hakatan
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Here's my two car garage. Nothing special. Just a (below)average small New England 2 car detached, about 19'x20' No heat, paint or finished walls. One 15 amp circuit. It's a bit of a jigsaw puzzle really...but at least I know where everything is.
Looking back, I sure wish I had fixed up the garage with paint, insulation, plywood walls, etc. before we moved in in 2010....but I hadn't yet drunk the GarageJournal kool-aid back then
Really, I was hoping to use these photos as the 'before' shots...but just found out this week we might be moving to Philadelphia for work, so I figured I might as well post 'em up.
The main purpose of the garage is to serve as a winter storage spot for two cars, some of our many bicycles, a motorcycle (and a scooter I added this spring) and whatever else ends up out there. As you can imagine, it quickly deteriorated into a big mess:
This fall I started organizing better, installed additional peg board for my hand tools, bought a rolling metal cabinet off CraigsList to hold my power tools and starting finding a place for everything. Most of the bikes got hung up in a basement store room that will become a 'bike maintenance space', but four are still hanging in the garage.
This freed up some much needed work space:
and the evolving idea is that one car will live outside during the warmer months so I can use half the garage for projects/maintenance/whatever.
I built a workbench from a left over counter top and some 4x4s. Trying to maximize space, and taking inspiration from Jack's 12 gauge garage, I mounted the worktop to the wall with hinges and also hinged the 4x4 legs so the legs can tuck out of the way and the table can drop against the wall when not in use. It's not flat, since the foundation wall has a step, but it gets me some additional width.
I figured it would also force me to keep the top clean.
As it turns out, I'm able to squeeze my trucklet in without dropping the table:
so there goes my incentive to keep the workbench top clean
The approach of Hurricane Sandy this week encouraged me to see how I could squeeze two cars, the motorcycle, and the scooter inside before the snow starts really starts flying this winter.
Motorcycle and scooter tucked in the back:
Trucklet and scooter ready to go:
All vehicles tucked in for the storm:
Hoping I can use this as a dry run for our next place....and already have a list of criteria as we shop for a house in Philly's western 'burbs.
Looking back, I sure wish I had fixed up the garage with paint, insulation, plywood walls, etc. before we moved in in 2010....but I hadn't yet drunk the GarageJournal kool-aid back then
Really, I was hoping to use these photos as the 'before' shots...but just found out this week we might be moving to Philadelphia for work, so I figured I might as well post 'em up. The main purpose of the garage is to serve as a winter storage spot for two cars, some of our many bicycles, a motorcycle (and a scooter I added this spring) and whatever else ends up out there. As you can imagine, it quickly deteriorated into a big mess:
This fall I started organizing better, installed additional peg board for my hand tools, bought a rolling metal cabinet off CraigsList to hold my power tools and starting finding a place for everything. Most of the bikes got hung up in a basement store room that will become a 'bike maintenance space', but four are still hanging in the garage.
This freed up some much needed work space:
and the evolving idea is that one car will live outside during the warmer months so I can use half the garage for projects/maintenance/whatever.
I built a workbench from a left over counter top and some 4x4s. Trying to maximize space, and taking inspiration from Jack's 12 gauge garage, I mounted the worktop to the wall with hinges and also hinged the 4x4 legs so the legs can tuck out of the way and the table can drop against the wall when not in use. It's not flat, since the foundation wall has a step, but it gets me some additional width.
I figured it would also force me to keep the top clean.
As it turns out, I'm able to squeeze my trucklet in without dropping the table:
so there goes my incentive to keep the workbench top clean
The approach of Hurricane Sandy this week encouraged me to see how I could squeeze two cars, the motorcycle, and the scooter inside before the snow starts really starts flying this winter.
Motorcycle and scooter tucked in the back:
Trucklet and scooter ready to go:
All vehicles tucked in for the storm:
Hoping I can use this as a dry run for our next place....and already have a list of criteria as we shop for a house in Philly's western 'burbs.