While not out driving or wrenching, I build things in the man cave. Garage bar for when friends come over to work on their jeep or mine, needed a desk for my office, had some old Willys tailgates layin around, so BOOM, a jeep themed desk
The bar is in the garage/work shop/my area. That avatar pic is actually the back of my 30" deep garage. The desk is in "our" office as that is all that bedroom is used for. So yeah, she doesn't mind it. Saw a pic of an old military jeep front end used as a tv stand in a living room on Pinterest and showed that to her. Probably not going to happen. Would like to build an outdoor barbeque with an old front end though. Raise the hood to get to the grill.