New Design. Need Some Input...

So I decided not to go with the full room in the back of the house... Its just going to be too hard with family and all knowing that there's a room there.

Whoever lived here before us built some crazy ass entertainment center into the wall, which Im thinking might make a good closet sized area for growing. Take a look at the pics and let me know what you all think.

I have a 400w hps light, fans for intake and exhaust, and air filter. I'm not sure Im ready to step into the hydro world yet, so this will be set up as a soil grow.

The two pics with white-ish walls are from the inside of the room, and the other pics are from the garage side of that same "entertainment center". The space alltogether is about seven feet tall, 58" wide, and 22" deep.

Thoughts/Ideas??

So you plan on vegging on the bottom and flowering on the top?

Hey shcmidty, welcome to the forum. Since you already have a whole into the garage whoch more than likely does not have aheader above it, you can discover this 'fact and build it right and better. The distance from the top of that unit to the ceiling would be ideal for your ventilation system. You decided to build it four foot deep instead of 22" cause thats the way stud walls work out and in order to get a header over it you kinda had to tear it all out and start over anyway?? While yopu were at it you deciced to really sel it up good putting styrofaom insulation on the garage side and good insultaion on the inside walls and this white plastic on the inside will serve as a vapor barrier and wind block if its done right. Get my drift?? VV

I was thinking of growing three plants at a time, similar to the one plant I have going now... Its roughly 40" tall, so I could do three of these in similar size pots in this space... Veg, flower and harvest enough to last me long enough until the next three are ready to roll.

At this point, I'm not going to clone any of these plants. I have some other seeds that I would like to make a mother out of and then start cloning off of her. Those are actually germinating now, so Im hoping to have this done within the next couple weeks.

Vic,

I get your drift... I'm not opposed to tearing it out and rebuilding it, but I'm hoping to make something out of what I have... If you know what I mean. This is going to need to have somewhat of a stealth look to it, as I do have the occasional guest in the home that does not know about our habits.

With that said, I would prefer not to rebuild whats already there. So any input on how to improve what I have would be great.

That space looks good. What will you do for ventilation? Hydro is not that hard, actually eaier thatn soil I think.

Im thinking that once I clear those shelves out of the space, that I'll punch a hole in the top of the area and bottom of the area for ventilation tubes... I can run the exhaust right into the attic, and the intake can come from the outter wall of the garage.

Ya the garage sounds good. That is where I vent out cause we smoke in our garage and the door is always cracked open.

better do some research about what can happen if you exhaust that air into the attic. I'm not going to write it all again. Its not a good idea. VV

Yeah, I was thinking about that last night... It looks like my best option is going to be running to the outter wall of the garage for intake and exhause. That way its pumping fresh air in and old air right outside.

that looks pretty cool.. almost like someone did the hard work for you..
i think if you put some doors on the front.. or drywall off the front and put doors on the back... you could keep all of your stuff in there (supplies and plants)
why not drop a big fish tank in the spot.. and do hydroponics on top of it..
i knew a guy who did a hydroponic lettice thing with talapia down below.. the fish food fed the fish.. the fish poo fed the plants.. and the plants well im sure you get the picture.. and you would only have to explain why you have some stringy roots haning into your "prize" coi tank lol...
that sounds like more than you want...
keep us posted.. this looks cool

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Looks like a cool little grow area.. Keep us updated..

Going to start working on it this weekend. I'll keep pics of the whole process, and update as I go.

At this point, the only real design question I have left is where the access to this space will be and how will it look. Im thinking of just doing some "as hidden as possible" type doors in the dry wall, and then using a 6ft bookcase to cover up any noticable breaks in the wall. Other than than, I'm left with going to the garage side and tearing out the backside for doors or some sort of slide in paneling...

We'll see... I need to have it figured out soon! haha

I'll have to post some more pics when I get home from work tonight...

I managed to tear out all of the shelves, or what you might have called shelves. It was a serious DIY job. So, now that all of that's been torn out, Im going to go through and seal up all the corners and whatnot. Then I'll be working on setting up intake and exhaust with two CPU fans from server racks. I plugged them in yesterday, and neither seemed to send out too much noise while delivering a pretty good air current. I'll be putting a carbon filter on the exterior, which will run out into the garage.

Anyhow, I'll throw up some fresh snapshots later today of the gutted area, and keep updating as I go.

So, everything has been gutted. For some reason there was already a hole in the side of the area... I'm seriously wondering what they did with this little closet before we moved in. I put my intake fan into that hole, and created another hole on top for exhaust. You can see that both fans are in place, as well as the carbon filter on top (seen from the garage side).

What I'm still seriously hung up on is how to conceal the whole area, while still creating easy access... When looking at the strait on pic, I would like the "doors" or whatever it might be to be right there. Any ideas??

Other than that, I should have the mylar here within another day or two, and Once I get that access covered up, I'll move the light and plants over.

You get handled vent in the garage.if you had a exhaust fan in the attic that vent outside you could vent into the attic.The attic is cooler and the house is cooler to for the attic fan.Fan blows out at the end vent of the house.works great for me.You got a carbon filter so no worry about smell. looks good keep us posted.PEACE

Tokecrazy said:

You get handled vent in the garage.if you had a exhaust fan in the attic that vent outside you could vent into the attic.The attic is cooler and the house is cooler to for the attic fan.Fan blows out at the end vent of the house.works great for me.You got a carbon filter so no worry about smell. looks good keep us posted.PEACE

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Ive run them to air vent connection with a bathroom ventilation fan. resulted in me having to take out the usage of the vent in that bathroom but it was a guest bathroom anyways. lol i made a bit of a weirder carbon filter with a wide spring and a filter folded zigzag through it and fit flushly in airduct. no gawky barrel with black crap on it...........