Garage placement help

[REXAMUS]

Hello everyone! Longtime lurker, first time poster here.

Unfortunately I am not building a garage yet as I have several other projects that have to be completed first. I was hoping that some of you could assist me in deciding where to put a possible future two car garage. The placement of a future garage will possibly alter what projects are going to be completed in the near future.

I have a single car garage on the far left side of the house. It is currently stuffed full of **** and our three cars get to hangout in the driveway. I am about to start building a shed in the back to help clean the garage out.

Goal: To have a two car garage and add an extra bedroom.

One of my ideas was to convert the current garage to a new master bedroom and then build a detached garage. Another was to add-on to the existing garage and put a room on top of the addition. If at all possible I would definitely want the garage to be attached.

I have a couple of ideas I was just looking to see if others had any good ideas that I haven't thought of yet.

 

[GYPSY400]

Hello everyone! I was hoping that some of you could assist me in deciding where to put a possible future two car garage.

Goal: To have a two car garage and add an extra bedroom.

One of my ideas was to convert the current garage to a new master bedroom and then build a detached garage. Another was to add-on to the existing garage and put a room on top of the addition. If at all possible I would definitely want the garage to be attached.

I would turn the garage into the master.. Add electric in-floor heating, turn the door opening into some big windows (4 or 5 vertical windows looks slick ) etc. Etc.

Then build a 2 car garage off to the side. Either route the driveway around to the back, to the side, or have the garage perpendicular to the house..
you may want the garage attached.. but fire up a 4" grinder at 11pm, and your wife will have a different opinion.



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[bazzateer]

Convert the existing garage into the bedroom. Then build a large detached garage to the left of the house as viewed from the road. This way you only need to extend the top of the drive to the left by a few yards to reach the garage doors which I would have facing the house.

The garage could be connected to the house by a covered walk-way giving a semblance of being part of the house but with the advantage of being separate (noise/dirt etc).

 

[REXAMUS]

I was actually going to frame the existing garage out to make it the same floor height as the rest of the house. I was then going to finish the area where the garage door is with siding and put a window.

Both of you seem to agree with what my wife said she would be happy with. This picture shows where she said would be fine with her.