Enough room for side entry garage?
Does there appear to be enough room here for our side entry garage?
Drive way can go all the way to the property line.
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Rachel (Zone 7A + wind)
8 years agoAre you allowed to drive on the setback? Is the garage in the back, or the front?
If in the back, yes, but you will have zero landscaping / yard.
If in the front, I don't think you have enough angle to get in.
Which box is the garage?
Two of our neighbors building now are doing a side-entry single story floorplan but the garage is in the front of the house. It's off a front courtyard and looks really nice. The lots are 9600 ft, but wider than deep. I'd bet they are somewhere around 100ft wide and on a straight street.
Rachel (Zone 7A + wind)
8 years agoHere is how both homes are setup to do a side-garage in front... Of course the houses aren't rectangles, and they are gorgeous. One is a single story, the other is 1.5.
Both made the garages look like "house" from the street. Pretty timber-beam entries in red cedar. If you aren't set on your floorplan I could take a picture and post tonight how they are setup from the street.
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Comments (13)Your sketch isn't what I initially had in mind, but it might work. It's obvious disadvantage is that it places the bulk of one leg of your house directly adjacent to the lot-line house of your neighbor. The result would be 5' "tunnel" between the two houses. If you don't care about that or your neighbor's reactions, this idea might be worth pursuing. What I had in mind was to reverse the "L" shape of your sketch, such that one leg would be along the property line easement (as you have shown) and the other leg would be along the property line at the bottom property line. The garage would be located at the end of the "L" closest to your neighbor's property line. Garage entry might be on the side of the garage closest to you neighbor (a side loading garage) or on the side facing the street (a front loading garage), depending on choice, space available and plan arrangement. If you could get a side property line variance for the 20' setback, you likely could make enough room for a side entry garage closest to your neighbor. I don't understand the typography of your lot, so the slope may make my suggestion impractical and your idea the only feasible concept. Good luck with your project....See Moreside entry garage ??
Comments (4)We have a side-entry garage with 25' of driveway on the side of the house. I'd call that a minimum, unless you like doing three-point turns every time you enter the garage. And don't, repeat DON'T, get anything smaller than a 9' wide door. I was going to say, "...especially if you have a woman driver in the house" but I realize some readers of a female orientation might somehow interpret that as offensive or even sexist so I won't say it, OK? And in fairness, I'll confess that at my last house, I broke off the back driver-side door while backing into the garage after forgetting to close the door. I was never able to criticize DW's driving again after that... My other rule of thumb regarding driveways: make sure your driveway is at least 16' wide if it will be anything but straight. As a point of reference, the standard lane width on an Interstate highway is 12'. Bob...See MoreNeed help for tight side/garage entry stairs...
Comments (4)These stairs are inside... At the bottom of the stairs is the side door to the house and the door from the garage as well... Then up four stairs to another door that enters the living room kitchen area. The stairs are currently carpet covered pine... I will try to get a picture... Dry wall is currently going on with lots of sanding.......See MoreSide entry near garage?
Comments (15)I vote for # 4: Undesirable. I want guests to enter the house through the front door entrance. I'm including a pretty entryway, a place for them to drop their things -- I'm putting effort into this, and I want guests to use them. I don't want them to enter through the garage, past the laundry room. This applies to ALL guests from my mom to casual church friends. I don't think people pay enough attention to their driveway, parking and entrances. The way you arrange parking and doors will tell your guests where you want them to enter. In an ideal situation, the guests would park in an obvious spot ... a spot that would provide them with a clear pathway to the front door, which would be visible from the parking spot. No other door would be visible /confusing. The worst is when guests park on a side drive and must walk around a protruding garage in hopes of finding a front door that they can't actually see from the parking area. On the other hand, a door from the garage to the back yard is a good thing -- but it's just for the people who live in the house....See Morembbrown3
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8 years agoRachel (Zone 7A + wind)
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stephanie_sara
8 years agoYep, you can make it work. Attached is a quick AutoTurn analysis. This is the software used to do turning simulations at intersections. The software is pretty conservative, so the fact that it can make it means that you'd have room to make the turn. Fitting 2 cars in there is going to be tight, though. I would extend the driveway (blue) just past the garage so that you would create a "hammer head" which would facilitate backing into that space and then driving out onto the street.
I agree with mushcreek though - you should go set it up and see if you like driving it before you make that commitment.
mbbrown3
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agostephanie_sara
8 years agoYou're welcome! Yes, it could make it into the spot closest to the street, but you can see that if the other car is still there (red) the sweeping of the vehicle hits the other car (check out green lines). That means that you couldn't make it in one turn. You'd have to turn, back up, drive in straight to make the (green) car fit.
Alternatively, if you pulled the green car in first, you could then pull in the red car and make it work. You'd just have to make sure you loaded the garage that way, otherwise you're in the situation above. It's going to be tight either way though. If you could make your garage a bit wider it would help - you can see that both cars practically touch the edges of the garage entry...so think about that when you have the opening for the garage doors.
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