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Justin Fink and Chuck Bickford thinking about a door

Daniel Morrison, Executive editor, Fine Homebuilding & Green Building Advisor

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At Fine Homebuilding's first project house, this is the front of the garage that we are converting to warm, livable shop space.

One carriage door (built by Justin Fink) is installed, the other is inside the shop leaning against a wall.

Daniel Morrison

Looks like they got the first carriage door to fit.

It, and its twin will replace a 12 foot overhead door.

At Fine Homebuilding's first project house, this is the front of the garage that we are converting to warm, livable shop space.

One carriage door (built by Justin Fink) is installed, the other is inside the shop leaning against a wall.

Photo: Daniel Morrison

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The first project at the Fine Homebuilding project house: Convert a garage into a warm and workable shop.

The front facade was designed by Chuck Miller and executed by Chris Green and Kevin Ireton.

We removed the double-wide overhead door and reduced the size of the opening, adding the windows and carriage door(s).

Justin built these carriage doors in the woodshop. Look for the weekly Wrap-up video shot in the Fine Woodworking woodshop to see the construction process.

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Comments (2)

mpsd03 writes: These look great guys! Great job and great tip about the glass! One question...in the magazine it says that the existing r/o was 8'x 12' but the photo above is saying 8'x12'. Anyways, what was the total width of the finished door?
Posted: 5:52 pm on April 4th

hfhcarp writes: Beautiful doors; definitely worth the effort. Nice job! Man, I wish I had a dedicated shop instead of my two-car garage, which serves as temporary shop all spring and summer. Come winter in Michigan, tools recede to corners and cars replace wood shop. Can't wait for spring.
Regards,
Bob
Posted: 5:18 pm on March 1st

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