Stretch-22
Well-known member
Hey everyone! Very happy to be here and to have read through many of the build threads that others have put together. I love seeing the creativity and hard work put into all the fantastic garages around the world. Thank you for sharing!
A little background on my build. My wife and I relocated from KY to PA in 2012. After touring many houses for sale, I couldn't find a garage I liked that would fit the cars and stuff we had. Since we would be facing cold weather I really wanted to be able to park my daily driver inside during the winter. I already had a 4 post lift but needed ceiling height to utilize it. So after much debate, I convinced my wife that we should build a house to get the garage I wanted.
So we picked out a 2 story 1800 sq ft house and I made plans to add a third bay to the garage along with some other custom touches.
This was my wish list:
- 11 foot ceilings (wanted 12, but can live with the 11)
- High rise doors with the front mounted openers
- Extra outlets including a 220V
- Extra lights
- 6" concrete in the third bay for the lift
I also wanted to add more square footage to the garage, just wasn't sure if width or depth would be more useful. The main driving factor was the lift and how big it would look in the garage. So I installed google sketchup and drew the garage and lift in 3D to get an idea of how it would look inside. I'm very glad that I did because it allowed me to see that more depth was the way to go. Since my garage would have the 2 foot step back for the third bay, that also created a 2 foot step back on the back wall. That put the front left post of the lift about a foot from that corner. That made the decision easy, push that back wall farther back another 2 feet. This would also give me more space for cabinets on the back wall. The overall size of the garage is 22 feet deep by 32 feet wide.
Here is the updated sketch with the back wall pushed back. I added in some cabinets and the sink to get an idea of how it would look.
Skipping ahead to the build. Here is the garage from the front.
Inside with the door and tracks installed.
My father in law came over one weekend to help me get some insulation on the exterior walls. Very glad I did this.
Here is the floor drain in the middle of the 2 car part of the garage.
Drywall is up.
Garage door openers installed.
Concrete poured. The 2 car bay is 4 inches thick. The third bay on the right is 6 inches thick and they also did that section 100% level for the lift.
I couldn't resist checking how the car looked in the new garage. This is also where the name came from. This is the Redline edition of the Saturn Ion. The walls will be painted to match the logo, grey background with a solid red stripe.
And the lift getting reassembled after move in day. It's a Backyard Buddy.
I've gotten some work done to the garage over the winter but it got cold very quickly and that really slowed things down. Spring is coming up soon so I'll be back out there to finish it.
Since moving in I've purchased several of the Kobalt cabinets from Lowes and a Craftsman tool cabinet. I've also hung some of the gear track panels that I accumulated at the last garage. I need to get pictures of those.
Anywho, thanks for looking and for providing so many great threads to look through on this site. They have been a very bad influence on me for sure
A little background on my build. My wife and I relocated from KY to PA in 2012. After touring many houses for sale, I couldn't find a garage I liked that would fit the cars and stuff we had. Since we would be facing cold weather I really wanted to be able to park my daily driver inside during the winter. I already had a 4 post lift but needed ceiling height to utilize it. So after much debate, I convinced my wife that we should build a house to get the garage I wanted.
So we picked out a 2 story 1800 sq ft house and I made plans to add a third bay to the garage along with some other custom touches.
This was my wish list:
- 11 foot ceilings (wanted 12, but can live with the 11)
- High rise doors with the front mounted openers
- Extra outlets including a 220V
- Extra lights
- 6" concrete in the third bay for the lift
I also wanted to add more square footage to the garage, just wasn't sure if width or depth would be more useful. The main driving factor was the lift and how big it would look in the garage. So I installed google sketchup and drew the garage and lift in 3D to get an idea of how it would look inside. I'm very glad that I did because it allowed me to see that more depth was the way to go. Since my garage would have the 2 foot step back for the third bay, that also created a 2 foot step back on the back wall. That put the front left post of the lift about a foot from that corner. That made the decision easy, push that back wall farther back another 2 feet. This would also give me more space for cabinets on the back wall. The overall size of the garage is 22 feet deep by 32 feet wide.
Here is the updated sketch with the back wall pushed back. I added in some cabinets and the sink to get an idea of how it would look.
Skipping ahead to the build. Here is the garage from the front.
Inside with the door and tracks installed.
My father in law came over one weekend to help me get some insulation on the exterior walls. Very glad I did this.
Here is the floor drain in the middle of the 2 car part of the garage.
Drywall is up.
Garage door openers installed.
Concrete poured. The 2 car bay is 4 inches thick. The third bay on the right is 6 inches thick and they also did that section 100% level for the lift.
I couldn't resist checking how the car looked in the new garage. This is also where the name came from. This is the Redline edition of the Saturn Ion. The walls will be painted to match the logo, grey background with a solid red stripe.
And the lift getting reassembled after move in day. It's a Backyard Buddy.
I've gotten some work done to the garage over the winter but it got cold very quickly and that really slowed things down. Spring is coming up soon so I'll be back out there to finish it.
Since moving in I've purchased several of the Kobalt cabinets from Lowes and a Craftsman tool cabinet. I've also hung some of the gear track panels that I accumulated at the last garage. I need to get pictures of those.
Anywho, thanks for looking and for providing so many great threads to look through on this site. They have been a very bad influence on me for sure
