Shop/garage/shed?

[Hnthrdr]

I used to think this. Not sure I still don't...

But man, sometimes that 30 foot walk to the house when a project is being particularly frustrating is really nice. Shutting the door, locking up, and just walking away!

Instead you get a 8 ft walk from the shop bench back to your living room… yeah I still like the Barndo idea

 

[Dos Perros]

Finished room in the basement. I call it my man room. Still have stuff in other places though, like some hunting clothes in my main/everyday closet, and gear in the garage.

 

[displacedtexan]

Instead you get a 8 ft walk from the shop bench back to your living room… yeah I still like the Barndo idea

That's why I say I'm not sure I don't!

But I didn't get the same satisfaction walking into the house from the garage as I do the shop.

A few of my friends and I are also the sort of people who will spend hours and hours figuring out how to make parts that aren't supposed to fit together at all, work well together. Lol

Plus it keeps the welding/breaker clean/paint/burnout fumes out of the house.

 

[mi650]

I have a 32x36 garage, that currently has 1 car in it. I have my work benches in there, safes, TV, a few heaters,... it's where I do all of my tinkering.

When we sold our house downstate a few years ago, it was packed full. I couldn't even get my car in there. We used to park 3 vehicles in there: my truck, wifes Suburban, and my Vette.

A few months ago, I had enough crap gone to park in there again, then my wife filled it with her crap!

 

[loganwayne]

That's why I say I'm not sure I don't!

But I didn't get the same satisfaction walking into the house from the garage as I do the shop.

A few of my friends and I are also the sort of people who will spend hours and hours figuring out how to make parts that aren't supposed to fit together at all, work well together. Lol

Plus it keeps the welding/breaker clean/paint/burnout fumes out of the house.

there are ways to keep the fumes and stuff out of the house.
Double wall between the two sealed. mud room with door on each side to separate the house and shop.
i have a full set of plans that we are going to build if we move

 

[displacedtexan]

 

[displacedtexan]

there are ways to keep the fumes and stuff out of the house.
Double wall between the two sealed. mud room with door on each side to separate the house and shop.
i have a full set of plans that we are going to build if we move

Oh I know.

That's a pretty minor concern for me.

I love the idea. I just don't think it's perfect. No setup is.

 

[loganwayne]

Oh I know.

That's a pretty minor concern for me.

I love the idea. I just don't think it's perfect. No setup is.

I can't get my wife to buy in yet. That's my biggest problem lol

 

[displacedtexan]

I can't get my wife to buy in yet. That's my biggest problem lol

That can be quite the hurdle.

My wife sometimes likes the idea, then me and my friends are doing burnouts and blaring music in the shop at 2am...

 

[Silver Wings]

24x36 shop with 10’ ceiling and a fully sheeted, stand up attic space.
I wish I would have built it at least double the size, at the time it was cheap.

 

[dtrkyman]

Garage, too small and over loaded with so much crap and the wife's car it is useless as a work place!

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

30x50 shop, unfinished basement, and spare bedroom. Could use more room.

 

[Speaks]

I would build a nice heated shop immediately if there was room at my place. Its actually one of the reasons I want to move though I also want to be on some more acres.

Right now I use our 2 car garage, my wife does park in it but the rest of the space is mine. I also use a good chunk of our unfinished basement. Lots of storage for hunting and camping gear and a hand tool wood shop about the size of a single stall garage.

Assuming the next house I buy does not already have a sufficient shop the first order of business will be to put up one roughly the size of a 6 car garage (3 wide 2 deep). Maybe bigger to store the boat, tractor, and side by side or perhaps those in a separate building.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Garage with overhead storage and ladder access. Two outdoors sheds.

 

[Lt 1308]

Several years ago I built a 30 by 40 shop for outdoor stuff and to house 2 vehicles. I keep most of my stuff out there but I also have a closet upstairs full of stuff.

 

[Uncle Goonie]

Shop with loft up top and barn/tackroom off the back. Covered parking on both sides, boat and truck on one side and yard stuff/small toys on the other. Older but watertight. Could use a dump run to make some more room!

 

[Cousneddy]

I have a 30x50 insulated pole barn with 12 foot walls built a couple of years ago, finally got it mostly finished up. It has a 1/2 bath, which is great and keeps me from having to go back to the house. I also framed and finished a 10x20 room for reloading and home office. It has 2 10x10 doors on one end and a walk in door on the side facing the house.

I talked to a lot of friends with shops before I had mine built, everyone told me build as big as you can afford and put a bathroom in it!

 

[CorbLand]

I'm seriusly considering building a Barndominium, seems to be the best of both worlds.

If I was single with no plans to get married, I would build a 40x80 shop with a two bed, two bath apartment above the back half of it.

 

[oldskool67]

We built an addition to connect our back patio to our main house. It’s really a separate 1250 square ft house. Standard size two car garage (with AC) for my motorcycles and “shop.” The rest is split between a large walk-in closet for all my hunting / fishing / guns. and a furnished man cave with full bath. For the first time ever my wife can actually park her car in the main garage, instead of it full of all my crap