Possible 16x20 Garage

[Mobsquad]

Hello everyone, Im looking to buy my first home and it comes with a 16x20 garage with 8x8 garage door. Im realy concerned that I wont have the space I need. I enjoy working on my Subaru WRX (which is not a large vehicle) but I am a bit of a bike fanatic as well. I have a 1975 Honda cb125 as well as a 1975 cb360 cafe build im working on. I keep my girlfriends scooter in the garage as well and my dirtbike after the races but im always looking to expand the collection. I think all this will be a tight squeeze once I get a work bench and tool box compressor exct. Dose anyone have any recommendations or experience with a garage this size and similar hobbies? Iv rigorously searched the forums and only found a few threads with 16x20 (or similar) layouts where pictures were not expired. Looking for photos or input to set me at ease.
Thanks a lot
-Aj

 

[Hesketh]

My garage is 19 x 19 so only just over 10% bigger than the one you are looking at. you will see from the link below that it has quite a large set of steps in the middle on one side this does eat into a fair bit of floor space (I would say about 3ft wide).

I can get a Mk2 Jag (not big next to modern stuff) and a Morris Minor (very small, but big for a bike) in there and still have JUST about enough space to work on them.

As a result AND if you keep the place free of the extra clutter you should be all ok. I keep the garden stuff out in the shed and the rest of the clutter stuff in the loft above the garage.

 

[zkling]

Simply put, that is too small a space for what you want to do.

 

[matt_i]

Figure out how to build a lean-to shed off the back, or better yet, both sides. Then you have got the room that you need for the workshop area.

Every farmer I know who built a barn (etc) already had planned in his head the lean-to sheds that would be built in forthcoming years.