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Garage to Home Office

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Hey guys and gals,

Ok So I have been thinking alot lately, My Fiance and myself recently bought a home bout 8 months ago, its a good starter home, its really nothing more than we need. its about 1300 sq ft. 3Bed, 2Bath Nice back yard for my 2 pups :D, We are using one of the rooms for our Home Office right now, its a normal smaller room bout 10x10, I have been mulling over the idea of making part of the garage into a Homeoffice, we have a small laundry room that leads into the garage and thats where I was thinking of connecting it at, then a door into the rest of the garage. I do a lot of PC repair so doing this would give me a bit more room to work then what we have now in here (have my server/and were I hook up pc's on one of those Metal racks with the metal shelving on it. Anyways not to get off track, any of yall have any experience with doing this or opions on it, or maybe even shots of your own rebuilds/remodels. As of right now we both park are cars outside, and are garage is supposed to be a "2 car" garage but unless both cars are mini coups no way are you going to fit to cars in their safely (ive tried i had to crawl out the sun roof lol). So just thought I would come up here and ask yous guys for some advice :) thanks.

TL ; DR : Garage to Home office Thoughts :D
 
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Is the garage fully finished as in insulated and has dry wall up, cause lets face it in the garage you will get the full range of temps, from hotter than hades and to colder than the south pole. The second biggest thing would be how you would plan everything out as in desks here, there and other there, etc also onto storage of spare parts and tools. Maybe it's just be but I am OCD when it comes to my tool storage maybe thats cause I have two full sized tool cabinets (one is mine and the other is my old mans.) but when it comes down to my things and things that I use, it has to be fully organized and labeled.... Also creating some workspace workbenches is a great thing as well, something that will pay off later on.
 
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Well I would most likely be building another wall in there, and insulating everything, pretty much it would be like a room in the house.
 

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