<VV> Need garage ideas (no Corvair)

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

John -- 24' x 24' sounds pretty good, especially if one does not have a 
garage, but since you are building it, and you want the shop of your 
dreams, if your codes and budget allow, I'd seriously suggest that 
bigger is better -- 32' x 32' would be great!

We built a 28' x 28' a few years ago, thinking sort of like you, and 
after you get two cars, a lawn tractor, and some benches in it, and 
maybe a chest freezer (full of elk),  a large roll-a-way, a table saw 
and drill press, and the pressure tank for the well, all of a sudden 
there was barely room to walk through the place, and certainly no room 
to work on a car, unless the car was outside.

So we built a 36' x 48' barn, half for hay and other storage and half 
enclosed shop -- the work space is over in the storage area now, cause 
the shop is full (after Dad died, I got most all his woodworking stuff 
and had to put it somewhere amongst the Rampy, the Corvan, and the 
356).  The old garage made a nice little "mother-in-law apartment", 
after some finish work was done.

24' x 24' is a nice size for a very cozy little one car shop.  Build a 
breezeway, con your wife into thinking it is stylish to park her rig in 
the breeze way, and don't EVER call it a carport! You need a space the 
size of a car to do your work in.  Maybe if you've successfully lived on 
a boat or a motor home for an extended period, then maybe *you* could 
make it work  Not me -- my spare parts take up that much room (I've 
learned).  :-)

Bigger. 

Bill S