[Steve91T]

Hey guys. We're planning on moving to Charlotte, NC soon. The houses in our price range have small garages (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The one we are really interested in is a 2 car, 18ft wide, by about 21ft long. The gas water heater is the corner, and a built in gas heater is nearby, which is nice. The garage is finished, and has pretty high ceilings, looks like 10ft or so. There's two built in over head storage shelves that are made out of wood, and hanging from the ceilings.

So, if we get this house or not, it doesn't matter. All the garages are about the same size. So, how do you guys make the most out of a small space? If there is enough ceiling height, I'd love to build a loft, to give me room for some of my larger, bulkier things, like the compressor and tires and stuff like that.

This house is going to be a stepping stone for us. We'll be in it for roughly 2 years, then we'll move to a larger house, where hopefully I can build myself a huge detached garage.


Anyway, I just wanted to get some opinions/pictures.

Thanks guys!
Steve

[Steve91T]

Here's the progress I've made. Next time I'm buying 1x4's instead of trying to rip all those boards from a sheet of plywood using a circular saw...took me forever. Other than that, it's going really well. I decided to take my time and paint everything, including the peg board. It'll make it look much nicer when done. My folding work bench turned out really good. I used two door hinges, which are plenty strong. I just have to try to come up with some folding legs. Anyone have any ideas? I bought replacement folding legs for a banquet table, which would have been really sturdy, but they are too short for the height of the work bench that I chose. I thought 2x4's with hinges would work well, but I don't have a way to keep them from flopping around. Lowes doesn't seem have anything for this application.

Tomorrow, I'm going to finish mounting the shelving brackets, and rip and paint the shelves. The next project after that is to get some serious lighting mounted on the ceiling.

Let me know what ideas you guys have for folding legs.

Steve

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This post has been edited by Steve91T: Feb 29 2012, 02:15 AM

[CrashTestDummy]

Here's the progress I've made. Next time I'm buying 1x4's instead of trying to rip all those boards from a sheet of plywood using a circular saw...took me forever. Other than that, it's going really well. I decided to take my time and paint everything, including the peg board. It'll make it look much nicer when done. My folding work bench turned out really good. I used two door hinges, which are plenty strong. I just have to try to come up with some folding legs. Anyone have any ideas? I bought replacement folding legs for a banquet table, which would have been really sturdy, but they are too short for the height of the work bench that I chose. I thought 2x4's with hinges would work well, but I don't have a way to keep them from flopping around. Lowes doesn't seem have anything for this application.

Tomorrow, I'm going to finish mounting the shelving brackets, and rip and paint the shelves. The next project after that is to get some serious lighting mounted on the ceiling.

Let me know what ideas you guys have for folding legs.

Steve

Hop on the Garage Journal web site and look in the Garage Gallery forum:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/forumdi...desc&page=2

One of the big posters there, Jack Olsen, has a little 2-car garage that he's turned into quite the little fab shop. He has many folding tables there, including one welding table that folds up against the wall so he can park his Porsche 930. The thread on his garage is 'the 12-gauge garage', to ease searches. I was just over there looking for Jack's thread, and discovered another thread where a guy is discussing his 20X20 buildout. There's TONS of ideas over there.