WOW! You gals rock!!! Gee, I post before I go to bed, get up and look at all this AWESOME advice!!! I can't thank you all enough for all your wisdom and heartfelt suggestions. WOW! I'm just in awe! Thank you, thank you! Wait til I show hubby all these wonderful ideas, especially the cost saving ones!!
I gotta tell you all too, what's so EXTRA special about hubby taking this task on it that he has a rare type of terminal cancer and wants to do this for me before he's unable to. How's that for love and devotion??? He's the biggest blessing of all in my life! Not the things, not even all my yards of fabric, nor quilting books or patterns, but a loving hubby willing to do something this special for me for a hobby, ahem, lifestyle, that already takes too much of my time away from him. Ya just can't spell love anyway better than that, can ya?
Thanks again for everyone's input. I'll be printing all these off for reference. I'm amazed too, at the variety of replies here too, covering so many different aspects of the planning, right down to the graph paper and consideration of all my needs, too.
We live in a very rural, mountain area, so I don't think codes will be an issue, but may need a permit.
Hugs to all of you,
Karla
P.S. Trust me, you don't want a "before" pic, at least not now, lol. Please, give us a little time to Spring clean, at least a little. I'm so totally embarrassed that we've let the garage get THIS bad, lol! :oops: