Featured Spaces – Page 3 – The Garage Journal

You know how threads in the Garage Gallery start out as build threads and then, over time, sort of morph into daily blogs of sorts? I love that… and recently, I’ve fallen into the rabbit hole at the Pie Factory. “When graduating from college, my dream home was a barn with a small loft apartment above a workshop, a wood stove, an old truck, a dog, and blond twin girlfriends. Probably in Vermont. I’ve struck out on the barn, the twins, the dog, and the green mountain state. Wood stoves are banned unless grandfathered in in San Francisco. Someday I …

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I haven’t browsed the shop gallery in quite some time and decided to rectify that negligence this morning. And my first stop was a damned good one. “Made By Miller” has a tiny shop space in South Dakota dedicated to efficiently handle a single focused discipline – welding and fabrication. I mean, my guy has built thousands of off-road bumpers in this space… and it’s just really cool to see how he does this seemingly without limitations. Take your time and go through this thread. You’ll be glad ya did…

I have a strange relationship with YouTube. If you looked at my viewing time, you’d guess I was some sort of power user. But, in reality I rarely actually watch what is playing. See rather than elevator music, I play YouTube on a monitor in my office almost constantly. Occasionally something catches my interest, I turn up the volume, and I loose a few minutes of productivity. But usually… Well, it’s just static… Anyway, recently I caught a glimpse of some guy working on a Porsche in his shop and decided to tune in. I lost more than a few …

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If you know me, you know this project is right up my alley – nothing beats modern design with an old world way of thinking… It’s gonna be very fun to keep an eye on this one and see where it goes. If interested, follow along here.