My wife and I recently spent a year looking for our new home in the Pioneer Valley area of central Massachusetts. One of the items on our wish list was a garage for my new woodshop. Driving to house-hunting appointments, we noticed that a few of the older garages still had their original swing-out carriage doors, and we thought they looked far better than modern overhead doors. We knew that if we found a house with a suitable garage, we would replace the ubiquitous roll-up doors with traditional swing-outs. We found just such a place, and when we moved into our new home, I got started planning the transformation of the two-car garage into my woodshop. Once I had decided the tool, electrical, and dust-collection layouts, I turned my attention to the design of the front facade and the new doors.
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