I know this has to have been discussed in the past. I may have even started the thread, but I can't find it using the search function. I tried. So, I am in the process of planning my last shop build. I want to make sure I steal every possible idea from you hooligans. Post up pics of your happy place. Inside the shop, outside the shop, upstairs etc.
Oh I have, but I need hot rodder's shops. I like the old vintage vibe that we all gravitate towards. A lot of the stuff over there borders on the "operating room" fringes.
This is more of an aesthetic response but some time ago I grabbed a bunch of old wood that was getting tossed. I plastered it on a couple walls of my garage thinking I would hang some old signs on it. Signs became so expensive and I hated the repo ones so I’ve began painting my own slowly whenever time permits.
Wow ! Cool Space ! My Buddy used , pallet wood to cover his shop walls . Looks very similar to your covering . Painted signs are too nice
Not too messy, but between my “stuff”, my Mercury 260 engine rebuild, and my son constantly dragging a project home, not clean either.
What about one of those short lifts? Not specifically this one, but something like it. https://www.toolpan.com/Stratus-SAE...MI1P6Fv-H1ggMV60lHAR0p5gmuEAQYAiABEgILb_D_BwE
Mine is 24x30 with a small chunk missing for a mudroom and back entrance to the house. And I don't have half the room you've got! How did you ever pull that off?
It is a mirage! This picture was taken a few years ago, before I added all the extra stuff like a second car, parts cleaner and other tools.
Now that looks like home! Throw in a snowblower, a couple or 3 engines some old machinery, too many work benches, oh and the daily driver. I'm still holding out for a TARDIS
I guess I should attempt to show mine. It's a 40x50 with 14' sidewalls. Upstairs I have our makeshift upholstery shop. I am breaking ground on the Dust Bowl Speed Shop World Headquarters of Mayhem soon. I dread moving all this ****. I haven't really ever taken any pics of the shop, so there are just random pics to show kinda what it looks like.
My raggedy old shop was built a long time ago with used materials and was a small time local mattress manufacturer into the early 60s. Took tons of work to get it to this point, but its just right for me. Been making use of leftover shipping crates for interior walls
here’s the shop here on the farm . My Grandfather built a fixture using a factory made laminated rafter for a pattern . Then my Great Grandfather, Grandfather and my Dad built rafters for this barn and 3 others . It was used for a couple years to feed calves . Then cleaned out and became the shop for the farm . It’s 30’x60’
My brothers and I inherited our Dads shop, which is actually a 32x60 Quonset that was built in the 40s. It is 2.5 hours away, but had to keep it.
Excuse the mess, still organizing shop. Shop itself is generic new construction, but office is something I patterned from old lumber company JD agency in ghost town I grew up in. Old split cedar siding from homestead houses my uncle had. Door is from the JD agency, I set it in at angle like it was in the original building. Interior has beaded paneling like the old building. Oval window is originally a 1/4” beveled mirror from the old school. I “unsilvered” it and SIL did Marmon Herrington logo from vinyl for me. Signs are from my late father. Old red 147 sign is fire call sign from the building, now gone. Shelves inside are from a Model T. I like old stuff…
Have to add the post office sign my dad saved from old post office. It was painted over another sign.
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