Help me turn my new garage into a bike lounge (just don't call it a fucking mancave)

Nice score on the cladding, the best price is free.
(If you store them flat on some battens to keep them off the ground it’ll help to stop them bowing, bending and twisting.)

At what stage do I get the electrician back in

This is going to sound like a lame answer but ask your electrician when they want to come in to make their job easy and minimise the amount of making good needed for all the work you've just completed

Will do. Nice one

Would this stuff work as damp membrane as well as being added insulation?

https://www.wickes.co.uk/ThermaWrap-General-Purpose-Foil-Wrap-Insulation---1000mm-x-7m/p/145707

How the outside is coming along.

Bike stand with a little adjustments station. (Just testing the position at the mo).

It's just occurred to me that if I make all the shelving in the bike store removable and hang some curtain rails at the top. I can turn it into a spray booth which is very handy. I find myself painting things fairly frequently.

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Nice! Like the outside work stand.
(You may wish to edit the pic to remove your address though:))

Cheers. Edited

Outside is coming on.

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I'm really sorry but i don't understand the concept behind this.
You had a massive airy space and have built a room wall /door /window /side bit ?
Why not just replace the original door with something more insulated where you don't lose any space?
I must be missing something so not a negative comment just confused !

I know it's an odd use of the space, but here's what led me down the path I chose.

*My wife wouldn't countenance any visible changes to the house. (With door closed.)

*Didn't want to remove garage roller door. (Every other house on our street has one and dodnt want to do anything that raises too many eye brows)

• But did want insulation. Had to remove the asbestos which meant house jas been freezing!
  
  

*if we move I can rip out a stud wall no problem

*I wanted the inside to be a clean space. More lounge than garage. It's basically a big space for me to chill in, play guitar and tinker with posh bikes.

*I wanted somewhere covered to work on bikes that were dirty (pre / post ride stuff). Hence front bit

• I wanted separate storage for daily drivers and shit bikes + storage for tools and other stuff - that bike storage is a tually bigger than it looks so it will be a mini DIY station too. Walls will have french cleats so all modular

• I wanted to be able to work in there with a door open, but not the whole garage door.

• Added layer (literally) of security

This is how it ended up. Right or wrong. I reckon it's going to tick all my boxes

I got home in the rain last night, cleaned bike in garden, lubed it up in the front stand and slotted it into the bike store and it all work nicely.

Oh and the amount of space lost behind the door is very minimal. In fact I'd argue that it's now more usable as I can hang things off the wall on both sides and have a little wfh wall mounted bench under the window

I dig it

Thanks makes more sense now, like I said not a criticism but just thinking out loud ‘🤓

Criticise away. It was good to rationalise things.

Just scored a load of internal cladding which will do at least one internal wall in a 70s kitchen vibe.

Only trouble is, it's still attached to someone else's kitchen ceiling. So thats my weekend plans cancelled.

Looks good though

All this is now down and sat in my garage

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It's touch and go. But I reckon I've got enough reclaimed cladding to the whole wall. By 1 full board!

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Had enough. Just!

I also still have all my fingers despite using the table saw

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Strong Wayne's World basement vibes going on here

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Party time, excellent.

Will still make a sofa but Facebook free has been good to me over the last couple of weeks.

Sofa and mirror

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Have had no time of late. But got in there over the weekend and finally made a cheap wood frame for the window (now matches exterior) and popped the bottom upvc bead in (it was being a stubborn bastard!)

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that mirror is lovely.

Slow progress, as always. But workbench is in. Using crates as drawers because they are cheap and replaceable. Will fit runner's for them this week.

Plus will make some drawers for either side of where I sit/stand.

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Nice! 2 years on, has the kitchen overtaken this project or are you still in the lead..?