Garage - Porsche Pen's Post Your Pixs

[JackMan]

Fellow Pelicanites

My 89 911 coupe shares a three car garage with a Ford Expedition, a 2.0 VW Cabriolet AX One Lap Veteran, a dog, a cat (and it's cat box), my wife's gardening gear, sleds, kid stuff (3 of them ages 11-5) such as bikes, boards, skooters, etc.

Toys. Kid Gear. Family Gear. My 11 year old son gets it. Everyone else in the family doesn't. Door dings drive me nutz.

I'm constantly worrying about door dings, etc. My 911 is a daily driver except in salt conditions, I live in N.E. Ohio. I sacrifice my 2002 SAAB to the ice, and it lives outdoors on the driveway.

Here's my quandry, I'm thinking of building a three sided Porsche Pen made of 4x8 sheets of plywood, effectively sealing off the car to the wondering bike handlebars... oh and did I mention there are three large trash cans in the garage.

Please post pictures of how you protect your P-Car in hostile environments.

I'm looking for ideas.

Wellborn

[ZOA NOM]

Take off your skirt and take back your garage. That's the "man's" room. Put her garden stuff in the garden. Put the toys the kids still use in the back yard, donate the ones they don't. Put the trash cans outside. Dude, seriously. It's YOUR garage.

[speedracer]

This isn't my garage but by far the best looking way of putting a barrier between your car and everything else.....

[johndglynn]

I've got a tiny garage at home for the car - was built for an Austin Seven back in the 1930's and mine barely fits into it. Anything else people want to put in there just won't fit! Works for me

[widebody911]

[bell]

you are entitled to 2 garage spots.....divide so her suv is the side nearest the house so they don't have to walk by the p-car, park your one lap car next to the p-car, outside when you need to do a big project, make the wifes spot wide enough where they could be walked around while opened, this should give you plenty of "do not enter" area.

...get a shed for the garden stuff/unused toys, there are lots of ways to hide garbage cans outside.....it's garbage....it should be outside anyway, bikes could be kept in front of the suv.....a ding here or there on it and....well.....it's her car not the 911

i'm in akron btw

[rouxroux]

Here's our work in progress: we added onto the rear of one of our 2-car garages...1/2 is another car storage space (with room to install a lift at the far end. the other side is a guest room/cabana.

[Rick V]

Originally posted by johndglynn
I've got a tiny garage at home for the car - was built for an Austin Seven back in the 1930's and mine barely fits into it. Anything else people want to put in there just won't fit! Works for me

It may ba small but I love it, all the brick and wood have a nice "feel" I would be happy to trade your brick for my cinderblock.
mine is small (not like that) and my family knows not to dare invade "Ricks house of speed and Porsche emporiem" as it has been come to be known

[S2GART]

It would be easier if you posted a picture of your current set up. For us, the bikes and lawn stuff are in a shed. Leaving pleanty of room for the car in the garage.

[ted]

Making the mortgage in San Diego.
1000sf inside + a double carport.

[johndglynn]

Originally posted by Rick V
It may ba small but I love it, all the brick and wood have a nice "feel" I would be happy to trade your brick for my cinderblock.
mine is small (not like that) and my family knows not to dare invade "Ricks house of speed and Porsche emporiem" as it has been come to be known

Thanks Rick, might be small but has seen a lot of work in there in the five years since we moved in. Finally though I have got planning permission/building approval to dig out everything surrounding my house and start again - am about to build a double-decker garage, drum room, office, total dad's pad in the back corner of our garden, about time too as the old garage is just about to fall down! Cheers, JG

[Diverwes]

Still have to clean up but its nice.

[Porsche84]

I think you need to let your wife have all of the garage and then you build a three bay garage for yourself, and add a lift. But, don't come back later and ask to put the tractor in her garage because yours is too full....... I was hoping to post a photo but can't seem to.

[Porsche84]

OK, it was simple to attach after all, i was on the quick reply post. Hope this works.

[Jon Merck]

At my house it all boils down to rules. I share the garage with assorted kids stuff, you ding my car I ding your butt! Worked so far!

[ja78911sc]

I purchased used office cube dividers and boxed off my car in the third stall. I share my garage with a Mini van, Tahoe, wife & two young boys! I can't post a picture because I temporarily removed the dividers to gain additional room for my suspension upgrade.

I highly recommend the dividers. Since I removed the dividers, I noticed a small dent on my fender. Ouch! I would check with your local office furniture dealers. They usually have used dividers laying around which can be purchased cheap. A lot less than building a permanent wall.

Good luck.

[RarlyL8]

First off, I park my daily driver next to the P-car which is next to the wall so it is effectively protected.
Secondly there are precious few things that are solely my own, the family respects that.
And if that doesn't work you put in a lift. Try and ding the door now and see who comes out the looser!

[randywebb]

Build your sife a special gardening shed near her garden - B'day, anniversery, whatever. Show your love. Put all her crapxxxx oooohhhh I meant tools in there.

As per above comment, small cedar shed for the garbage & recycling - also be sure to get plastic cans as they won't ding the car. Toss the metal ones into the recycling pile or use for potting soil or something.

Next work on the kids crap. You need Lebensraum.

[CBRacerX]

Have similar worries in my house. Three kids, 2 Porsches, 2 SUVs, 1 Motorcycle, 8 bikes and 2 tractors. Plus outdoor furniture that needs to be stored in the winter, etc, etc, etc...

And me with only an attached 2 car garage.

You can buy a shed ready to drop onto a simple crushed rock bed in the backyard. I got one that was 12x24 with a garage door on it for about $4K and put most of the "stuff" that seems to clog most garages in there. I also put a Rubbermaid garden shed outside the garage for ready access to garden items. That left enough space for the "stuff" so that the garage could stay a garage. Still have two dogs in there, but all the other is somewhere else. But I am packed to the gills in the garage! Storage cabinets are a must.

I downgraded big time on my latest house vis-a-vis the garage, so I had to do something. Long term plan is building a two story three place garage and convert existing one to living space. But the family plan says "new kitchen first" and so on. We will get there eventually!

Chris

Messy but it is all car related


The shed that makes all the difference!