Greg.......... you gonna have one of these in the new house?

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Che70velle

You watching or driving this one?

Well -- I'd be a donor and then I'd just watch -- I don't have anything street legal that i'd try to drive fast. My little F-150 pick up wouldn't be much fun... and we got rid of the R8 and the S63.

I don't think my hot rods would be much in the top speed driving.

[Che70velle]

Gotcha! Didn't know the R8 was gone.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Che70velle

Gotcha! Didn't know the R8 was gone.

Well... this move to Sun Valley -- which was a "sudden" decision for us last year at this time... has us making some life changes. This is a super small town... We walk most of the time. With the addition of our Chocolate Lab "Stella" ---- and the hiking and biking and skiing etc... there's not much use for high end cars. We're not going to take Stella for a hike on the dirt trails and then have her jump in the R8 or the S63.... so those went down the road. I am most likely the only human in the entire universe to ever trade in a 20,000 mile S63 on an F-150 pickup. Gwen decided she wanted to get a white Porsche Cayenne GTS -- ditching the Black turbo -- and since it was summer - they took the R8 and sold that for us - rather than waiting until next year and having it depreciate even more...

So far -- I've been using about 1/8th of a tank of gas a week or 10 days in the F-150 and the Range Rover sits in the garage.

Cars here are FILTHY all the time --- even though there is ONE car wash in town (OMG I swear on my own life -- to think of running a black car through that thing is just WRONG!!). It snows - and the sun comes out - and it turns into black crud... and it's cold as hell so you can't wash with a bucket and hose... so what I'm trying to say is -- the car situation over here just had to be changed up.

Once we move in to the house -- the stuff will all be washed by hand INDOORS... in the shop. But that's 2 years away.

[snappytravis]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Travis ---- we began by saying we wanted 4500 to 5000 feet... with the changes it became 8000 feet!!! We then told the architect -- who had decided on his own to just push thing this way and that -- that he had to "find" a way to take at least 1500 to 2000 feet OUT of this project!! A) there's only the two of us most of the time B) we can't afford to build 8000 feet with all the cost of the shop and everything else C) we're not really very fancy people and thought the whole idea of living in a McMansion was just ostentatious and certainly not "us" -- having said that -- I'd still build smaller than what we are - but there becomes a point in the "I want list" and what it takes to get there - and what the area "demands" due to dirt costs etc.

Yes -- similar to Jackson Hole -- but I think Sun Valley is much friendlier and a lot less touristy and we tend to attract people that own here (second houses etc) over the come for the weekend/week crowd. The airport and services here SUCK... and that holds down the fly in and out folks. It takes some effort to get here.

It will be nice, I haven't been up that way before I bought my 67 chevelle from a guy in Pocatello, I remember him telling me about a big car auction up there do they still do that?
5000 s.f. Is still a dam big house. I will send you some pictures of the one we are having built. It has a 5 car garage. Does your wife have you watching the home shows yet? They have been on at our house for the last 2 years. Good luck

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by snappytravis

It will be nice, I haven't been up that way before I bought my 67 chevelle from a guy in Pocatello, I remember him telling me about a big car auction up there do they still do that?
5000 s.f. Is still a dam big house. I will send you some pictures of the one we are having built. It has a 5 car garage. Does your wife have you watching the home shows yet? They have been on at our house for the last 2 years. Good luck

Well... Quite frankly... there's no good reason to have a house this size for two people. But the shop is the focal point of my life - and as it got sized to accommodate the stuff that needs to be in there... and as that area grew the upper floors grew. And we wanted separation for guests/kids etc. so they just take on a life of their own. All told this is now 6,700 square feet -- the shop is 4,300 and with the garage the whole thing is 12,000ish square feet. JUST SHOOT ME....

I retired from the wholesale furniture business -- style - fabrics - colors - that's my background professionally... so I do that stuff, not Gwen. We must agree - but we agree really well. We're two peas in a pod that way.

[GregWeld]

Not sure how this became a house picture thread -- but since it originally started out asking if I'd have a hi-tech parking garage... I guess it's okay to hijack it.... which it's too late anyway. Sorry Jody!


So since this is a car site -- the only part of the house thats of any real interest is the garage space. So we changed a few things since the original drawings were posted. Instead of two huge doors - it was better to do one huge door --- and a smaller more normal door. That meant things had to move around -- which lead to representative place holders being drawn up.

I will never park the pickup in this area -- since we have a normal garage up above with better access to the house... but we put it in anyway since this is the parts chaser and it needed to be accommodated.


The posts are staggered so that a car can actually be driven in -- and maneuvered to get to the lift -- and or just stored. The bump out on the right
is to accomodate tire storage. When you have 3 regular vehicles and 2 track cars - tires seem to stack up. Winter tires for the normal stuff and spares for the track stuff (I have 3 full sets of wheel / tire combo just for the Lotus!)...

The rear most area is the machine shop.











Now you get the idea for the staggered door sizes.....and these views start to reveal the "BIG DIG" that has to take place in order to fit the semi in there! Thanks Charley!..... NOT!












And here's the roofline area showing the general shape of the house... with the three separate wings - and the wings are on different elevations as well - because of the shape of the hillside.

[Flash68]

Do you like the look, balance, a.k.a. "the flow" of the large garage door for the semi with the smaller one to the right?

[Ketzer]

You have to disconnect the tractor to have the whole rig inside?!? Come on GW, dig a little deeper into mountain....



Jeff-

[SSLance]

Big door 14' tall? Does that make the ceiling in the garage 18' tall?

Sure hope you don't hit rock digging that out...

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Do you like the look, balance, a.k.a. "the flow" of the large garage door for the semi with the smaller one to the right?

After we sneak over there and put a BIG A** Weld Racing decal on that door it will break the expanse and flow fine.