Hi there
Just moved to Utah this year to marry my lovely wife, and moved into the home she bought in 2004. It was built in about '57, and she bought off the original owners.
The house sits in the middle of the lot, with a car port to the eastern side:
and a grafted-on garage with sun room above to the west:
Obviously, the focus of my joining this board is the latter
When I say that the garage and sun room was grafted on, I'm not kidding:
I've slapped up some exterior paint for now to help brighten it up inside, but yes, that is the original exterior brick on the left-hand wall of the garage, with a door chopped roughly into the side of the house.
The sun room is similar:
The insulation is coming away from the metal roof (metal roof + Utah summers stretches any adhesive a bit too much), but, once again, we have the exterior siding as the inside wall of the room, and a door into one of the bedrooms roughly slapped in.
More pics of the garage here and the sun room above here.
Ideally, I think the best option would be to demo and start again, but would be glad to hear any ideas, and possibly costs involved with rebuilding too - including a new concrete floor as the one laid is pretty bad.
The option we're thinking at the moment is to save up enough to demo and rebuild to a garage with normal bedroom over, possibly a master bath over the back (we can go back a further 3' or so to get level with the back wall of the house, removing the sun room exterior stairs), building the roof to match the existing line (building approval being granted, naturally), and maybe having the garage tall enough to accept a VW camper or similar height vehicle (would need probably 84" of clearance for that).
What do we think? It looks a bit of a botch job to me, but I could be wrong
Just moved to Utah this year to marry my lovely wife, and moved into the home she bought in 2004. It was built in about '57, and she bought off the original owners.
The house sits in the middle of the lot, with a car port to the eastern side:
and a grafted-on garage with sun room above to the west:
Obviously, the focus of my joining this board is the latter
When I say that the garage and sun room was grafted on, I'm not kidding:
I've slapped up some exterior paint for now to help brighten it up inside, but yes, that is the original exterior brick on the left-hand wall of the garage, with a door chopped roughly into the side of the house.
The sun room is similar:
The insulation is coming away from the metal roof (metal roof + Utah summers stretches any adhesive a bit too much), but, once again, we have the exterior siding as the inside wall of the room, and a door into one of the bedrooms roughly slapped in.
More pics of the garage here and the sun room above here.
Ideally, I think the best option would be to demo and start again, but would be glad to hear any ideas, and possibly costs involved with rebuilding too - including a new concrete floor as the one laid is pretty bad.
The option we're thinking at the moment is to save up enough to demo and rebuild to a garage with normal bedroom over, possibly a master bath over the back (we can go back a further 3' or so to get level with the back wall of the house, removing the sun room exterior stairs), building the roof to match the existing line (building approval being granted, naturally), and maybe having the garage tall enough to accept a VW camper or similar height vehicle (would need probably 84" of clearance for that).
What do we think? It looks a bit of a botch job to me, but I could be wrong
