Andy,

That's looking really cool! Looks like you went with a pretty tall ceiling in the man cave. If I could remember how to post pictures, I'd share some from my project. I just used 9' studs for my garage wall, as I'm not planning to park an RV or work on exceptionally large projects.

I must be too old for 100 hour weeks. Your project is passing me up. I just finished my garage framing; the roof is on, but no siding yet. The framing contractor just got the house roof sheeted last Friday, and they're finishing some inside stuff and framing the deck this week. The shingles were loaded on the house roof yesterday, and roofers are supposed to be shingling today.

I'm amazed at how fast the house framing has gone, but a professional crew goes a lot faster than me putting in evenings and weekends on the garage. Nonetheless, I'm employing the same philosophy as you that I need that garage and shop space for all the finish and trim work I plan on doing myself. I'm going to buy a small bench planer so I can mill the cedar I've had air drying since July. I'm going to panel my living room ceiling with that. I'm gonna' have to buy a bunch of T&G for soffeting the porch and deck areas tho.

Did you rent scaffolding? I've been using scaffolding for so long, I just built some with framing lumber along the sides of my garage. Then I built a 4x4x8 mobile scaffold that I first used to raise the attic trusses over the garage, and then moved it outside to work on the gable end framing, which I just finished Sunday.

Construction projects are fun and exciting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Sg