Tikilyn, You asked earlier if the house would still be "cute" if you turned the garage to face forward. Quite honestly, I think you're going to be really disappointed with your front elevation if you turn the garage toward the front. When you have a three car garage facing the street, the garage doors become a major "design element." Garage doors are just so big that people can't help but notice them. THREE of them (or one double plus a single) are definitely going to change the style of your house completely. Your original design has a sort of European "storybook cottage" effect. The first thing I noticed was the front door, then my eye went to the bay window (love the copper roof over that!) After that I noticed the arched windows and then the two non-matching dormers (one brick, one half-timbered). From there, my eye swooped down along that lovely curved roof line back to ground level and then back to the front door. Lots going on there, especially with the mix of stone and brick. But it all seemed to work. With the garage turned to the front tho, I think the first (and maybe ONLY) thing anyone is going to notice are the garage doors. Even very expensive carriage house garage doors just aren't all that pretty. And three of them are going to overwhelm whatever else you do. There is no way you're going to achieve a storybook cottage look/feel. I'm afraid that instead, you are going to wind up with something that looks like an overgrown big brother to all the "no-particular style" tract houses that are so common in suburban America. Before you go too much further with your redesign, I'd urge you to take a look at the front elevations of as many similarly-sized houses with three front-load garage bays as you can find on the internet. If you can find ANYTHING in a style that you really, really like, then maybe it would make sense to go ahead with your redesign. At least you'll have a syle to shoot for and some understanding of how to incorporate that many garage doors into an elevation and make it work for you. But, if (like me) you discover that you think every 3000-3500 sq ft house you can find that has three front-load garages is just downright ugly... well, you just might want to go back to a side-load garage. Has your DH even mentioned WHY he wants the garage to face forward? If you have a wide enough lot for a side load garage (and apparently you do) I personally can't think of any good reason to give any stranger who happens to be driving down the street when I open my garage, a good look inside at everything stored there.

My sis made something like that for me to hold my junk bedside for the bunkbed I shared as a child.It was great for keeping books(above the bed instead of underneath.) Good score.Sandy

I got one last week at a yard sale for $15.00. Saw one the week before and the guy said he thought his mil wanted $350.00. I told him good luck in selling it.

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