New 2-car Garage, Converting 20 yr. old tractor shed to 2-car GARAGE Options

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With the acquisitions of my sweet '87 944 S and '81 928 5-spd, I had to have a place to keep them stored. To start, my & my wife's cars had to sit outside so I could keep them in 2 of the 3 bays in my attached 3-car garage. But that could not be permanent.

As I wrestled with the cost of building a new 2-car garage on our 15 acres - with today's construction costs, I was flumoxed in what to do.

Then I realized I already had most of my new garage & much of the lumber for it.

20 years ago I took a great 2-car aluminum carport a friend removed from his house for an addition. He was taking it to the dump. NO! My great JD 5045E tractor needed a home! Our property is mostly very contoured with few flat places near our log home my sons & I built ourselves in '99/'00, but I found one about 100 yds. from our house, about 15' lower grade. So I put the car port there on 6 - 6x6 posts.

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It had become a storage barn for large lumber and other remains from many earlier projects.

Location was perfect, at a turn in our driveway up to our log home, so I had it graded to put in a gravel entrance.

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And then used old large lumber stored there to build a framework for outer walls.

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And brought 120v circuit down 130' from the closest source, a storage shed, and installed LED lighting and outlets.

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