My itinerant military lifestyle finally overcame my ability to stash cars in random places and exploit favors for long term car storage. I needed some kind of facility where I could leave vehicles in a temperature controlled environment, not worry about their security, and not have to pay continual storage costs. I had heard about garage condos from checking out Garage Journal over the years and thought this might be the solution for me. I’m from Seattle but I probably won’t be settling there eventually. In that context, I kind of needed something centrally located from a continental standpoint (I live in NOVA after all) and my wife is from Illinois. As it turned out, the nicest garage condo facility I could find is located in Naperville, Illinois.
So today I closed on a 33x55 unit with a 600 sq fit mezzanine and a 600 sq ft third floor. They’re not residential technically but some people actually live out of them -and almost everyone has kitchens etc because they end up getting used mainly as car-storage second homes and big party spaces. I’ll be in the minority of people actually working on cars.
I’ve got big plans for the build-out along the theme of “mind the gap” but I’ll let that explain itself as we go along. Sadly I won’t be doing much if any of the work myself since I’m several hundred miles away, but I will endeavor to keep picture updates coming.
So today I closed on a 33x55 unit with a 600 sq fit mezzanine and a 600 sq ft third floor. They’re not residential technically but some people actually live out of them -and almost everyone has kitchens etc because they end up getting used mainly as car-storage second homes and big party spaces. I’ll be in the minority of people actually working on cars.
I’ve got big plans for the build-out along the theme of “mind the gap” but I’ll let that explain itself as we go along. Sadly I won’t be doing much if any of the work myself since I’m several hundred miles away, but I will endeavor to keep picture updates coming.
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