Single garage bay turned into a shop.

Original clean out and setup:
http://frederic.midimonkey.com/yard-garage.html

Better Design:
http://frederic.midimonkey.com/yard/garage/garage.htm

My not following the design too closely and what I ended up with:
http://frederic.midimonkey.com/yard-...rkbenches.html

In a nutshell, along one side wall I have 18" deep shelves floor to ceiling made of 2x4's and 1" thick oak plywood that was leftover from when the house was built in 1941 and convienently in storage in the attic and garage. Part of the shelving stores car parts (including engines, transmissions, and a corvette suspension) as well as tools that I haven't made stands for yet like my table saw.

In the center of the two bay garage, I built a 4' high wall down the center, so my workshop is officially one bay rather than two, since my wife wants to put her car in the other bay once I clean that out.

Anyway, enjoy the pictures and writeups. Being organized is a good thing. One thing I will suggest is buy, or make, stands for all your larger tools rather than putting them on workbenches. This way you can wheel them away from the side to the middle of the garage, work with them, and push them back out of the way, leaving your workbenches free for stuff you'd need a workbench for.