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KiaTia

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Guys I love all of the great looking garages with painted floors and no clutter but here is my question where are all of the man tools?

Lawn Mowers
Shovels
Compressors
Power Washers
Generators
String Trimmers
Blowers

I could go on for ever if your garage is this clean where is all of this type of stuff?
 
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Arcticf7ext

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I kept it all in the basement, but the wife really did not like the lawn mower and wheel barrow carried through the kitchen.

My neighbors often questioned why I washed my lawn mower so much....

We now have a shed........
 

Old Moparz

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I try to keep anything that can fall or tip over onto paint or a tail light out of the garage entirely, like shovels, rakes, & other garden tools. That stuff stays in the shed with the wheel barrow & patio umbrella. The lawn mower, snow blower, generator, & the compressor, are all in the garage in a safe place, including the weed whacker that hangs on the wall in a corner. By next year I'm hoping to build a carport style structure at one end of the garage to park a travel trailer under. I also want to include an enclosed storage area between the garage & the carport to get all the stuff that isn't car related into & get some floor space back.
 

bhays

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In the shed...
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Christmas decorations in one end (I am a little over the top with the Christmas display ;)
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Welding area and compressor and sandblast cabinet in the other end:
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PurdueSD

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Guys I love all of the great looking garages with painted floors and no clutter but here is my question where are all of the man tools?

Lawn Mowers
Shovels
Compressors
Power Washers
Generators
String Trimmers
Blowers

I could go on for ever if your garage is this clean where is all of this type of stuff?

I have the exact same problem, to much of this **** cluttering up my garage. I've been looking for shed/ lean too type ideas. The wife doesnt understand why i need another building though...:lol_hitti
 

TheShrine

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No lawn equipment in the garage except when it is being worked on. Most of the simple mechanical/oil change stuff is done in this area.

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e-tek

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Guys I love all of the great looking garages with painted floors and no clutter but here is my question where are all of the man tools?

Lawn Mowers
Shovels
Compressors
Power Washers
Generators
String Trimmers
Blowers

I could go on for ever if your garage is this clean where is all of this type of stuff?

And now you know how Garage guys think. Welcome aboard!
 

Sammy7

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I live in a development where all of the landscaping is included in the HOA dues. My mower's been in a storage locker for the past two years. It's amazing how much the garage stays cleaner without all of that stuff.
 

E46M3

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KiaTia,
All that stuff is there, it's just hidden.

Here's the clean part:
(The air compressor is behind the wall accessed through the center doors)

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The wings:
The other stuff is stored in hidden "wings," not visible from the front, but connected to the main garage, and segmented by type; mowers and weed wackers in the back left garage,and bikes and toys in the side garage. This was a function of the design from the start, as it was my observation my previous garage collected several distinct types of "****" that had nothing to do my cars.

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Garden Stuff:

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Toy and bike stuff:

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The main garage now has 4 bays, but those bays are for the cars only. (There is not a single thing on the floor in any bay that was not designed to be there.)
Everything else, goes someplace else, because I built a someplace else for it all to go. I care less about the "look" of the garden tractor's home.

Cheers,
E46M3
 

Jack Olsen

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None of that stuff belongs in a garage.

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Any pics of the build up?

Not many. It was an impulse-driven project. I got a $500 gift car for Home Depot one morning, and sketched out a two-roof shed on some graph paper at breakfast. The larger roof arc corresponds to a small dessert plate that was on the table; the smaller-arc roofline corresponds to a juice glass -- expanded up from 1/4" per foot graph paper. I had to make it in two sections like that so the electric meter would still be accessible to the guy who reads it.

The shed is about 4 1/2 feet deep, 6 feet tall at its highest point, and about 20 feet long. Each of the four sections is walled off and has its own shelving. There's a single wood floor running the entire length of it, but the wood itself never touches the concrete. I used (stainless steel) spacers to hold it up about 3/8" above the driveway, which I figured would make it last longer.

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The overhang section shows a trash can under it in the picture, but it's there as a place for bicycles or big wheels or whatever my new son might be inclined to try to park in my garage.

I've got no idea what that grooved plywood was designed for, but it made building something like this a lot simpler, without the end result looking like what it is -- a plywood box.

Since it's bolted into the house studs, I got away with 24" on center frame pieces. For the curved roof, the studs are 2x3 and they're spaced every 12". To reproduce the curve, I set the wood down on its side and scribed a line with a string that matched the radius of the curves in the plan -- then I cut both the front and the back to match with a jigsaw. I used OSB for the interior. I was able to use the same OSB for the surface of the bigger-arc roof -- but I had to get thinner stuff (and double it up) for the tighter-arc one.
 
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GN4WHLN

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Most of that stuff is a PIA to store, inevitably tracks grass in, and is in my way - in the shed it goes.

Jack Olsen, that has got to be the coolest shed I have ever seen. I love the architectural detail. :thumbup:
 

PurdueSD

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Any pics of with doors open and after its been loaded up!

I always admired it since you first posted a while back...
 

Jack Olsen

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Jack Olsen, that has got to be the coolest shed I have ever seen. I love the architectural detail. :thumbup:
I appreciate the compliment, especially since it's the first outdoor lumber construction I'd done since I was 12.

Come to think of it, the backyard half pipe I built way back then used the same idea -- it was a 10' string used to make the curve for the side pieces, which then got 12"-center 2x4 supports before the layers of plywood went on.

I don't have any pictures of the inside of the shed. It hasn't gotten painted (yet). Two of the sections are divided by three big shelves, one has two shelves, and then the tall section on the end has no shelves, just the floor -- it's where upright stuff goes, including oxy-ac tanks and my other welding equipment.
 

chet

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when we moved into our house 3 years ago there was no garden shed only the 20x40 shop. I soon built a 10x14 shed for the garden stuff. a ride em take up alot of room. Plus I keep all my flammables out there just in case. The only thing flammable in my shop is motor oil and the parts washer fluid.
 
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