I was reluctant to start a thread for mine, after looking at some of the work you have all put into your own garages. But, here it is so far. The outside still needs some completion, stone and what not. I am building the entire thing myself, house and garage. It has been a slow project (3 years and counting), but I am starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. We are now in the house and life is good!
The Garage is 24x25 with 10 foot ceilings. I added attic trusses to the top, allowing for an additional 12x25 room. Pitch is 10/12 with 18 inches of overhang. I pulled electrical and HVAC up into the attic space for future completion of that room. I still need to construct a staircase to access it, but that is the next project on my agenda.
SHMO
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The house and garage were sided and trimmed with reclaimed Cedar from the property. I was forced to cut down 43 Western Red cedars trees to make room for the house. I had a portable saw mill brought in and sliced up 10,000 board feet of rough cut lumber. I think that is one of the neatest features of my home.
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80200202189_2413015_n.jpg
Front still needs stone installed. I can't make up my mind on a stone. I have been leaning towards using field stone with an overgrout technique, but if anyone has a different suggestion, I am all ears.
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I did not have the money to buy custom carriage house doors. So, I built my own. Well, lets say I modified my own. I started with some heavy construction insulated plywood doors at around $1,300 a pop, then trimmed them out with Cedar. You can see the first part of the cedar already installed and some of it already stained with Sikkens Cetol.
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80190747189_1214712_n.jpg
All in all, they turned out really nice. Would I do it again, probably not...haha
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80191232189_6617771_n.jpg
When I had the door blanks built, I added the arched windows. Then I built my garage's rough openings to match the arch. I trimmed the openings with, you guessed it, more cedar. I decided to do something a little different for the arches of the door openings, and finished them out to match the soffits on the rest of my home. I am really happy with the results. It adds a lot of curb appeal to the somewhat simple architecture of my house.
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/5340_132378137189_1369902_n.jpg
Knee braces I built from some 5x10 and 5x8 Cedar. I added fake dowel stock to resemble timber frame construction.
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/5340_132378162189_1161475_n.jpg
Side shot. Nothing special here, but it shows the only window on the ground floor, and how I trimmed out all the windows on my house. It also shows how I frenched in my electrical box and housed everything else in the cleanest simplest way I could. I HATE seeing stuff hanging off the side of garages.
SHMO
The Garage is 24x25 with 10 foot ceilings. I added attic trusses to the top, allowing for an additional 12x25 room. Pitch is 10/12 with 18 inches of overhang. I pulled electrical and HVAC up into the attic space for future completion of that room. I still need to construct a staircase to access it, but that is the next project on my agenda.
SHMO
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/5340_132378152189_4364470_n.jpg
The house and garage were sided and trimmed with reclaimed Cedar from the property. I was forced to cut down 43 Western Red cedars trees to make room for the house. I had a portable saw mill brought in and sliced up 10,000 board feet of rough cut lumber. I think that is one of the neatest features of my home.
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80200202189_2413015_n.jpg
Front still needs stone installed. I can't make up my mind on a stone. I have been leaning towards using field stone with an overgrout technique, but if anyone has a different suggestion, I am all ears.
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/346_36004947189_9214_n.jpg
I did not have the money to buy custom carriage house doors. So, I built my own. Well, lets say I modified my own. I started with some heavy construction insulated plywood doors at around $1,300 a pop, then trimmed them out with Cedar. You can see the first part of the cedar already installed and some of it already stained with Sikkens Cetol.
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80190747189_1214712_n.jpg
All in all, they turned out really nice. Would I do it again, probably not...haha
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/3109_80191232189_6617771_n.jpg
When I had the door blanks built, I added the arched windows. Then I built my garage's rough openings to match the arch. I trimmed the openings with, you guessed it, more cedar. I decided to do something a little different for the arches of the door openings, and finished them out to match the soffits on the rest of my home. I am really happy with the results. It adds a lot of curb appeal to the somewhat simple architecture of my house.
http://sphotos-a.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/5340_132378137189_1369902_n.jpg
Knee braces I built from some 5x10 and 5x8 Cedar. I added fake dowel stock to resemble timber frame construction.
http://sphotos-b.**.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/5340_132378162189_1161475_n.jpg
Side shot. Nothing special here, but it shows the only window on the ground floor, and how I trimmed out all the windows on my house. It also shows how I frenched in my electrical box and housed everything else in the cleanest simplest way I could. I HATE seeing stuff hanging off the side of garages.
SHMO
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