For most of the crew here...
In 01 my wife said. What are you going to do with all your time. I said I dunno. She said, why don't you go ahead and build a shop out back, so you have a place to hang out and to work on your old cars ? God I love that woman !! LOL
Now THAT's freakin' COOL!
I have a I did something similar. But not at home. I purchased an old auto shop down in Florida. We have a condo in Bradenton Beach. so I purchased a building in the town of Bradenton. It's a building that had 8 service bays, with two 12'x12l doors at each end.
I divided the building in half front to back, and now have a 4 bay shop for my Dart, and to service my cars and trucks, and a the other side of the new wall is my wood working shop.
There is an office that is common to both shops at the beck end of the building and I converted the men's room into a toilet and shower, and the ladies room into a kitchen/break room.
There is also a 4 room apartment above the wood shop side of the building that I'm presently in the process of creating a media room out out of the existing living room, and another room, one of the two bed rooms, will be for my model railroading stuff.
The kitchen is being converted into more of a lounge, and the second bedroom will remain a bedroom. It also has a full bath.
The reason I didn't do that in Georgia, is because sooner or later, I'm going to get tired of cutting the grass at my house in Georgia, and opt for Condo life on the beach in Florida, and my "shop" will be a 10 minute drive from the beach. ;)
