Recipe for dedicating your garage to your car and placating the wife.
Take one standard garage designed for 1960’s cars currently filled with fridge, freezer, bikes, ladders, tools and all sorts of other cr*p.
Prepare a loft with flooring, lighting shelves etc (£200 materials only).
Build a lean-too on the side of the house, preferably enclosed by a fence to make a covered passage (£1200).
Get a skip and put as much of the stuff in it as possible. Be brutal (£120 materials only).
Put the rest of the stuff in the loft and wherever else it can go.
Put bikes in the lean-too area.
The clever bit:
With your garage completely empty, start work on it:
Fit a new door (£700)
Paint the floor and walls (£50 materials only)
Create an “L†shaped partition so the nose of the car tucks under the partition. On the other side of the partition is a storage room with a 1 metre wide shelf which is part of the partition (£150 materials only).
In this room, fit kitchen units, a worktop (£120), freezer and dryer if needed.
Get the measurements right so your car has 2†clearance front and back and windscreen (up against shelf).
Fit block on the floor to ensure you don’t roll forward into the partition.
Fit lighting and electrical points (£75).
Paint Scorpion (using stencil and spray) on partition and put up notice board.
Proudly place car in garage while praying it fits.
Points to note:
Don’t tell the missus your full plans, quietly start work on the loft, then the back of the garage etc so it looks like you’re doing a great DIY Home improvement. Then move onto the car bit.
Total cost £2600, and lots of work. Very satisfying end result.
