Some nice shops/garages on here!! Makes me a bit jealous at the moment. I've wanted to build a pole barn at the back of our 3/4 acre lot for several years now, mostly in order to store our travel trailer.....but for whatever reason we never pulled the trigger on it despite the fact that is was doable for us financially.
Now I know why...with the purchase of our '74 Challenger back in late October, we came up with the idea of expanding the attached two car garage we have now. Of course, at the moment it can only hold one car (my 2014 Ford Fusion Hybrid which is my daily driver.) because it's SO damn full of my wife's "junk". The good news is, a few weeks ago I told her that I never want to have to store our Challenger across the street in my neighbor's (awesome) garage (which you can see in the background of my avatar pic of our car) over the winter again, and that I want to be able to work on this car, plus the others that will come in the future, in OUR own garage. She agreed, so here in the next couple of weeks we're going to get started cleaning it out, which is good since I'm pulling our Challenger out of storage next weekend.
To be honest, the biggest selling point for her is that I told her I didn't want to be working in a pole barn/garage at the back of our lot while she was inside the house doing whatever. Our kids are grown and raised and pretty much out of the house, and it's just the 2 of us now. We're 45 and 44, having been married 26 years with four adult children, and it's the first time it's just been us. We're going to expand the attached garage back and front to make a TON more space, plus heat it (the frontward expansion will basically become the "new garage", while the back 2/3 will the indoor shop. We're going to replace our regular kitchen door that leads into the garage with a sliding patio door, etc. We want it to basically be like another room on the house. This way I can be out tooling on our Mopars, and she's just inside the house. Anyways, very excited about this...as you can tell from the long-winded post. lol
