I can see something like this for a shop

[reible]

This is a building which seems to be part of the Church next door. What interested me was all the garage doors. Since I like to work in the fresh air this would almost be ideal. If we lived in a place with a more stable temperature anyway.

On one side a garage door and regular door.

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Along one side, count them, three garage doors.

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And then the other end with a double garage door and a regular door.

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Some day I'd like to see what the other side looks like, for me I'd have no doors or windows on that side. But what access! What fresh air and in most cases even in a rain storm you could have doors open. But then there is cold winter days, hot summer days when the doors would be less attractive.

Doesn't mater I can afford it and the city wouldn't allow it, ah the zoning laws.........

Well I can dream anyway.

Ed

[rpd]

Odd positioning for garage doors, I wonder if it was originally built as a stable?

[everettdavis]

Outside kitchen with tables, youth pavilion something like that perhaps

Everett

[reible]

Odd positioning for garage doors, I wonder if it was originally built as a stable?

I think it is new, a utility building for the church. I'm guessing here but they could host events there, outdoor potlucks etc, maybe????

Ed

[Gene Howe]

Looks to be about 1500 sq. ft. Decent shop size. Nice high ceiling and a decent attic. Plenty of room up there for lumber. Though, at my age, I'd rather have it on the floor.
With the 5 big doors open, just think of the light and fresh air. Yep, a great shop.

[dusty]

This is a building which seems to be part of the Church next door. What interested me was all the garage doors. Since I like to work in the fresh air this would almost be ideal. If we lived in a place with a more stable temperature anyway.

On one side a garage door and regular door.

20170404_143115_1491971339583_resized.jpg

Along one side, count them, three garage doors.

20170404_143221_1491971338955_resized.jpg

And then the other end with a double garage door and a regular door.

20170404_143246_1491971337909_resized.jpg

Some day I'd like to see what the other side looks like, for me I'd have no doors or windows on that side. But what access! What fresh air and in most cases even in a rain storm you could have doors open. But then there is cold winter days, hot summer days when the doors would be less attractive.

Doesn't mater I can afford it and the city wouldn't allow it, ah the zoning laws.........

Well I can dream anyway.

Ed

Yeah, that would be nice.

Odd positioning for garage doors, I wonder if it was originally built as a stable?

I think it is new, a utility building for the church. I'm guessing here but they could host events there, outdoor potlucks etc, maybe????

Ed

It does not seem like a "garage". Four of the doors have no driveway. It does seem like an ideal build ing a shop.

[robinson46176]

*I think it is closer to 1,000, sq. ft... Those side doors look more like 8' doors than the now common 9' ones. Churches here with the space are putting in shelter houses about that size often with a small kitchen boxed in at one end. A shelter with overhead doors would be the next step.
*Like Ed I do love working outside in nice weather but then again I don't tolerate cold or heat extremes as well I used to. As a lifetime farmer "outside" was my life but I keep getting older, lazier and more temperature / comfort sensitive.
*I would suspect that there is no attic in that building but it could be added. For a woodshop a "loading" door in the center of the gable would be nice for backing a pickup up to and standing in the bed to move wood in or out.
*The old blacksmith's used to work inside in bad weather but mostly moved outside under a shade tree each spring. I do most of my welding / cutting outside at the farm shop when ever I can, it's just safer and I am in less smoke. I do have a shade tree there.
*I love my basement shop, especially the year-round 24-7 tee shirt temps and just steps away but I do miss having an overhead door in one wall to open up on a nice day. Since it is pretty much 24-7 Heat / AC I can't really open even the walk door and leave it open half a day very much. Having a walk door that is half window does help a lot and I am seriously considering replacing it with a glass patio door.
*One nearby Amish community has converted a one time huge long high production chicken house to a community building where among other things they host large fund raising dinners. They stripped it all out, pressure-washed every thing and insulated the whole thing with that tough spray on foam insulation. That part of the building is maybe 26' x 100'. Talk about a potential woodshop. The other half is not insulated but is used during their twice a year huge fund-raising consignment auctions. The rest of the time that half is used as storage. The auctions are how they fund their schools. Some of the dinners go to school funding but some are held to help members of the community that have big medical bills etc. We love the dinners and try to watch the local town's website for them. For the auctions we are on their mailing list.

[Hobbyman2]

That would work!!

My dream shop would be a 40 x 60 heated cooled pole barn with a full size up stairs wired for 220 and run on solar power complete with a log mover and a saw mill in the middle of a hard wood forest :}

[garys]

For my climate, it has far too many doors. In winter it would be too cold to work in and in summer it would be too hot to work in. I have a well insulated 1150 sq ft garage with only two garage doors and a small walk in door. Even well insulated, it doesn't make sense to try to use it as a woodworking shop in extreme weather because of the cost to heat and cool.
Instead, I have my woodworking shop in the basement of my house where it is already heated and comfortable. A comfortable smaller space beats a large uncomfortable space every day.

[ERLover]

Roofing shingles sure seem an odd pattern. Too many doors for heating in your IL winters.