Looking for some pics - detached garages with 14' walls..

[BellyUpFish]

Getting ready to start construction on the new house and shop.

I'm just trying to prevent the shop from completely dwarfing the house. House will be 2 stories, so that should help.

Anyone?

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Start referring to it as a shop and house.

A few ideas to detract from the shop and maintain what is often referred to a "curb appeal" (IDK why they use that term)
Set it far away from the house
Behind the house
down hill from the house
plant trees between it and the house
Make it a neutral, natural color.
Keep the adornment to a minimum.

 

[nine4gmc]

The garage should dwarf the house if built right. I could get away with a few hundred sq ft living area but I need a HUGE shop to work in.

 

[Thumper68]

Here are a few of my shop with 14 foot side wall.

I will preface it with, 14 foot sidewalls are huge there is no hiding that.

You can use things like the eyebrow roof I have to break up the height.

 

[sedgar2156]

Put the living space over the garage!

 

[pmiranda]

Maybe not practical for your planned method of construction, but scissor trusses and lower sidewalls get you nice tall center bays.

 

[woodzy]

This is not exactly what you want, but in my new house since the basement is only 3 1/2 feet deep (that in the ground for the people thinking we are small people), there was a lot of wall sticking out of the ground. The stone on the side ends at the top of the basement. My garage has 6 steps up to the house which left me with 13' high walls in the garage. 3' concrete and 10' wood walls.

I was concerned that the walls going into the garage would look strange with all that siding. I first thought about adding some transom windows to break it up and the builder didn't like that idea. They suggested 8' high doors which takes some of it and if I ever got a higher vehicle I would be set.

Then I looked at adding some eyebrow roof over it so that is what we settled on.



I thought I had a straight on shot of the doors but can't seem to find it at the moment.

 

[Chris705]

My 44' x 40' x 14' walls. 8/12 rafters with walk up attic. A work in progress.

 

[toomany]

I just finished 30x36x14. If it were near my single story house...it would dwarf it. It dwarfs my neighbors house behind it. It looks like a two story house back there. And even though I played by the rules (permits, more than doubled the set backs, talked to the neighbors that could see it) I still got complaints once it was done. One of the complaints the city got was "I didn't think he'd go that tall" (WTF do you think 14' sidewall means!?....Stupid neighbor).

Would I change anything about it? Possibly a wainscoting of the darker trim color around the base to help break up the height. Other than that....not a single thing. I absolutely love the size/height. It left me with enough room to build a storage loft and be able to stand up on top of and below it plus have enough height for my hoist.


For reference, those are 10x10 doors.




Just about finished.










From up on the loft looking down.

 

[THill]

My shop/garage is 16 with a hip roof (24 total height) All the surrounding houses at single floor. It has 3 12x12 roll ups, two in front, one in back facing the pool.

 

[BellyUpFish]

Toomany- man, I love the loft idea. That almost doubles your effective square footage.

I was thinking attic trusses, but a loft might be cheaper/easier.

I think I'm gonna have to look into that.

Thill- nice shop. I've been debating roll up doors vs conventional.

 

[toomany]

Toomany- man, I love the loft idea. That almost doubles your effective square footage.

I was thinking attic trusses, but a loft might be cheaper/easier.

I think I'm gonna have to look into that.

Thanks!

I've probably got $450-500 into that with some leftover lumber. For what it cost and what I plan on storing up there I think it was well worth the investment. Getting something up there is fairly easy vs. getting something up a 14' ladder into the attic. You could do both, loft with attic trusses. Use the loft to get yourself closer to the ceiling. That's how I did it...you can see the opening I framed in above the loft to get me on top of the trusses.

If you search around on the board, there are a lot of good threads on building them.

 

[lakeroadster]

30 x 40 we built at our last place, circa 2005..... It was about 30 feet and to the right of the existing one story home. Visually looked like it was all meant to be.



_____
John

 

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[jives]

You can check out my build at the link below. 32 x 42, with 14' walls and a 9/12 pitch roof that put the total height at about 28'. House has a smaller footprint, but is two storey and a tad taller.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=287155&highlight=jives

 

[bowtie1972]

here's mine, new shop trying to make look old