Shop Ideals

[East Coast Ghost]

I have been working on some ideals for a shop. One Ideal is to buy some land put up like a 60x90 steel buliding and taking 30x60 of it and making it into a 2,2 house to live in. I was just wondering if you all have heard of this befor?

I mean it would have a full fire wall and vapor barior to separate the two parts. and that would still leave a 60x60 garage/shop.

So what do you think of the ideal all opinions welcom good or bad.

[8ball xj]

sounds great as long as you don't plan on getting married

[texaspyro21]

Or you've already got the very understanding wife.

[PAToyota]

I can think of two places around here where somebody did something just like that. One other that I know of, they did a two story garage (shop below and house upstairs) to live in while they built their house and then turned the upstairs part into guest quarters.

I agree that if it looks like a warehouse you're going to need one heck of an understanding wife!

[Denis4x4]

Do a two story building with living quarters on top. Install a dumb waiter for the groceries or an elevator. You can move your furniture in through a hot tub deck and sliding doors with a sky lift.

More importantly, a 2 story building will improve the resale value.

[frankenfab]

That's a great ideal! I wish I could come up with ideals like that! That ideal is really quite ideal. :flipoff2:

Probably have poor resale value for your investment.

[BadDog]

On the 2 story suggestions, not ideal since it limits height for things like lifts and gantrys. However, you could do like a half second floor or something so that part of the lower floor had very high sealings, or you could make a 2 story that was the height of a 3 story, but that brings other problems.

[rokcrln]

As far as a lift area I just bought a place that has a smaller 25x45 shop. We are goint to add a second story on top for a game room (pool table,air hocky, darts and a bar). The shop will have a 10' ceiling over 35' and the last 10' will be open to above for a lift. The up stairs will end up being 25x35 with a bathroom to boot.