When we bought our house about 10 years ago, One of my many plans was to create a space for me to have a model railway. The garage was earmarked for conversion to a room for that purpose. Finally after years of inaction due to life, IVF, My Wifes cancer and just plain lack of money, I am about a month off
having one. The house came with a "double" Garage but we never once put the car in it! Instead, it was used as a sort of storage shed/dumping ground for anything that didn't fit in the house or was not needed anymore. Eventually it just filled with "Stuff" and the trains got pushed back slowly into the "one day" category. That all changed last November when we received a gift that enabled us to afford to finally do something about it. Since then, my nephew and I have been working on it each Saturday and it is very nearly complete.

This is how the Garage looked before work commenced. Those cupboards in the back are the halfway point of the Garage!!

After clearing out 3mt of "Stuff" including the aforementioned cupboards we set up the wall frames to make 3 rooms. The front Half of the Garage will be the train room and the back will be divided into a craft room for my wife (2/3) and a storage room (1/3)!

Another view of the train room under construction. Under all of that stuff in the foreground are cupboards containing my trains. You can also see what will become the storeroom in the back corner

Moving forward a few months and now there is a door and front wall where the tilt door used to be.

From the outside looking at the front of the garage. That large metal framework leaning on the shed was the frame for the tilt door!! The colourbond off the tilt door was used to protect the work during the winter months and later became the side of the chook pen.

One window in and we finally get to move the colourbond and and replace it with small pieces of ply until we get the side windows sorted.

For the side windows, I managed to pick up these 2 panels from a builders yard for $30 each. Just had to get frames made up for them.

Like this! From the inside looking out through one of the completed leadlight windows.

Windows in place and a coat of paint and we're getting closer by the day. Still need to finish off some trims and paint the side windows. The overall idea is to get the feel of an old station office. I think we have it right.

Of course, the view from the inside doesn't feel like a station office! Maybe a nice mural on a wall outside the window?