rlhanks
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Years I've been working on this and it's finally a reality. Going to be adding a two story 39' x 25' garage/shop to the home. Have to convert the existing garage to livable space to satisfy city codes bit that is ok since we need the space any way.
15 years ago we moved out of our little home to this place and I picked it because the price was right with a modest 1700 sqft brick ranch with a 20' x 25' attached garage. They key to the place was that it had an acre lot which should be large enough to build any size shop I wanted, so I thought. Down side to it was the home sits on a slab on grade so the garage became the catch all for anything that didn't have a place in the house.
Year two in this home I built a nice shed to accommodate all the lawn equipment and such. The city limits on sheds is the structure must be less than 200 sqft. I opted for gambrel roof style pole barn, two story. Turned out really nice but it quickly filled up.
We knew we were going to have to do more so I went to the city for all the details to expand and the outcome wasn't good. Apparently the existing garage and the shed almost put us at our limit and my dream building wasn't going to happen without a variance. Knowing our neighbors that was going to be a challenge in it's self. So on the shelf the project sat. Eventually the space became so cramped I had to start looking into this. Everything I was trying to make wasn't working because of all the clutter crammed into the space I had sharing it with the rest of the household.
First, I found the plans that seemed to fit us with what we need. The garage will have an attic that will be used as if it was a basement, storage for everything that we don't need every day. Second the main floor is divided in to two areas. The front will be 25'x25' with two 9'x8' garage doors and a back room 25'x14' with a 9'x7' garage door. Almost 1000sqft of garage and 500sqft of storage.
Getting this approved I had to change the original garage to liveable space so we're converting that to a bedroom, utility room and a storage room. This changes our sqft to 2300 which allows us 1150 sqft of out building. So that number is close enough and they approved the whole project.
Permit is in the window and the excavator is in the driveway, SO THIS PROJECT IS A GO!!!
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15 years ago we moved out of our little home to this place and I picked it because the price was right with a modest 1700 sqft brick ranch with a 20' x 25' attached garage. They key to the place was that it had an acre lot which should be large enough to build any size shop I wanted, so I thought. Down side to it was the home sits on a slab on grade so the garage became the catch all for anything that didn't have a place in the house.
Year two in this home I built a nice shed to accommodate all the lawn equipment and such. The city limits on sheds is the structure must be less than 200 sqft. I opted for gambrel roof style pole barn, two story. Turned out really nice but it quickly filled up.
We knew we were going to have to do more so I went to the city for all the details to expand and the outcome wasn't good. Apparently the existing garage and the shed almost put us at our limit and my dream building wasn't going to happen without a variance. Knowing our neighbors that was going to be a challenge in it's self. So on the shelf the project sat. Eventually the space became so cramped I had to start looking into this. Everything I was trying to make wasn't working because of all the clutter crammed into the space I had sharing it with the rest of the household.
First, I found the plans that seemed to fit us with what we need. The garage will have an attic that will be used as if it was a basement, storage for everything that we don't need every day. Second the main floor is divided in to two areas. The front will be 25'x25' with two 9'x8' garage doors and a back room 25'x14' with a 9'x7' garage door. Almost 1000sqft of garage and 500sqft of storage.
Getting this approved I had to change the original garage to liveable space so we're converting that to a bedroom, utility room and a storage room. This changes our sqft to 2300 which allows us 1150 sqft of out building. So that number is close enough and they approved the whole project.
Permit is in the window and the excavator is in the driveway, SO THIS PROJECT IS A GO!!!
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