Getting ready to build a shop- first time in many decades I have done so- perusing this forum for ideas.

my best advice is that one of the worst things that happen in a garage is that they become damned near unusable if you don't have somewhere else to store what you aren't working on now. I have found that the easy way to do that is that it doesn't cost that much to raise the roof higher and either build a half story section to store parts, or hang heavy duty platforms from the rafters to do the same thing. Here's some pics of my current shop

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You are exactly right there- this is something I also learned from experience. So I am bulding an entire 8x40 room on top of the container for storage/AC mancave . I it also will be de-humidified up there, so parts that I don't want corroding will go up there. Nice shop BTW.