Garage Setups
For builders

You did the work.
Document it once, properly.

This is the page you end up with: your photographs, your dimensions and your own account of the build, with your name on it and a discussion underneath. Costs and products are yours to add if you want them — publishing does not wait for either.

Create your accountSee a finished setup

Founding setups are the examples the members who come after learn the format from.

The first 1,000

Nobody has published a garage here yet, so all 1,000 founding positions are open. The first 1,000 people to publish a real garage keep a permanent founding number on their profile.

  • — Any real garage qualifies. Ordinary, unfinished and inexpensive ones count; there is no spend, size or finish requirement.
  • — It needs the same things any published setup needs, plus one photograph of the garage.
  • — The number is yours permanently while your account is in good standing. Editing, updating or briefly unpublishing does not affect it.
  • — It is not a ranking, a rating or an endorsement — only a record of who was here first.
  • — If you delete your account the number retires with it. It is never given to somebody else.
What your setup page looks likeOpen the full example
A two-bay woodworking shop with a table saw on a mobile base, light maple wall cabinets, an assembly bench and grey overhead dust ducting running to the ceiling.
Concept garage
Woodworking shop

Detached two-bay woodworking shop

Dust collection run in the ceiling, a folding outfeed bench and cabinets along the long wall so the floor stays clear for sheet goods.

Footprint
24 × 24 ft
Area
576 sq ft
Budget
$12.4K
Products
8 products
Create a garage like this

See the full setup

  • Your name on it. Attributed to your profile, linked from every setup you publish.
  • A discussion underneath. Questions go on the page itself, and your replies carry a Builder badge.
  • Private to save. A signed-in member can save your setup to come back to. You are never told who.
  • Yours to change. Add stages and updates whenever the garage changes.
Why bother

What you get out of it

  • One link instead of twenty replies

    When someone asks what those cabinets are or what the epoxy cost, you send one URL that has the model numbers and the receipts.

  • Filed by size, use and layout

    A published setup is indexed on its dimensions, its primary use and its configuration, so a 22 × 20 attached garage can be looked up as one. A forum thread cannot be.

  • It grows with the space

    Add updates as you finish them. A setup is a living record, not a post that scrolls away.

The process

Three steps to a published setup

Your draft saves as you go. Nothing is public until the last step.

  1. 01

    Add your photos

    Start with the garage. Location data is stripped in your browser before upload.

  2. 02

    Add the useful details

    Dimensions, what it is for, and whatever else you want to share. Your draft saves as you go.

  3. 03

    Preview and publish

    See exactly what other people will see, then make it public when you are ready.

What you need to have to hand

  • A photograph of the garage
  • A title
  • What it is mainly for
  • Width and depth
  • A sentence or two about it

That is the whole list. Costs, products, the layout, the timeline and what you learned are all optional, and you can add them after publishing — or never.

Your garage, your content

It stays yours — unpublish or delete it whenever you like. No street addresses, ever. Photo location data is stripped in your browser before upload.

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