My New Project Shop/Apartment - Lateral-g Forums

almcbri · #1 02-17-2009, 11:32 PM

I have dreamed of having my own shop for a long time. My wife and I always thought it would be a good idea to find some land and build a garage with an apartment over it and then later on build a house on the property once we could save a little $.

We have decided to build a 40x80x12 metal building with a 25x40 2 bedroom apartment. I was originally going to build a loft apartment, but I don't care for stairs as we live on the 3rd floor right now.
It is a 5 acre lot right off of RT. 66.

Here is a couple of quick drawings my wife and I came up with. She is an architect and this took her all of an hour or so to create. I was pretty impressed with what she came up with. It will have a solid concrete room in the shop to hide out in from Tornadoes. She even through a picture of a 2 post lift, which I hope to eventually add in the future

I am trying to come up with some good ideas.

We are going to do all the work ourselves. I have a buddy that is going to help me with the electric and another friend helping with HVAC. Coming from a family of contractors I will be bumming some equipment to get the job done. It won't be anything fancy. We are going to add laminate wood flooring, basic cabinets ect.

Cutlass2181 · #2 02-17-2009, 11:35 PM

looks awesome, seems like your quite a lucky man.

VP23271 · #3 02-18-2009, 12:18 AM

Very cool, I like it!

**XcYZ** · #4 02-18-2009, 06:27 AM

That's a great way to do it. Looks really cool.

mdprovee · #5 02-18-2009, 07:51 AM

Very nice project. Look like fun.

**syborg tt** · #6 02-18-2009, 08:19 AM

Looks like a great project / house / apartment

I can't wait to see it start.

ps - have you been over at garagejournal.com yet ?

Vegas69 · #7 02-18-2009, 08:56 AM

Does she have a sister?

DriverzInc · #8 02-18-2009, 11:49 AM

Sweet. I would love to do the same, but something like that would take a small fortune where I live.

Jr · #9 02-18-2009, 12:51 PM

This is cool! I like the detail work.

wedged · #10 02-18-2009, 01:18 PM

That is a similar dimension to my building, except I went with a 16' eves height. Doing this made it possible to build a storage loft at some point and have 8' clearance below it. It would be a little short on the top side. Also, it would allow for extra clearance at the doors if i ever got a motorhome.