My issue has been that finding those types of cabinets has been nearly impossible since I first saw an article about his garage i swear years ago. I just do not believe he was able to get them so cheaply.
Same with the Tile. I check lowes and home depot every to every other weekend. Never have they even had commercial grade tile. yet somehow he was able to nab enough for a garage on sale?
My garage cabinets came out of the trash. My wife spotted them at the curb while out running.
David S. Wallens wrote: And hope some of you check out the series over in Classic Motorsports. I think there's some really cool stuff to be learned. We collected all of these tips for an article. I started assembling it and realized I was up to like 5000 words and dozens of photos. That's too much for one issue, but it would make a great miniseries. So the idea was born.
Might be time for "Classic Motorsports Monographs".
David - Please delete this post if it is inappropriate!
Jack has a great build thread over on garagejournal under "The 12-Gauge Garage" documenting the process.
Ive read his thread a few times. The one that is a truly great inspiration is lilscorpion tooling organization thread. That man hasddiscovered more ways to use wasted space than I have thought possible.
In reply to David S. Wallens:
My last house I just sold, in order to have more garage space, I bought a large shed with shelves built in on the inside with a locking door, like one of these:
http://oldhickorybuildings.com/album/delivery-pictures/
That way, I could not only keep stuff in there like bikes - wifes décor boxes - etc but extra car parts so the garage had more work area
Check out Jack's deck build too. The guy's got a great eye for detail.
That 911 isn't just a prop for the garage. It's a legit track weapon that's under constant development using things like hand-built wings built in that garge. And I think he followed the air-cooled 911 acquisition principle of buying it before the prices went insane.
Just started poking around online looking at sheds. I wonder if it's possible to build one that incorporates a quarter-pipe? You know, just wondering.
"My motto from early on was: The floor is not a shelf." "Every flat surface is a shelf. All of them."
Arrgh! I am SOOOO confused!
"What about a shed for that other stuff?"
Ummm.. Shed is full too.
Next you will tell me things like I don't really need 2 rototillers. Well, 3 if you count the two stroke one also... I did get rid of the floor jack that does not work. Wait... Getting rid of junk will be part of this, won't it.
The sheds built by Amish or Mennonites (like the one I had), had full frame/shingled roofs. Some have windows. I added some screw in hangers to hang stuff up, and used overhead storage.
I've seen people run electricity to them, add workbenches, etc.
that way, the garage is for "cars only" and no other stuff.
Instead of a shed, perhaps I just need less stuff. We're close.
Our garage has a little closet that's perfect for the mower and lawn stuff. Perhaps if I move my whale tale of out there we'll have more space.....
In reply to Dusterbd13:
He also has a build thread for the garage before it became the 12 Guage Garage.
In reply to Mad_Ratel:
The cabinets in my garage came from a building salvage place that my neighbour owned.
They demoed a 1950's era apartment complex and every suite had these steel kitchen cabinet systems in it. I bought a bunch and they worked great.
I think the brand was "steel king" or something like that.
They look exactly like these: 
My garage cabinets came from my father's neighbor who redid his bathrooms just wood cheapo's from the 80's. 12 gauge used super heavy duty commerical steel cabinets weighing nearly 500 lbs each yet claimed to pay something silly like 50 bucks a cabinet...(from what I recall)
Thanks for the nice words, guys.
Having a shed makes it possible for the garage to be a lot more functional. In addition to a couple of welders and tools I use less-frequently, I also use the shed to hold flammable chemicals and oil and batteries that are waiting to go to recycling. There's also space for a lot of the other stuff -- the kids' stuff, holiday ornaments and other storage.
I'm not much of a carpenter, but I'd gotten a Home Depot gift card as part of some promotion and decided to use it to build a shed in what was otherwise wasted space alongside the driveway. I sketched out the idea at breakfast and was building by lunch. The two curves for the roofs come from a dinner plate and a dessert plate that were sitting in the kitchen when I made the drawing.
I'd never built a roof or put shingles on anything. But it's held up for 7 years, so far.
Mad_Ratel wrote: My issue has been that finding those types of cabinets has been nearly impossible since I first saw an article about his garage i swear years ago. I just do not believe he was able to get them so cheaply. Same with the Tile. I check lowes and home depot every to every other weekend. Never have they even had commercial grade tile. yet somehow he was able to nab enough for a garage on sale?
Check out your local Restore, and don't forget about CL.
This is free, for example, and looks like it might just cover the working part of a garage floor.
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/zip/5135240269.html
The charlotte Restore has some amazing things. My local (greenville sc.) has stuff that the dump would reject...
I got all of the cabinets through a now-defunct outfit called Reliable Tools. They bought up the stock of old machine shops and such and remarketed the stuff on Ebay. At one point, they bought up the stock of a shut-down Toyota upholstery factory and had over 200 Stronghold cabinets available as a result. As anyone who's looked knows, the second-hand prices on these things still tend to be very high. A lot of that batch sold for very close to (and sometimes more than) retail. But I was patient for four of them that fell through the cracks.
The tile I have is from Home Depot and even when it's not on sale it's only 68 cents a square foot.
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