I also bought a garage!! Pics inside

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swhtech

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Here are some pictures of my new garage that I bought, which happens to also have a house attached ;)

The house is a split entry, 2150sq ft, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath on .7 acre. The garage is under the bedrooms, so the ceiling is pretty low. I don't know the dimensions of the garage....the foundation is 26 x 50 ( I think). Anyways, here are some pics....all the crap that is there is the current owners......
 
next pic.....these pictures go in order from the right side of the garage to the left side. This pic shows the entry to the house and that bumped out partition has the oil tank behind it. The door to the house needs to be replaced....it's just a solid wood door with the metal on the garage side....it will be replaced with probably a metal insulated door. Also, to the right of the door, we may put our extra refrigerator there. We need the freezer space, and I can keep beer and soda for when I'm detailing :)
 
next pic....you can't really see it very well in the picture, but there is a nice workbench in the corner...I'm hoping that they don't take it with them.
 
WELL ALRIGHT!!!! I can hear the gears turning now about how to make this your haven.. Great garage.. and er, house...

Congrats



Dana:xyxthumbs
 
last pic....the two windows are in pretty good shape....I may cover them with the plastic to keep drafts out.....there are quite a few small breaks in the plaster on the walls and ceilings where pipes and drains are, etc....I need to get those repaired or fill them with some foam, etc. We are planning on replacing the garage doors, and possibly the openers. The current openers are Stanley 1/4HP chain drive.....it looks like they just changed the opener becuase the pole that runs to the door is all rusted.

Actually they are pretty quiet, but may be underpowered for a heavier insulated door. Any recommendations on brands of garage doors? Also, you can see that the opener is very close to the ceiling....any opinoins on lights? You can see that there are two light fixtures....one in each bay.....I'd like to add some more light, but it doesn't have to be crazy.....I don't do that much work in the garage.
 
For lights I would go with some fluorescent fixtures, you can hang a couple of those 48" shop lights over each bay if you don't think you'll be doing most of your detailing/etc. in the garage, or if you're like me you could have 6-8 of those shop lights over your bays.



For garage doors, look at Overhead Door... I have their insulated door and opener combo and love it, keeps everything pretty well protected.
 
Hard to tell in the pics how big it is, is it just a 2 car? Does it have heat or AC? also do you have any pics from the outside>?
 
It's just a 2 car garage.....I don't have the exact dimensions.....

I didn't take pics from the outside cause it was in the middle of a snow storm! I'll see if I can dig up a picture that shows the garage from the outside.
 
That's not too shabby. Sure beats the heck out of my little one car garage duplex. :xyxthumbs Great find. Clear all their crap outta there and get to work on it. That is going to be one awesome place. You've got a lot of potential in there.
 
Thanks for all the compliments guys! Unfortunately there are other big things in the house to work on first, then the garage will get worked on, if there's any $$$$ left over!!
 
Nice garage and house!! Our garage is under the kitchen so our ceiling is also low...enough for my friend's '95 Explorer with 3" lift and a safari rack to fit in. Ours can park three cars and a little area where you can park your lawn tractor and the lawn mower. I'll take a pic when I go home in three weeks. Here's a pic of our house:



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Here's a pic showing the deepest part of the garage:



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We park two cars there since we have 4 cars. One stays outside.



Here's a pic of my friend's '95 Explorer:



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Wow, I've never seen a dropped ceiling in a garage before....interesting. My current garage in my condo is a similar setup.....a 2 car tandem garage....kind of a pain in the *** since sometimes you have to move one car to get the other out.
 
The dropped ceiling is my dad's creation. He hated the looks of wood studs outlining the garage so he bought the ceiling tiles, the rails, and the drywalls to upfit it. The ceiling tiles covered the garage door opener so he wired a set of flouresent lights to it so when you open or close the door, the flouresent lights will turn on.



About the 2 car tandem garage, it is a PITA, but once you're used to it, it's not a big deal at all. We've been doing that for many years so it doesn't bother us at all. Like I said, I'll get some pics of the other part of our garage when I get home in a couple of weekends.
 
Sorry it took so long. I finally had some time to take some pics of the garage when taking pics of my car so here's our garage.



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The two-car space.



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The spaces in the middle is for our lawn mower/tractor, and other junk.



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The other space. My dad's '98 Accord, all detailed parks there.



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A pic of our house. As you can see, our garage/finished basement is well...in the basement.
 
Very nice garage....and house! You have a lot of storage in that garage....that middle space for the lawn mower, etc, is great!
 
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