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Build and Design Garage Effectively (4)

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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It depends on the alternatives. I’d never owned a garage before, but I’ve converted the one I now own into the workshop about which I’ve dreamed for 25 years. The car stays in the driveway, toward the end closest to the street. After having had to work in relatively dark, cramped basements for all those [...]

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Build and Design Garage Effectively (3)

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

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Although our garage was not ideally suited for expansion, any extra space your garage provides should not be overlooked in your renovation plans. Unfortunately, most garages have become collection areas for everything we can’t fit anywhere else in the house, and before you can even begin to appropriate the space, you’ll need to come up [...]

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Build and Design Garage Effectively (2)

Friday, September 30, 2011

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With an idea in his head but absolutely no plan, my father got started on the bedroom. He reasoned that I’d be a lot more comfortable if he was able to divide the garage in two with a wall between where he parked the car and where I’d be sleeping. So one Saturday morning he [...]

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Build and Design Garage Effectively

Monday, September 26, 2011

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A garage offers room for expansion, for storage, and even for the car. My late father, Alfred R. Heavens, was a great guy with wonderful ideas, but he wasn’t always successful on the follow-through. I vividly recall the time, 40 years ago, that he decided to build me a bedroom in our garage, which was [...]

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