BeesNest Productions

So, as some of you know already, my family recently relocated to Seattle from Tacoma. I’d been commuting up here for my (now not so) new job for about 8 or 9 months before we finally made the leap. I’ll spare you the gory details of trying to simultaneously buy & sell in the current real estate market, but suffice it to say that the deed is done, we’re moved into our new place and loving it.

However….

There’s the small matter of the *ahem* garage (I mean, rickety shack at the end of our driveway that purports to be a garage while looking as though it may collapse at any second). The roof is moss-encrusted, the truss supports are, well, missing, and the front door is pretty much rotting from the ground up. It is, to say the least, in need of some MAJOR attention. The good news is that our new neighbor, who just happens to be a contractor, is in the midst of his own remodeling project and has offered to help rebuild ours as part of the process. We’ll pay him of course, and no doubt the renovation of our eye-sore of a backyard blemish will only help to improve value of his place too.

The question now is, what to build? He and I chatted a bit this morning and are coming to the conclusion that it would probably be easier and more efficient to actually just level the existing structure and start over. This of course means I have to know what I want before we start. Part of me just wants to go for full-on, no apologies studio / rehearsal space (parking be damned, that’s what the driveway is for) but I’m also aware of the need for practicality. Storage is probably a good idea, as is some type of work area. And, heaven forbid I have to start thinking about it already, but we may need to in fact SELL the place one of these days and a bona-fide 2 car garage is gonna serve us a lot better than middle-aged musician’s weekend warrior music studio.

So, what do you think? If you were rebuilding a detached 2 car garage from the ground up, what would YOU do with it?

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