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I will second this - unless you're fortunate enough to use the highest quality southern pine or perhaps a machine-stress-rated lumber product. We'll typically spec spruce-pine-fir #2 for our wood-framed projects. The allowable bending stress of this material is pretty much 1/3 that of an LVL...

if you do a single door, consider using a steel header over the opening. Wood will sag over time, and I can't tell you how many garages I've seen where there was a noticeable sag above the garage door. LVL's may not sag as much, but at that span, the cost difference may be negligible.

this is the idea I was thinking as well, but I haven't had time to look into it. I'm almost ready to just throw sandbags down...

as long as 4hi works on the Sierra, I'm all ready. We had one snow back in October, but there were flurries this morning on the way in to work. The only part of winter I don't like is having a driveway long enough to park cars 2-wide, 3-deep, and no snowblower yet to clean it off :(

Craftsman has worked well for me.

no kidding. Makes me realize I have a lot of work to do in the ol' garage now...

I actually stumbled across this place a few weeks ago looking for peoples' experiences with putting LCD TVs in their garages, and through looking around have become quite interested in everyone else's garages. Basically what I've discovered is that I have a lot of work to do in my humble garage...