Why "The G-Word"?

Prior to this project actually breaking ground, the word Garage had become something of a 6-lettered swear word in our family. You see, we bought this house ~5 years ago only after I had verified that the setbacks and septic were ok to support building this garage. I've built foam core models in 1:20 scale; I've spent hundreds of hours playing with various designs with home CAD software.; I've studied neighborhood covenants, code books, and educated myself on proper building techniques. And through this all, and much to my wife's dismay, I've been talking about this experience to the point of driving those closest to me nuts. So, since around the beginning of this year, when I really started to get this ball rolling, this garage has been affectionately referred to as "The G-word".

Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Devil's in the Details....

Hey, look, it's not quite so bus-terminal-ish! They got most of the remaining OSB installed today, and window openings were framed -- a few of them twice. Got to looking out the door and noticed that my wider-than-tall window opening was framed out taller-than-wide. Turns out they missed that these are slider windows, not double-hungs. OOPS. At least we caught it early. Lost an hour or so on that one.

Shingles are going up too, and I'm happy that the ones on the front seem to match the house better - on the back they just look a tad darker - probably just a combination of them being wet, needing a few good rains and hot days to get washed off, etc...

Here's a shot of the inside. It'll shrink a little when the platform going out the back door is built and stairs are done (which go up from the back left corner toward the front).







And finally, one of the upstairs (taken from ~2' off the ground so not a good angle). Those knee walls are somewhere close to 5' I think. I think code will require I add some sort of rail to that 2' step up once I do finish that area out, but I'd still keep it an open plan. The storage areas outside the knee walls are pleasantly sizable, as well - not huge, mind you, but big enough to stack rubbermaids full of car stuff :-)

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