Dream Home and/or Garage
rambos_ride
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My home search has prompted me to pose a new hypothetical question...If you had unlimited monies what would the basic outlay of your dream Home/Garage be?
Mine is this...
100+ Acres and smack dab in the middle is a 5500 sq ft 5 bedroom 4 bath Rambler with an attached 4 car garage for the "everyday toys" then a 5000 sq ft fully outfitted machine shop and another 5000 sq ft shop w/spray booth and a 500-1000 sq ft shop to do nasty stuff like sand blasting.
Of course it should also have all the requisite ammenities all of my cash affords me... pool, jacquzzi, sauna, maids :eek: :rolleyes:
Oh yeah - and I want one of these propeties where it's warm and one where it's colder to fight the seasons heat!
Mine is this...
100+ Acres and smack dab in the middle is a 5500 sq ft 5 bedroom 4 bath Rambler with an attached 4 car garage for the "everyday toys" then a 5000 sq ft fully outfitted machine shop and another 5000 sq ft shop w/spray booth and a 500-1000 sq ft shop to do nasty stuff like sand blasting.
Of course it should also have all the requisite ammenities all of my cash affords me... pool, jacquzzi, sauna, maids :eek: :rolleyes:
Oh yeah - and I want one of these propeties where it's warm and one where it's colder to fight the seasons heat!
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rambos_ride wrote:My home search has prompted me to pose a new hypothetical question...If you had unlimited monies what would the basic outlay of your dream Home/Garage be?
Mine is this...
100+ Acres and smack dab in the middle is a 5500 sq ft 5 bedroom 4 bath Rambler with an attached 4 car garage for the "everyday toys" then a 5000 sq ft fully outfitted machine shop and another 5000 sq ft shop w/spray booth and a 500-1000 sq ft shop to do nasty stuff like sand blasting.
Of course it should also have all the requisite ammenities all of my cash affords me... pool, jacquzzi, sauna, maids :eek: :rolleyes:
Oh yeah - and I want one of these propeties where it's warm and one where it's colder to fight the seasons heat!
....in little French maid outfits! Sounds good to me, except having to take care of the 100 acres. I'm not a farmer, though I guess I could lease it out to one.
A friend of mine who used to live down the street built a darn near ultimate garage right here in the city. Half acre lot w/ 4bdr, 3 bath house, built-in swimming pool, etc. But the kicker was he built a garage with studio apartment, machine shop and storage unit, all built together. The garage had a chain hoist hanging off to intersecting steel beams which could pickup something (up to 6 tons) and do a full circle around the garage area! A hydraulic hoist was also added. The garage area could hold 8 F350 Dualies in it.
It was a cool set up but he sold it and moved to a $2.5 mil house in Paradise Valley. Got rich and now doesn't work on trucks anymore. Go figure!
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jsrail wrote:....in little French maid outfits! Sounds good to me, except having to take care of the 100 acres. I'm not a farmer, though I guess I could lease it out to one.
A friend of mine who used to live down the street built a darn near ultimate garage right here in the city. Half acre lot w/ 4bdr, 3 bath house, built-in swimming pool, etc. But the kicker was he built a garage with studio apartment, machine shop and storage unit, all built together. The garage had a chain hoist hanging off to intersecting steel beams which could pickup something (up to 6 tons) and do a full circle around the garage area! A hydraulic hoist was also added. The garage area could hold 8 F350 Dualies in it.
It was a cool set up but he sold it and moved to a $2.5 mil house in Paradise Valley. Got rich and now doesn't work on trucks anymore. Go figure!
Jay
If you do any kind of painting or welding having your living quarters attached to the shop is a bad thing! Sometimes it also nice to get away from the shop - like when a particular bolt just won't go in!
The chain hoist gantry system is a must in the dream shop!0 -
rambos_ride wrote:If you do any kind of painting or welding having your living quarters attached to the shop is a bad thing! Sometimes it also nice to get away from the shop - like when a particular bolt just won't go in!
The chain hoist gantry system is a must in the dream shop!
