I'm rebuilding my house from the ground up, and I can only fit a four-car garage on my property (poor me!), so I'm doing an attached two-car garage for the wife and daily driver, then I'm going to do an air-conditioned detached garage for all my stuff. Knowing that there are smarter people out there than me, I'm going to post my list of items and see if anyone has any cool suggestions that I haven't thought of.

Garage will be 22' x 22'. 18' ceilings. Lots of flourescent lights. I already have tools, so I'm more interested in ideas for the layout. Here's what I'm going to do:

• Four-post or two-post lift
• Floor covering of either epoxy, stained concrete, or tile
• Space for air compressor with air hose routing to the center of garage ceiling
• Clothes dryer (worth the space I lose?)
• Lots of cabinets, shelves, and counterspace
• Space for utility sink
• Space for tool box
• A lot of electrical plugs in groups of four at floor and counter level
• Space on table for vice and cutting wheel/polisher
• Used oil container for oil changes
• Transmission jack
• Space for mini-fridge
• Wired for music and TV

It's gonna be a killer garage. I don't plan on welding or getting crazy with hard-core machines. But I do plan on working on the cars there. What else am I gonna need? What am I forgetting?

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600