Garage Update

The garage is progressing nicely.

One side is roofed with the other side about to be started, along with that of the back workshop. The weather isn't helping though.

I'm glad we kept the old, oak, front window frame from when we replaced it in the spare bedroom (AirBnB) with a door. That will go at the back end of the workshop and exactly match the one at the back of the bedroom. 

I'm currently planning a late addition of a couple of oak uprights either side of the garage entrance, with a couple of oak braces as embellishments in each top corner. I suppose a large baulk of pine would suffice, but it wouldn't last as long as oak. Also pine may not weather the same as the oak cladding, which is what the house is covered with and what the garage exterior walls will be clad with.

They will look something like this (without the stone pediments):

However, I'm toying with the idea of curved brackets, although they're about £60 each. 

The brackets are meant to be morticed in during construction, but that can't be done as an afterthought, so screws will have to suffice on at least one end of each bracket.

I'm planning to have 4 strip lights in the ceiling and another 4 mounted along the long sides, the latter being to aid visibility when spraying paint. I'd love to put a full, Olympian spray booth and oven in, but the cost would be prohibitive. 

That said, you can get them 2nd hand for about £5-6k and blow-up spray booths are only between £300-400. Still, I can get a 3rd party spray job for a lot less than an Olympian and I may only do the one spray job.