Been in this garage for 15 years, here’s 6 of em, I fit 8 in during winter

The garage has gone through few organizational changes but never one to make it look nicer, just where stuff sat
But once I finished building my car, decided to make the back part a home gym and the front for the bird

Thermafiber walls, fiberglass ceiling on one of the hottest days of the year.

Hi,

I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up my garage for basic DIY work on my cars.

The garage is about 3 m wide, 6 m long and 2.8 m high(im from europe) — roughly 10 × 20 ft with a 9.2 ft ceiling.

The length is fine, but at only 3 metres wide there obviously isn’t much space around the car. At the back of the garage I have some room for tools, storage and a small work area, but I don’t want to fill it with cabinets and benches and then realise I’ve made the garage too cramped to actually work in.

I don’t need it to be a complete workshop. I have a large driveway, so jobs where I need access all around the car can be done outside. The garage would mainly be for working under the bonnet, doing smaller repairs, oil changes and working underneath the car. It would also be useful for jobs that take more than one day, so I don’t have to leave everything outside.

My current plan is to use a low-profile trolley jack, probably something like a JCB TH33013, and support the car on either two or four JCB TH56002A jack stands, depending on the job.

What I’m mostly looking for are ideas on how to make the limited space work as well as possible.
Does anyone here regularly work on cars in a garage of a similar size? I’d be interested to see your setup and hear about any clever solutions, things that work well, or mistakes I should avoid.

I’m not trying to build a perfect showroom garage. I just want it to be organised, safe and comfortable enough for basic car work.

For now its little mess, I just bought the house