This site is great I have gotten a lot of really valuable info and would like to share what I have been doing with some of that info! I love the garage build threads and get a lot of inspiration from what others are doing and some of the really ingenious ideas and designs. I am looking forward to feedback and suggestions too.
We originally built our home in 2002 and I have been unhappy with the size of the garage ever since. I have been a gearhead car nut for a long time and have always wanted to have a large shop at home to work on Hot Rods. For the last 5 years we have been looking for a decent piece of property to build a new house on or to buy a current house with a bigger garage and we have not been able to find anything in our area that suited all our needs and the cost of building something similar to what we already have is ridiculous these days. We decided to finally just pull the trigger last fall and build an addition off the back side of the current garage and just stay in our current home. We have several things we didn't like about the house but all of them can be fixed. We started with the mud room and basement now for the garage and next winter we will do the kitchen and family room.
Where I live u are only allowed up to 640sqft detached garage in a residential neighborhood and in my particular neighborhood the garage would need to be attached to the house, have a matching brick foundation and the door can not face the front of the house. We submitted the plans and got the permit approval without much of a problem. The neighbors are all pretty cool so we didn't run into any issues there, three of my close neighbors are car guys and they are all looking forward to the garage party this summer lol!
The original garage has three bays at about 600sqft and has a walkout basement where the plywood is stacked in the picture. Here is a pic of my garage from when I was finishing up a frame off restomod on an 86 T-type. I will have 1800sqft of garage space after the addition.
The biggest issue with the original garage was it was to short at 21' and with where the cabinets were I would have to park my truck in the first bay. This didnt leave enough room to walk around it or to get even get in the house with both cars in the garage! The original entrance to the house is all the way at the front of the garage and goes directly into the kitchen in a narrow hallway where everyone's shoes ended up along with everyone's stuff all over the kitchen. We are actually going to use that space and build a walkin pantry there when we re-do the kitchen next winter. We moved the entrance to the house from the back of the garage to the front and knock a hole in a wall to a 1st floor spare room and made it a mud room. The entrance is right by the door and at the top of the basement access which is MUCH more convenient. We did this last winter.
Here you can see how tight it is with my truck. You can also see the new door and entrance at the front of the garage next to the man door and not back where the kitchen is located.
Next thread will be the build pics. We broke ground on November 15th 2018.
We originally built our home in 2002 and I have been unhappy with the size of the garage ever since. I have been a gearhead car nut for a long time and have always wanted to have a large shop at home to work on Hot Rods. For the last 5 years we have been looking for a decent piece of property to build a new house on or to buy a current house with a bigger garage and we have not been able to find anything in our area that suited all our needs and the cost of building something similar to what we already have is ridiculous these days. We decided to finally just pull the trigger last fall and build an addition off the back side of the current garage and just stay in our current home. We have several things we didn't like about the house but all of them can be fixed. We started with the mud room and basement now for the garage and next winter we will do the kitchen and family room.
Where I live u are only allowed up to 640sqft detached garage in a residential neighborhood and in my particular neighborhood the garage would need to be attached to the house, have a matching brick foundation and the door can not face the front of the house. We submitted the plans and got the permit approval without much of a problem. The neighbors are all pretty cool so we didn't run into any issues there, three of my close neighbors are car guys and they are all looking forward to the garage party this summer lol!
The original garage has three bays at about 600sqft and has a walkout basement where the plywood is stacked in the picture. Here is a pic of my garage from when I was finishing up a frame off restomod on an 86 T-type. I will have 1800sqft of garage space after the addition.
The biggest issue with the original garage was it was to short at 21' and with where the cabinets were I would have to park my truck in the first bay. This didnt leave enough room to walk around it or to get even get in the house with both cars in the garage! The original entrance to the house is all the way at the front of the garage and goes directly into the kitchen in a narrow hallway where everyone's shoes ended up along with everyone's stuff all over the kitchen. We are actually going to use that space and build a walkin pantry there when we re-do the kitchen next winter. We moved the entrance to the house from the back of the garage to the front and knock a hole in a wall to a 1st floor spare room and made it a mud room. The entrance is right by the door and at the top of the basement access which is MUCH more convenient. We did this last winter.
Here you can see how tight it is with my truck. You can also see the new door and entrance at the front of the garage next to the man door and not back where the kitchen is located.
Next thread will be the build pics. We broke ground on November 15th 2018.
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