The studio is the Mother-in-Law Suite. It has the spray booth exhaust piped into it!0 -
We Built The Place We Are In 10 Years Ago I Had Planned On Having The Garage Of My Dreams And Thought I Built It Plenty Big 40x56 Is The Down Stairs Garage ( Shop) And A 40x40 Parking Agrage For Our New Stuff My Wifes Suburban And My Pick Up And The Cars That Are Done (baby) And The Black 57
Well I Want To Tell You Bild It Bigger Than You Think You Will Need Yes I Can Fit 6 Cars Down Stairs But When Working On A Car Doing A Ground Up You Need 3 Bays Just For It + Places For Work Benchs, Engine Lifts, Engine Stans,welders, Torches, Spair Engines,drill Press,shelving For Parts Storage. And Make Sure It Tall For A Lift With Plenty Of Head Room Now About The House We Took A 19 X 30 House And Made It 30 X 75 It All Sits On 1 Acre And Thats All I Want To Take Care Of Its The Last House On The Street And The Neighbor On The Side We Have One Is 100 Foot Away So We Are Off By Ourselves But Right In Town We Like It But I Should Have Went Bigger On The Garage Space But I'll Make Due I'm Not Going To Build Again0 -
PAULARGETYPE wrote:We Built The Place We Are In 10 Years Ago I Had Planned On Having The Garage Of My Dreams And Thought I Built It Plenty Big 40x56 Is The Down Stairs Garage ( Shop) And A 40x40 Parking Agrage For Our New Stuff My Wifes Suburban And My Pick Up And The Cars That Are Done (baby) And The Black 57
Well I Want To Tell You Bild It Bigger Than You Think You Will Need Yes I Can Fit 6 Cars Down Stairs But When Working On A Car Doing A Ground Up You Need 3 Bays Just For It + Places For Work Benchs, Engine Lifts, Engine Stans,welders, Torches, Spair Engines,drill Press,shelving For Parts Storage. And Make Sure It Tall For A Lift With Plenty Of Head Room Now About The House We Took A 19 X 30 House And Made It 30 X 75 It All Sits On 1 Acre And Thats All I Want To Take Care Of Its The Last House On The Street And The Neighbor On The Side We Have One Is 100 Foot Away So We Are Off By Ourselves But Right In Town We Like It But I Should Have Went Bigger On The Garage Space But I'll Make Due I'm Not Going To Build Again
Great Advice my dreams have now changed and are much larger!0 -
A couple of months ago I had to get a new roof...probably worth more than my car. Since it was shake, it had to be stripped and sheathed in plywood. So...I moved my Hudson to a friend's house to protect it. Then...my son graduated from college, brought home all his furniture, etc. then split for Africa for 2 years. My wife had some garage sale/charity stuff to store for "a day or two." You couldn't have filled that space faster with a D9 Cat...it looked like a thrift store exploded. My Hudson is still on vacation. But...I was thinking this morning that since I've got this expensive composition roof and the fire danger is less, I could haul all the remaning flotsam & jestsam out in the driveway, cover it with kerosene, and flick the ol' Bic...:mad:0
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SamJ wrote:A couple of months ago I had to get a new roof...probably worth more than my car. Since it was shake, it had to be stripped and sheathed in plywood. So...I moved my Hudson to a friend's house to protect it. Then...my son graduated from college, brought home all his furniture, etc. then split for Africa for 2 years. My wife had some garage sale/charity stuff to store for "a day or two." You couldn't have filled that space faster with a D9 Cat...it looked like a thrift store exploded. My Hudson is still on vacation. But...I was thinking this morning that since I've got this expensive composition roof and the fire danger is less, I could haul all the remaning flotsam & jestsam out in the driveway, cover it with kerosene, and flick the ol' Bic...:mad:
50 years ago you could have done that and be out enjoying roasting mashmallows over the embers!
Today - you'd be arrested as an arsonist, polluting the evironment, and a failure to get a 200.00 permit for burning - then sent to prison without trial :mad: :rolleyes:0 -
I built my "dream" shop about 8 years ago. It is a 4 car shop with 12ft+ ceilings and a full stand up loft for storage above. It has electric, air lift etc. At the time I had one antique car.
A year later it was full so I added a shed on the side to hold 2 more cars. That filled up so I bought a farm with 2 barns; one is full and the other is filling!
If I had to do it again I would:
1. Build a 2 car dedicated shop with all amenities
2. Build a seperate 10(?) stall garage for cold dry storage only
3. Forget the loft; I get tired of hauling heavy stuff up stairs
Have a nice day
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I did sit down with a pencil and paper and design my dream home/garage sitting on 20 acres. It's be a very very large warehouse building with skylights and nothing spectacular about it on the outside except maybe a Hudson logo painted on the garage door. Ceilings 20-25 ft high. On the inside it would have a sky painted on the cieling and the floorplan would be divided kind of like a hollywood set into a small "mainstreet USA" with one intersection and each of the smaller buldings inside would house different things among which would be a car showroom and shop., and one would be divided off for living quaters. All my cars not being worked on would be parked on "the street" which I would pave complete with storm drains...sort of like bringing the outside inside. It'd be really cool and a great place to throw a party and probably scare away any woman who did not also love cars. LOL0
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I guess I just think small I just want an old car agency . Hudson Dave [url]www.FatWhiteWalls.com:rolleyes:[/url]0
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Right now, I've pretty much got my dream home and shop. The '03 F-4 tornado trashed the house and the shop was levelled. I built a new shop (38'x65') on the old house concrete slab (and it has a 12'x25' patio/carport, too!) and built the house right next to it.
Shop: http://rides.webshots.com/photo/524539799/1524545289073075023RlwQPM
I'm pretty happy with the status quo.:D0 -
Built mine 10 years ago 35x60. I just explained to the wife that however
big the house is so will the shop. Have 1 acre now surrounded by subdivisions
and could really use another building just for parking/storage.
My dream garage
was a 50x100(at least) with a vintage Spartan Manor mobile home inside.
Indoor/outdoor carpet for a small yard complete with lawn chairs,pool table,
large fridge,grille,party lights,couple fake palm trees and maybe a plastic
pink flamingo or two. Then I got married and somehow the dreamshop just
wasn't in the cards...
Speaking of garages lots of good info over on www.garagejournal.com
You can see mine on this thread.http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50780 -
66patrick66 wrote:Right now, I've pretty much got my dream home and shop. The '03 F-4 tornado trashed the house and the shop was levelled. I built a new shop (38'x65') on the old house concrete slab (and it has a 12'x25' patio/carport, too!) and built the house right next to it.
Shop: http://rides.webshots.com/photo/524539799/1524545289073075023RlwQPM
I'm pretty happy with the status quo.:D
Very nice Pat! I'm so jealous!0 -
Dear TwinH,
Saw a pic of your garage.
DANG !!!!
Peace,
Chaz0
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