[G-Oil Guy]

Originally Posted by Jack Olsen

If you can look past the absence of a Camaro, I can show you one other path a suburban garage can take. I was limited to the existing size of my 20x21 two-car, and my budget was under $3,500 for the project. But I put together a place that makes the most of the available space (for carpentry, metal fab and work on my weekend car) with an assortment of second-hand industrial cabinets that I turned into storage and ten different work surfaces. I did all the work myself, including setting the tile and digging the pit for the lift. Everything in the place is second-hand, re-purposed or home-made.













Work benches that fold down from the wall:







You can see the lift in operation in this video:




http://www.petrolicious.com/articles...ck-olsen-s-911

Is it always this clean? No. Not by a long shot.





But it does go back to clean very quickly -- that's the real accomplishment of it, I think. I finally took the time to work out a place for everything to go when It's not being used.

In practice, it makes a huge difference not having to spend so much time looking for things you've misplaced. I spent years doing that.



More pictures and a bench-by-bench look at the place at the website I made for it: http://www.12-gaugegarage.com

Can you still get pit lifts?!

That be perfect for my current garage.

Also: how does the tile floor hold up? I've been going back and forth between epoxy and tile.