toxcrusadr
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FYI, we were calling this the Garage Mahal before it was cool. 
Since I seem to have hit 10k posts, and 9000+ of them are complete nonsense, I thought I'd post something more intelligent. I've spent a lot of time on this the last couple years, more than I have on audio.
We bought 16A of wooded property 15 minutes from our house back in 2009. I always wanted a place for my stuff, including a lot of lumber from trees downed for development during the 90s and 2000s real estate boom, that I was storing in my garage, friend's barn, etc. I wanted a shop big enough to plane all this stuff and maybe actually build something out of it, like wood flooring for the house. This place had a concrete slab from a former house that burned, driveway and utilities in, paved road, and a 'spare' 20x30 building (The Shack) originally built as an antique store that would be a dandy storage shed for all the used and recycled building materials we planned to use. And it had room for Tox's Boneyard of electronic crap.
So this is what it looks like now:
3200 sq ft with 12-ft ceilings. About 1/3 will be closed off with a recycled Wall of Doors and insulated, and we're putting in a wood stove and AC. So 1/3 wood shop and 2/3 storage/garage.
We did a lot of the work ourselves with help of an expert carpenter and all around construction genius who has been 'family repair guy' for some very good friends of ours for many years - and definitely a friend of ours now. He works by the hour (way too cheap) and we can work with him and do as much as we want ourselves.
Later I'll post more pics of the construction process and all the cool recycled features. A lot of our own labor plus salvaged and recycled stuff makes it a nice building for way less than you'd pay at retail. BTW, I got a lot of great advice on different aspects right here at AK. :thmbsp:
Since I seem to have hit 10k posts, and 9000+ of them are complete nonsense, I thought I'd post something more intelligent. I've spent a lot of time on this the last couple years, more than I have on audio.
We bought 16A of wooded property 15 minutes from our house back in 2009. I always wanted a place for my stuff, including a lot of lumber from trees downed for development during the 90s and 2000s real estate boom, that I was storing in my garage, friend's barn, etc. I wanted a shop big enough to plane all this stuff and maybe actually build something out of it, like wood flooring for the house. This place had a concrete slab from a former house that burned, driveway and utilities in, paved road, and a 'spare' 20x30 building (The Shack) originally built as an antique store that would be a dandy storage shed for all the used and recycled building materials we planned to use. And it had room for Tox's Boneyard of electronic crap.
So this is what it looks like now:
3200 sq ft with 12-ft ceilings. About 1/3 will be closed off with a recycled Wall of Doors and insulated, and we're putting in a wood stove and AC. So 1/3 wood shop and 2/3 storage/garage.
We did a lot of the work ourselves with help of an expert carpenter and all around construction genius who has been 'family repair guy' for some very good friends of ours for many years - and definitely a friend of ours now. He works by the hour (way too cheap) and we can work with him and do as much as we want ourselves.
Later I'll post more pics of the construction process and all the cool recycled features. A lot of our own labor plus salvaged and recycled stuff makes it a nice building for way less than you'd pay at retail. BTW, I got a lot of great advice on different aspects right here at AK. :thmbsp:
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Just kidding, of course, I "wish" I had a cool place like that. :thmbsp: Congrats on 10k too, ya PW! 
