This might be a bit premature to be talking about this but we have a HUGE garage that (hopefully) will be pretty empty in the next year-if everything goes as planned. At that point, we need to decide what we want to do with it.
Here is a pic of it:
As you can see, it is large-two bay-two story. Right now, there is a whole bunch of crap...er...stuff in there that we are getting rid of. I have had a series of yard sales and plan on having at least 2 this year. Hopefully that will be enough to clean it out for the most part. (At least now we can actually walk in it-last year we couldn't even do that.)
We plan on having it painted-but that is put on hold until the boat that is sitting in front of it is gone. (Anyone want to buy a 25 ft sailboat?)
There are boards on the second floor that need to be replaced, the windows need to be replaced and we are going to electrify it. (It was at one time-you can see the old knob & tube.)
So, once it is cleared out, we will have all that space that we really don't know what to do it. I know the first thing that people will say is to put our car in it. We have thought about that. The garage is quite a ways from the house and it will be more convenient to leave the car where we have it in the driveway next to the house. Also, if we keep the car in the garage in the winter, then we have to shovel/plow just to even GET to the garage. We would love to keep our camper van in the garage in the winter but it is too tall for the garage doors.
Of course the lawn mower, weed-wacker, and such will be stored in there.
We hate to just leave it empty.
Some ideas we have been tossing around:
-Having it set up for garage sales. We have dismissed this idea because it sits so far back from the road that most people will miss it. We do better having the sales in the front yard even though it is inconvenient carrying the crap...er....stuff back and forth.
-Hot tub. Yeah, that sounds great but it cost a lot of $$$ because you have to keep it heated even when you are not using it.
-Sauna. This is more realistic. We only have to turn it on a few minutes before we use it and then turn it off when we are done. But, that only takes up a small part of the garage and we still have a lot of room left. I believe we can use this in the cold weather.
-Putting in an exercise room was also thrown around but neither one of us would really use it and it would be a total waste of $$$$.
-I thought about holding dances in there in the summer. It is unheated and we are NOT going to heat it (too expensive). The downstairs flooring is uneven and we may be able do it upstairs once we replace the rotted floorboards.
These are some of the ideas we have thrown around. Any other ideas will be gratefully appreciated. Just keep in mind, it is NOT heated (nor will it be) and we are dealing with New England winters.
Cat
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