Show me your garage setups!
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Hi iv now got 2 bikes a gsxr750 2013 and an mv f4 750 which is mint. I am now turning my attention to my garage. I live in a new build house with the usual smallish single garage. Its only around 6m long and 3m wide! Im going to get grey non slip porcelain floor tiles from direct tile warehouse and around 10 led lights to give a bright, even light. Im not sure about garage cabinets or other home comforts that i might want/ need 
so any pictures or recommendations would be really useful to help me make use of the smallish space! Cheers
so any pictures or recommendations would be really useful to help me make use of the smallish space! Cheerssnorky782 said:
That is not a small single garage at all and is much bigger than new builds normally come with.
Be happy, you should fit loads in there, I've got five bikes inside a single garage previously.
5? Is that all?? I have 6, one in a box and room for a beer fridgeBe happy, you should fit loads in there, I've got five bikes inside a single garage previously.
I can't get in it though for bloody bikes
Doesn't sound like you're going to do this on the cheap (with porcelain floor tiles and all), but I got a set of 10 10W LED floodlights off ebay, used 6 in my shed, and it lights it up a treat.
The shed is 4.2m x 6.9m approx., not quite finished yet though:
Most importantly for lighting, make sure the walls are brightly painted and clean.
The shed is 4.2m x 6.9m approx., not quite finished yet though:
Most importantly for lighting, make sure the walls are brightly painted and clean.
Don't get creature comforts for f
ks sake.
My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a fking IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.
Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the st out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.
It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
ks sake.My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a f
king IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the s
t out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
Prof Prolapse said:
Don't get creature comforts for fks sake.
My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a fking IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.
Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the st out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.
It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
LOL. ks sake.My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a f
king IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the s
t out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
I moved house last week and now have a garage! Last place had a porch which was just big enough to squeeze the bike in and no more. So this feels like real luxury. Walls and floor will be getting painted. Bought a new suite for the living room so I'll be inheriting the old sofa. Then I just need wifi and a workbench 
Prof Prolapse said:
Don't get creature comforts for fks sake.
My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a fking IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.
Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the st out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.
It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
This^^ks sake.My best mate is cracking bloke but his workshop area of his massive garage is like a f
king IKEA showroom. He's got pictures hung up, laminate flooring, even his work bench is excess kitchen units which are nicer than the ones I use in my actual fking kitchen. He got a big screen telly in there the other month and used old bits of wood and scaffolding, which would seem a good cost saver, had he not spend a fortune on brackets. Vintage posters for Shell and other toy cars and st too. Also a fridge.Garages/workshops/sheds should be poorly lit with fluorescent lights you found in skip, using the incorrect wiring you liberated from a building site, secured with the wrong screws you had left over from flat pack job over a decade ago. You should wire it yourself in such a way you feel the need to remind your loved ones to never, ever, touch the switches and sockets.
The walls should be initially white, then never cleaned again so they are dirty with hand prints, some of which will be blood from inevitable miscalculations that happen as an avid DIYer. There will be splashings of copper grease to ruin your best jeans when you pop in for a screwdriver, and pictures of naked women crudely taken from the daily sport. You are permitted a motorcycle calendar, but it must be at least four years out of date and stuck on the page of that bike you like because the rest "are for homos".
You are only permitted two comforts; your radio, which must be old and big enough to remind you of a giant flashing version of the obelisk from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The second comfort is your ongoing collection of spiders. You are permitted to call one of them Boris, in a quiet nod to the song "Boris the Spider", which your wife will never find amusing. Boris is typically the Alpha spider, and will decorate your working area with the corpses of lesser spiders, until one day he will scare the s
t out of you and you will chase him with a can of WD40 and a lighter. He will be unharmed. You will wonder how the flame didn't go back in the can and kill you like you were told it would as a child.It's a functional building and you're a bloke. Don't go Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about it.
I have no garage so i do it all
style in my garden LOL.As much as i like the "show" garages i really like the dingey poorly lit with grease everywhere type of garage you know where s
t really gets fixed.Mine's got shelving all round from my old office, three rollcabs and a whiteboard which is mainly used for drawing cocks on. Old carpeting from parents house on floor. I recently got a radio which gets more than one channel on it and can play my ipod, but this feels a bit extravagant.
Here's what's going on in it atm...
Here's what's going on in it atm...
Here's mine (pre-clutter), 4m x 6m although the end 1.5m is partitioned as an office.
High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
catso said:
Here's mine (pre-clutter), 4m x 6m although the end 1.5m is partitioned as an office.
High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
I like this a lot High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
catso said:
Here's mine (pre-clutter), 4m x 6m although the end 1.5m is partitioned as an office.
High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
I shall delete my post now! High level shelving for storage, it's actually the end 4m of a 13m x 6m building, the rest being my car garage. I partitioned this as a clean, bike specific area that's small enough to keep warm through the winter.
First of all guys thanks alot for the replies. They have given me alot of food for thought! I ended up buying 147 dotti anthracite non slip porcelin tiles for £210 including vat and fitting which is £300 cheaper than the plastic floor tiles like mototile! They were great to deal with and hopefully will look good when in. Im beginning to think that 10 leds are a bit of overkill! Especially if one of you has put 6 leds in a shed thats bigger than my garage. Seriously liking some of the setups youve shown me. Loving the ducati in the office. Do you have any more pics of it? Is it an 1199s? Also liking the high level storage with the downlighters below it. Very smart! Il post a few pics to show my progress. thanks again
thanks again
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