blackhawk51
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I've been waiting for the day that I could actually make this post - long time lurker and we are finally done moving and I can make this garage MINE.
When my wife and I got married in 2014 we purchased our first home... a 3 bed 2 bath rambler with a 25x25 detached garage. We loved the place but ultimately knew that we would outgrow it within 3-5 years. It needed just enough updating that we'd be able to get some sweat equity in it by doing the work ourselves before we ultimately ended up selling it to move on. The garage was great... it already had a ton of storage and work benches built in so all I had to do was add my touch and it became mine.
3 years later, just as everything was finally finding its place in the garage we decided to take advantage of a hot sellers market in our neighborhood and list the house. Lo and behold, less than 24 hours on the market we had multiple offers and were under contract. Soon after, we found a great place on 3 acres of land in the middle of the woods that we absolutely loved and intended to stay in for the long term. The attached garage was smaller than the previous garage but there was plenty of room to build a detached at some point.
Within a year we were expecting our first child and everything was going great, still absolutely loving the house and starting to draw up my plans for the detached garage. After my son got old enough to interact with other kids we quickly realized that we were loading him and his things up every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to go spend time at friends houses so he could play with other kids. After 5-6 months of this, we decided that the best thing for our son was going to be in a neighborhood, where he wouldn't need to rely solely on our transportation to be able to play with his friends or have to ride a bike on a main road. It just to happens that one day when we were hanging out with friends that a house that we had always liked on the ideal street where all of our friends lived was rumored to be going on the market soon. We walked across the street and struck up a conversation with the owners, they walked us around the house, and we asked if they would consider an off market deal. They were good to go with it and so we had a path forward. As luck would have it, we mentioned that we were going to sell our house at a family gathering and my wifes aunt and uncle overheard us and said "we'll take it" on the spot... so now all of a sudden it became very real. 8-9 months later after going through all the necessary steps our old house was sold to family and we got the keys to the new house. With the new house came a 25X25 attached garage and a 30x40 detached garage.
I'll use this thread to document the things that I will be doing to the garage as well as any other projects that I do in the garage/around the house.
When my wife and I got married in 2014 we purchased our first home... a 3 bed 2 bath rambler with a 25x25 detached garage. We loved the place but ultimately knew that we would outgrow it within 3-5 years. It needed just enough updating that we'd be able to get some sweat equity in it by doing the work ourselves before we ultimately ended up selling it to move on. The garage was great... it already had a ton of storage and work benches built in so all I had to do was add my touch and it became mine.
3 years later, just as everything was finally finding its place in the garage we decided to take advantage of a hot sellers market in our neighborhood and list the house. Lo and behold, less than 24 hours on the market we had multiple offers and were under contract. Soon after, we found a great place on 3 acres of land in the middle of the woods that we absolutely loved and intended to stay in for the long term. The attached garage was smaller than the previous garage but there was plenty of room to build a detached at some point.
Within a year we were expecting our first child and everything was going great, still absolutely loving the house and starting to draw up my plans for the detached garage. After my son got old enough to interact with other kids we quickly realized that we were loading him and his things up every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to go spend time at friends houses so he could play with other kids. After 5-6 months of this, we decided that the best thing for our son was going to be in a neighborhood, where he wouldn't need to rely solely on our transportation to be able to play with his friends or have to ride a bike on a main road. It just to happens that one day when we were hanging out with friends that a house that we had always liked on the ideal street where all of our friends lived was rumored to be going on the market soon. We walked across the street and struck up a conversation with the owners, they walked us around the house, and we asked if they would consider an off market deal. They were good to go with it and so we had a path forward. As luck would have it, we mentioned that we were going to sell our house at a family gathering and my wifes aunt and uncle overheard us and said "we'll take it" on the spot... so now all of a sudden it became very real. 8-9 months later after going through all the necessary steps our old house was sold to family and we got the keys to the new house. With the new house came a 25X25 attached garage and a 30x40 detached garage.
I'll use this thread to document the things that I will be doing to the garage as well as any other projects that I do in the garage/around the house.
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