2 car vs 3 car attached garage price
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Comments (10)I've never head anyone say - "We have too much garage space". Garage space is relatively inexpensive compared to sq/ft costs of a home. You don't have to heat it or carpet it or furnish it. The extra cost will be for the extended slab, walls, roof and door. Be careful you don't shrink your garage too much. A Miata is what you have now, but what if you want to buy something else down the road? Remember, too, to allow space to get in, out and walk around your vehicles. It's amazing how big a car becomes once it is in an enclosed space. Especially trucks or SUVs with oversized mirrors. A too small garage can become a daily source of irritation - not to mention the possibility of damaging your cars if you can't open the doors without hitting the wall or another car. If you plan to have a yard, you'll need someplace to store tools and mowers and such as well. Be sure and engineer the trusses/joists above the garage to support the extra weight of your bonus room floor and the storage space....See MoreHelp with Master Suite Over Attached 1 Car Garage Addition
Comments (11)Essentially, you'll have a box of 15x20, right? The bedroom is one is of the 15x part (maybe 15 by 13); and the closet and bath are the other end of the 15x (say 15x7 divided between the 2 spaces). If you do a walk in closet, you don't want it any narrower than 6 feet, but 7 is better (clothes take up 2 feet of space on either side, and you need to be able to walk in.) A lot of times, a reach in closet gives you more hanging room, esp if your closet will be shallow. A 13 foot wide room is wide enough for a king bed with small night stands on either side and nothing else. If you turn the bed on the 15' wall, there is more room to either side, but less at the foot of the bed. (a bed is usually around 7 feet long, so if it is on the short wall, you have lots of room at the foot of the bed.) The best thing to do is draw out your box on graph paper, cut out a few furniture graph papers and arrange them a few ways to see what looks like it will work best for you. Glad you will be using a contractor. Also, as you get bids from contractors, you will learn what can and can't be done (the tie-in to plumbing for the bath will be the trickiest/most expensive part)....See More3rd car garage vs shed
Comments (2)It sounds like much of the decision is a matter of personal preference and I'm not sure anyone can help with that. I think a larger garage would generally be more attractive than a shed but again, that's personal preference. Certainly a partition wall can be added to the garage to provide a separate area for lawn equipment, etc. Price it both ways and see what fits your budget....See Morethoughts on split vs angled 3 car garage?
Comments (45)I have a basement garage. Many, many years ago, DH and I decided that since this was how we always entered our own house, we would make that back driveway area attractive. I can do nothing about the garage itself - it's a garage and must stay as such, but we did add railroad ties and landscaped the area next to the retaining wall/garden gate, and the picket fence on the other side. It's very pretty to drive in back there, even though their are trash cans. They are never over-flowing and always have their lids on so it's a non-issue. My guests always come to my front door and that's how I want it to be. I don't want them coming in through my garage and semi-finished basement! We have both the driveway for parking for guests and a gravel pull-off across the front of the garden - it will hold 2-3 cars. If we hadn't had a large tree in the way, we would have done a circular drive in front, but we were not about to lose that tree. I do have a close friend in St Louis whose house is on a hill and on a large lot. One must drive up the driveway to the top in order to park - lane below far too narrow and it would be a long hike up that driveway if one parked there - no front walk from the street. There is a narrow front walk that goes from the parking area behind their garage around the house to the front door. No one ever goes that way twice, as they nailed the front door closed decades ago as it always blew open in a heavy wind storm! So, one enters from the back driveway/parking area into what was once a breezeway and is now a small room with bookcases and TV on garage wall, and a sofa on the opposite and window seat on the narrow front wall. It leads directly into the world's smallest kitchen or the "nothing room" - a small room that was probably supposed to be the breakfast room but is used pretty much for "nothing". Awkward? Oh yes, but they're such great hosts no one cares at all!...See MoreRelated Professionals
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