getting the upper a few months later for the same price. Figure the tools that are in it I would rather spend more on than the box. And, it's nice enough for a hobbyist at home. The drawers are a little shallow is my biggest gripe. But, it's almost full, so... eeeh!
Anyway, fast forward a few months. I used the scrap wood from the basement finishing project to get my cabinets mounted:
The counter top i found at my buddys house as he had new counters installed that week, SCORE (Free).
Added some 4 x 4 lights that also came from work, i got 10 fixtures, and only ended up using 4 of them thus far. That changed my life. Light is great.
Here's a current over view, i added a shelf above the tool box for those power tools that don't get used a lot, but not worth hiding too far away...
In the future i need to do some more organization. I have a lot of **** in the garage that needs to be put somewhere else. The garage has a huge pitch, and they didn't build it with attic trusses, so maybe someday i will look at what i can do, I could gain a 16x8 room up there if i tried hard enough
But, time is limited and I would rather finish my current bike project:
1973 CB500/4 - Kinda Street Tracker
Web Cam, Bored to 605, and some other go fast goodies.
Currently I've been into old Japanese motorcycles, because they're cheap, and don't take up much space. We unfortunately couldn't find a house that suited both of our desires that had a 3 car attached garage. Although it was disappointing, there are other more important factors in life, like affording the house payment, and being realistic.
We have a side entry garage, and it leaves the ability to add a garage at the end of the drive in the long term prospects. We just had our first child (he's 18 days old now), so ... that might be a pretty long term project.
Anyway, here's what i've done thus far.
First, i piled a bunch of **** into it:
I was finishing our basement at the time in the winter, so no time to do anything. I scored the cabinets from work for free. You'll find, i like free.
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out my tool box situation. I have a 26" snap-on roll cab at work that I use, but lightly. I was looking at the craftsman 42" stuff, and I just couldn't get off my wallet. Then, this lower box ended up on sale for like 200 bones at harbor freight... couldn't beat it for $/in^2. Ended up getting the upper a few months later for the same price. Figure the tools that are in it I would rather spend more on than the box. And, it's nice enough for a hobbyist at home. The drawers are a little shallow is my biggest gripe. But, it's almost full, so... eeeh!
Anyway, fast forward a few months. I used the scrap wood from the basement finishing project to get my cabinets mounted:
The counter top i found at my buddys house as he had new counters installed that week, SCORE (Free).
Added some 4 x 4 lights that also came from work, i got 10 fixtures, and only ended up using 4 of them thus far. That changed my life. Light is great.
Here's a current over view, i added a shelf above the tool box for those power tools that don't get used a lot, but not worth hiding too far away...
In the future i need to do some more organization. I have a lot of **** in the garage that needs to be put somewhere else. The garage has a huge pitch, and they didn't build it with attic trusses, so maybe someday i will look at what i can do, I could gain a 16x8 room up there if i tried hard enough
But, time is limited and I would rather finish my current bike project:
1973 CB500/4 - Kinda Street Tracker
Web Cam, Bored to 605, and some other go fast goodies.
