Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage

Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage
by Bill West CRS

Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage
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Book Summary Information

Author: Bill West CRS
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-01
ISBN: 0967587506
Number of pages: 183
Publisher: Paragon Garage Company, Ltd.

Book Reviews of Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage

Book Review: Useless. Nothing but a pack of Product Reviews
Summary: 1 Stars

(...) Looking for help in organizing my 2-car integrated garage for use as a working automotive shop, I found this book nearly useless for anything remotely connected to design, layout, work flow, functionality, efficiency, automotive equipment,
energy and utilities requirements, etc.

If you're looking for one guy's personal "I tried this product, and it's good!" This may be the book for you.

But you don't need to buy it.

(...)

Do I really need to know that StoreWALL come with zinc plated, rust resistant screws" in 1-5/8" and 2-1/4" lengths?

The first quarter of the book centers around the author's "Nine Objectives for a Functional & Organized Garage". It lists such
mind-blowing concepts such as:

"When in doubt, throw it out"

"If it's on the floor, it's time to store"

Is he kidding me?

If I wanted to do a "Clean Sweep" show and get rid or everything I want to organize, store and find, Yeah, sure, I could buy one of the featured $2,000 "wall systems" to house two pairs of skis.

No kidding. If you have nothing to store, organizing life becomes so simple. But would you spend for melamine cabintry for holding and hiding next to nothing?

The middle, and bulk of the book is product-by-category reviews. OK, so I learned there are two "environmental friendly, water-based" epoxy floor coating alternatives to the highly regarded (and less expensive) U-Coat-It epoxy.

The last third of the book is cheap fluff about Feng Shui-ing you garage, the history of garages (who cares?), famous garages (Apple Computer was started in a garage. Big deal -- so is my race car!), and West's sure-to-be-famous: "My 2020 Vision of the Garage for the Future"

(Hint: It's going to take on more importance in the minds of the future-family)

The book's best feature is its photographs. (Showing space after space of glittering slat-wall and shiney cabinetry -- all holding next to nothing. Of course, THAT will look neat and tidy). You might glean a couple of storage product ideas you didn't know about before hand.

Tell me where to place my 20-gallon parts washer, plumb the space for shop air, which floor coating stands up best to my heavy floor jack rolling across it.

(...)

Now I want to get back my common "Cents".

Summary of Your Garagenous Zone: Innovative Ideas for the Garage

Not simply a storage unit or holding space for cars, the garage is reconceived in this innovative design book as a "flex" space for family members that can be clean, organized, and functional (and still house cars). Wall organizers, garage cabinets, and an ergonomically designed workbench are among the suggestions described and illustrated through a case study of how one family reinvented their garage from wall to wall and floor to ceiling. Creative ideas for making the garage into a multipurpose room include placing a television on a wall swivel and moving the treadmill into the garage to create a family gym. Feng shui tips, an overview of garage-design trends over the past 100 years, and speculations about how garages will look in the year 2020 provide a revealing perspective on the importance of transforming the dark, dingy cavern in American homes into a bright, desirable living space.

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