70 supersport
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I'm going to start on my 80 x 100 with a 2000 square foot house and I'm just trying to get some ideas and pics,any would be helpful
thank you
thank you
Shops with living quarters
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My brothers 80/100 with a 3bdr framed into one end. This is the oustide....the house is to the back of this pic. It opens to the "patio that you see to the right:
Another view:
The patio with traditional doors into the "house" portion:
This is taken inside the shop, looking at the "exterior" of the framed out "house". He has stairs on one side going up to fully planked storage on the top of the living quarters....huge amount of storage. He's decked this area out for entertaining and it opens right into the balance of the building that is his shop.
Another shot of the shop area:
Another view:
The patio with traditional doors into the "house" portion:
This is taken inside the shop, looking at the "exterior" of the framed out "house". He has stairs on one side going up to fully planked storage on the top of the living quarters....huge amount of storage. He's decked this area out for entertaining and it opens right into the balance of the building that is his shop.
Another shot of the shop area:
irregardless
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I wish I could have talked the wife into this... lol
Place looks great, drmarkr.
Place looks great, drmarkr.
AirJunky
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Yup, agreed. Looks like a fun place to live.
Considering the arguments against this sort of home in other threads, it would be interesting to hear if a bank financed it or what kind of zoning hurdles the builder went through.
-Bill
Considering the arguments against this sort of home in other threads, it would be interesting to hear if a bank financed it or what kind of zoning hurdles the builder went through.
-Bill
Kevin54
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I'm going to start on my 80 x 100 with a 2000 square foot house and I'm just trying to get some ideas and pics,any would be helpful
I don't know about helping you out other than telling you to do a search for something like......"Pole barn and shop living quarters". But what I do know is that YOU ****!!!!!!!!
Man I wish I was in your position
If you're asking me about the pics? No financing. Had the building erected and then built out the "home" himself. This is rural Oklahoma.....zoning? What zoning??
BTW, he keeps the AC in the house on 68 all summer, and his electric bill is some stupidly small amount. The walls of the "home" are insulated, and set 6" off the purloins/girts of the walls of the exterior. Fantastic R value. Pisses me off every time I get an electric bill for my house here in Arizona.....
AirJunky
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Hehe, thanks drmarkr.
-Bill
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70 supersport
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Thank you drmarkr that place is awesome we are making ours two story for the house hopefully we don't get fumes from working on our cars. Also thank you mikegt4 would love to see some inside pictures of the layout for ideas,hopefully we use the same colors ,those were the original ones I picked
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^^^^^^^^This is awsome!!! I wonder if he'll get his money back when he wants to sell it down the road. I know I'm being negative bla bla bla.... Maybe this guy has a ton of money to piss away so he doesnt care... Im NOT in a position to piss money away.
Dan
^^^^^^^^This is awsome!!! I wonder if he'll get his money back when he wants to sell it down the road. I know I'm being negative bla bla bla.... Maybe this guy has a ton of money to piss away so he doesnt care... Im NOT in a position to piss money away.
Dan
Looking at the background, I'm guessing the guy is a farmer, probably a young one that built on family ground. If that's the case, it'll probably never get sold even if they build a house on the property. It'll turn into a guesthouse/office or hang out for the kids.
Just a guess. . . .
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70 supersport
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Wow I was hoping for more than two places with live in quarters.Thank you for the ones who posted
AirJunky
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Have you seen these threads on the subject?
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192988
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=216525
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215791
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http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=192988
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=216525
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215791
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sberry
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I lived in mine longer than I should have, 12 yrs, maybe more. I miss the convenience. In a structure designed for this would really look careful at floor plans, the obvious isn't always so. Personally wouldn't build the house across an end but more along the side/corner. All utilities and real living space on the bottom, guest room/storage type stuff on second floor.
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Have you strolled through the Gallery section ?
Yes, it's on farm growing corn and/or beans like most around here. Most of the buildings would be for tractors, planting and harvesting equipment. As you can see it's well taken care of.
It's easy to see on Google maps (satellite). Google "Oxford Ohio", click on "maps" and choose "satellite" image. Follow Brookville Rd. southwest out of Oxford across the Ohio/Indiana state line where the name changes to Oxford Pike and it turns to the south. Follow Oxford Pike past Lee Road to where it makes a 90* right turn to the west and the farm is on the south side of the road. All this can be seen on the original map of 'Oxford Ohio" in the bottom left corner by the mile/kilometer scale. Once you find it just zoom in for a closer look.
