Lotus Elan Central

Hello all,

I have not posted much on the forum lately. I am in the process of moving to a new home that is more suitable for the family and the Elan!
It takes up all of my spare time. We will move to a larger house with a garage early September. After this I hope i am more often on the forum (and in the garage) than now

The garage in it's initial shape was too small (well, too narrow to be exact), as it was ony 2.75 meters wide (and 7 meters deep which was OK)
For successful and comfortable tinkering i need some width somewhere in the garage so i have the space to work on the wheels / suspension / steering rack / doors etc. 2.75 meters is just not enough for that.

The problem here is that the garage is an integral section of the house and the LH garage side wall is a construction wall for the rest of the home. My better half agreed to enlarge the garage into the current living room and extend it all the way through the house (really!) which is not easy construction wise. In the construction wall is a hidden column that cannot be removed unfortunately The plan is now to have a steel construction on the open section you see. I want to maximise the living room as well, hence the half round wall as an est ethically pleasant compromise The length is extended till the end at the cost of the living room as well

This is the old situation:



And this is my current design:




So what do you think so far?

Sounds good HJ, You cant beat having a nice bit of garage space to work in (man cave) . Pictures need some tinkering though!.

Yeah... It looks like there is something wrong with tinypic!

Fixed it!

I can't see the pictures at all - is it just me??

dapinky wrote:I can't see the pictures at all - is it just me??

And now?

Id just get a bi-fold door

I will present your artist impression to the missus
By the way, in your lay-out I can only dive into the back-yard and back

HJ2 wrote:

dapinky wrote:I can't see the pictures at all - is it just me??

And now?

Yep-all visible now

Not sure what you are using to make the plans, but I have recently started to use Floorplanner.com for my garage proposals - at least I can visualise it all in 3D, not just plan view - quite helpful when width is a potential issue.

I'm old skool, so using AutoCAD.
No time to learn new tricks at the moment! (but I am tinkering around with solid works

opt 2

Revit is the new AutoCAD made but Autodesk but written by someone who had no experience of AutoCAD whatsoever.......
its so far removed its untrue

Who needs a TV anyway?
That way you would have something cool to look at when in your sofa and when at the dining table!

I actually thought about just leaving the stairs in and moving the 'people' upstairs and having downstairs as the garage........

like this........although you'll have to buy 3 more Elans

I do think he would get bored of blue after a while.........

Do you mean he should add a paint cabin?!

How are you doing with the garage expansion?

joantucker wrote:How are you doing with the garage expansion?

Probably had the back doors smashed in

Any ideas what to do about that

Has HJ's garage got back doors? Matches his car I suppose.