REKIII

Mmmm salty. 
 
:side note: The car heats up quick now with the coolant system and heater sorted. BUT, I have a few holes I need to plug to keep the air from coming in. Without interior panels it’s quite drafty. 

We've been experiencing you for years.  With that joke out of the way lol.  I echo the same concern about the turn radius getting on to the 4 post and what's going on to the pallet racking in the far corner.  If it's actual pallets that requires a fork truck then that may be a hassle to jimmy between the lifts with a pallet on it.  My other thing is the orientation of the toolbox.  I'm a big fan of pushing as much as I can against a wall flat AND having it as close to my work station as possible.  I'd almost move the toolbox next to the 4 post (unless that's car storage) or in front of the 2 post since I could see that being a more useful lift for repairs.  I've worked on lifts with the toolbox in front of it and you think "no way, it'll be crowded!" then you do it and you're like "fuck, that's life changing".  Maybe not that dramatic but I always enjoy having tools as close as possible.  I set my 2nd garage up sans lift for now with my toolbox in front of my work station.

Obligatory “I’ve never designed a garage before, yada yada.”

What are you using the pallet racking for? Actual pallets of stuff, or random storage? My thought right now is the orientation of the 4-post lift, it seems like it might be a bit of a pain to jockey cars in and out with that 90 degree turn. I’d be inclined to keep it as more of a straight shot, but visualizing the amount of room you have may be deceiving me lol. I would be inclined to put the 4-post parallel to the 2-post in the corner there where the pallet racking is, then move all the pallet racking to the “north” wall, with maybe one rack in the southwest corner for storing raw material or small items. 

I’d say toolbox would work where it is, or maybe put it in the northwest corner in front of the 4 post for easy access. Then you could have the southwest corner for the CNC stuff, any blast equipment, etc. and could even put up partitions between that stuff and the lifts to keep metal and debris off the cars. Kinda depends on how big the toolbox is and which lift you’ll be using to wrench on stuff more.
Whatever you go with, that’s going to be a really sweet setup, I look forward to seeing it progress! If it’s anything like your basement project, I think I’m going to like it. 

Check out this sweet i8! ....🤢
https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/d/muskego-performance-bmw-335/7258213508.html
 
"This car is a head turner, literally everyone stares. It’s honestly almost embarrassing lol. "
 

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

I envy all of your basements, inspiration for my future for sure. 

Calm down pal, WiBoomers takes precedent 

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

WiBasements.com
Suggested website name change

The stone on the wall looks really good. Almost like a nice restaurant feel. Im not sure I ever remember seeing that done before but I like it a lot

I don't have a basement, but I have the internet.
Why is the internet? I don't even.

That basement looks fantastic. It’s huge. I do wish ours was a little larger to accommodate some other things than just a playroom.
 
My wife gave me the entire garage to do whatever I want to with, though. So I can’t complain. 

Gentlemen,
It has come to my attention that there are some among us who have fallen on hard times and need a bit of support while their circumstances improve.
Starting today, we will be collecting non-perishable food items for the @REKIII family. Donations can be made in person at the Black E46s of New Berlin satellite office

2860 S 108th St,
West Allis, WI 53227
*please no more than 3 dented cans per donation. Bulged cans must be within 10% of their original diameter.

Oh....here was the bathroom.  Just needed a good cleaning at the end.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

Oh....here was the bathroom.  Just needed a good cleaning at the end.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

Oh....here was the bathroom.  Just needed a good cleaning at the end.

These are some neat projects.  We finally finished out basement as well.  Bought the house 7 years ago.  Basement was sorta finished, but just very white-box-ish.  So after a couple years we added a bathroom, then demo'd the rest, then it sat until the end of last year.  Finally got moving and finished it.
Basically how it started last year....we have pics of what it looked like when we moved in somewhere.  The whole ceiling was dropped and had conduit everywhere.  In these pics, the ceiling is gone and I relocated all the wires into the joist like they were supposed to be.







Here I have a bunch of the bar framed in and the plumbing pretty much done.  Had to dig a sumpcrock into the floor then route everything overhead.  I hired someone to do the framing but did the electric and plumbing, just to keep the project moving.


Ran a second zone of HVAC too.


Opened up the stairwell and added stair lights.

Exercise was staying the exercise room so it became a temporary home to a lot of crap

It was not fun getting things down the stairs, but having it opened helped A LOT

The movie room stayed the movie room but we had to fix the back wall (left side in pic) and the ceiling got insulated and painted black.

I hired out the drywall too. 




Movie room sucessfully blacked out

Decided to add some stone walls:

The wifes design pallet


It was a long wait on the cabinets, but they started to roll in.



Tin/copper ceiling was tricky

Then added more stone and more tin:



Then the big wait was for the counter tops.  So we finished a bunch of the other stuff



Finally the tops came in so we could finish the back-bar....more stone and cabinets.  Haha




Movie room got furnished

Appliances

Crown to finish off the ceiling

Finish work on the stairs

Then....the coolest part.  We unpackaged everything we had been storing for 7 years from our old house.

Got it all organized.  Installed my lights and shelves in the towers.


We are still working on some things.  Decorations.  I want to build a bar sign for between the 2 towers.  It was a fun/stressful/rewarding/expensive project.

Very Nice E34
https://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/cto/d/wheeling-1989-bmw-535i-automatic-clean/7259665805.html

100% same page.
bright side is getting home projects done that i thought were 10+ years down the line
when this shit is over, open bar at my place!