If I was more computer savvy I'd just post a link.
lynnbilodeau
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Is your brother's first name Dennis? If so, I have been in that building. It was a few years ago before he built the house. He told me about his plans to do so.
BTW, if this is the same guy, hats off to him. He erected that 80x100 building without a crew, using a tractor and gin pole. Because it was prefab, he only had something like a 1/8 inch tolerance on some of the holes lining up, and nailed all of them.
Just think about how much money you've saved living there!
Most people i know spend 1500 + bucks a month on rent or mortgage. 12 years???? That's like over 200,000KDustyMojave
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An old friend of mine is a machinist. He had a 2,000 square foot shop in Burbank, California. He lived about 5 miles away in an apartment. California's taxes and other business costs were killing him financially. So he bought land next to the airport in Carson City Nevada, built a new 2-story building on it with the machine shop downstairs and the living quarters upstairs. The new shop is 3x the square footage of the old one. The apartment was 500 square feet and the new home is huge! The mortgage for the whole deal was about 1/3 the cost of leasing the former machine shop in Burbank and now no apartment to rent and no cost to commute. Cost to ship out his product was exactly the same as before. And Nevada has no income tax and vastly friendlier to businesses. In most of, if not all of California, our government doesn't want manufacturing and residences anywhere near each other, especially not on the same property and even more so NOT in the same building. It USED to be common. But now people are too snooty to love near where people work.
Sureshot
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I have been in a few and a few around here but no pics. I know of two with two levels with decks off the upper level. I keep telling the wife that is what we are doing with a hot tub on a slide or rotating floor so it can be indoors or out.
modernbeat
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I used to live in a 19k square foot burlap bag factory that was built in 1941. Had an apartment in one corner. Built out both a metal shop and woodworking shop eventually. Had a few indoor motorcycle races until I hit a pole with the bike and slid into my kitchen. Even had an indoor range until we started using blackpowder and couldn't deal with the smoke. Then switched to longbows.
Smack in the middle of Houston, Texas. Excuse the old-school stitch. It was done around 1999.
Smack in the middle of Houston, Texas. Excuse the old-school stitch. It was done around 1999.
AirJunky
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Had a few indoor motorcycle races until I hit a pole with the bike and slid into my kitchen.
Hehehe, that's awesome! So funny. Cool place.
Good thing it doesn't get cold there. Would be tough to heat.
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modernbeat
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Sold off all the hotrod parts and cars a while back after the mini-truck punks invaded. Bob's better, but still not up to snuff.
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70 supersport
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Modernbeat that place looks cool do you have any other pictures of it?
Chaz
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Not sure if this is a shop with a house, or a house with a shop, but it works for me!
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70 supersport
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Chaz that place is cool we need a shop tour,how do we find who's it is?
modernbeat
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Not really, and I was only there until 2001. But it's in the background of some other pics. It's really not anything to look at.
Front entrance
Front entrance looking out
The big speakers. I'm moving out and the bike warehouse is moving in.
That Chaz's place. I think he needs to put a link to it in his sig, an awesome place.
This is one of the threads for it.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=71863
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Pat Brady
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I sleep on my workbench. Does that count for anything? 
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70 supersport
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Gotta give the guy credit!
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70 supersport
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Thank you everyone for all the cool pictures and ideas
mustangsean
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I did a Mueller building, 40 x 60, with a 2 story apartment down one side (still in progress) The living, bath, small kitchen and 1 bdrm are down stairs, upstairs is 2 more rooms with a mezzanine to be open to the shop area. This pic is before the 2nd floor was framed out, a few weeks ago
AirJunky
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That's cool Sean. So your shop space is going to be like 60' long by 20' or 25' wide?
I'd love to see/hear more about your plans.
-Bill
I'd love to see/hear more about your plans.
-Bill
mustangsean
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I started a thread, but have to get more pics this weekend,
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=217583
Yeah the shop area is roughly 26 x 60 on the right, and on the front left corner an area 12 x 14 open as well. I did this in sketchup today to get a better idea of the final layout / finish
I started a thread, but have to get more pics this weekend,
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=217583
Yeah the shop area is roughly 26 x 60 on the right, and on the front left corner an area 12 x 14 open as well. I did this in sketchup today to get a better idea of the final layout / finish
That's awesome!
HOTFR8
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70 supersport
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Thanks hotfr8 do you have any more pictures?
HOTFR8
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Posted some recently in the Garage Crawl topic.
Link > http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9299&showall=1