Well folks, this may seem a little corney, but here goes. I've been in the house I am right now for about ten years. Of those ten years I have been without a garage. All I have had is a one car carport. Well, we made an offer on a new home for our growing family. It's a four bedroom, 2400 ft house built in 1962 and it's ******** sweet! And the best part, it has a two car garage!!!!!! I'll be happeir than a punk in Boy's Town to be getting a garage. Hopefully, if all goes well, they will accept our offer and we'll be moving in soon since my house is already sold.........So this brings me to the subject of this post..... Lets see your garage's. Not your shop, I want to see what you guy's have and have built in a two car garage in Suburbia USA.
There is a huge post here somewhere on this topic already -- it went around a few months back. Try a search...
dont try another search! It a message Board right???????? well here, I started movin in here today! pretty stoked
I'm excited too! Just put up a brand new oversize garage. My deed restricts me to a two car garage and town code restricts me to 28' x 28' maximum size, so that's what we built. But in reality I could shoehorn four cars inside. Question is...which four???
Heres a little of it lol 30x40 with loft plus has an oversized one car garge next to it I keep storage in it mower bikes toys etc keeps the garage uncluttlered and no ladders falling on the cars lol
.....feeling somewhat inadequate (garage-wise that is) This was a before pic of the 46 kinda stuffed in there sideways. Now the garage is fullsize.
I hear ya 1LoweSabre - My fiance and I just had an offer accepted on a house with a garage. It's newer than the house, so new that it doesn't even have electricity run to it yet, but already has a giant forced air heater just waiting for the juice. Up here in Maine that is a necessity to say the least. I'm so excited to get inside of it, it hurts. March 16 Baby! I've already got plans in my head for insulation, several 110 and 220 volt outlets, running water if I can swing it, and even an I dea for expanding a "shop" space. I can not wait. My fiance is already aware that she shoudl just consider it off-limits and will NEVER be able to park her Honda in there. Mwahahahahaha!
My old italian father in law can't understand the old cars IN the garage and the new ones OUTSIDE in the snow and rain I understand though.........
I purchaced a former gas station/garage with attached house types a few years ago. It has a huge four car garage, this place is exactly what I always dreamed of owning someday. It needed a sizable amout of renovation, but that was expected for the price. Its only twenty minutes from the beach and a mile away from lakeside camping. I loved that in the middle of nowhere, I had a rustic, good ol' fashioned general store on the otherside of the road still with its old 40's texaco 'lollipop' sign. Well, half way into the renovation, I think I'll 'freshen-up' the garage and gutt out the ****py isulation job done by the previous owners. To my shock, pulling down the ceiling, I discovered there had been a fire at one point in the past. Mind you, we're talking real full dimensional rough cut wood here, so the fire, although big, had little effect on the overall structure. What pee'd me off is that the previous owner, instead of easily peeling of the older cracked tar, and tacking plywood to the structure, he lazyly put the new over the old, which left an air space between the two for water to percolate in and rot what otherwise would have been salvagable. Needless to say, I soon ran out of money and time, so I have no garage roof and had to sell my 55' chevy wagon, now I'm going to lose the house and everything because of this turd. Some people just have no business holding a hammer, their at***ude is not in doing a job right but rather as quickly and effortless as possible. If money or ignorance was an issue, I'd relate but that wasn't the case-simply smug laziness, just like when a jockey torques on your lugs with an impact wrench -all, s*** of the earth. Sorry for the rant, but the thought of probably never owning a house again, tends to put a damper on my otherwise good nature whenever the topic comes up.
Hey Nate, wanna trade? I dream of knocking everything in my back yard down and putting up something like that. Only one problem and it starts with W and ends with H............Whole lotta cash.
My wife and I just put in an offer to my mother-in-law on her old place, but it is in the country on 2.4 acres. The house has a 2 car 30x24 attatched garage with a 14' shop on the back of it. I plan to add one bay wide to the garage for starters, but the real winner is the 70x60 barn. It needs some work, but it is awsome. 20 feet lean-to on three sides of a 30x40 barn with a full loft. It wont be shop ready for a long time, but it is the only reason we are buying the dump of a ranch house.
Hey ScapeGoat I had the same thing going on here, I don't know what the inspector was looking at other than the 400 bucks I gave him. The first year I had to sell a rigid shovel to put a new roof on the garage and the house has a lot of shoe cobbler work done to it too. You just look at the big picture and keep going forward but maybe I'm blinded by the size of the garage...lol
Here's some shots of my new garage. Its still a work in progress. Maybe in 20 or 30 years I'll have as much neat **** laying around as Kiwi Kev..............
Ol 55 that just looks like the most peaceful place in the world you got there...till of course, you fire up one of those V8's! NICE!
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