Garage Mahal Construction
Our Warehouse Gets A Hollywood Makeover
HOT ROD magazine is staffed by guys who really do work on cars. Much of the time, we wrench in our own garages and sometimes on the street when we have no place else to go. Thanks to the relocation of our office to a nice, big building with a decent-size warehouse, we now have a spot to thrash on projects that is arguably too nice for us to abuse. This is because the folks from the television show Garage Mahal, including host Bill Goldberg, transformed our plain warehouse into a shop fit for a fabricating king.
Over the course of five days, lead designer Jaime Dietenhofer and the crew installed new cabinets, flooring, toolboxes, hydraulic lifts, tools, and a totally unnecessary but cool nonetheless lounge area, complete with flat-screen televisions and a bar. It gets more outrageous: Famed painter Mike Lavallee and Bodie Stroud of BS Industries were on hand to lend their talents to the project so none of the additions were installed in stock form. In the end, the warehouse became a real shop, albeit one that's nicer than we really deserve, and we're waiting to blast the first staffer from one of the other magazines to christen the floor with ATF before we break in the shop properly with one of our own projects.
If you'd like an even better look at our new digs, tune in to the DIY Network at 8:30 p.m. Eastern December 17, 2010.
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