Need some advice on a new garage, oops I mean house

dnyhof · 10-11-04, 04:26

I'm toying with the idea of building a new home in the next year. Currently I'm just looking at getting a lot that I like with some room to work. The one I've got my eye on is 84 feet wide so I am trying to figure out how I can fit a fourstall total garage into this thing. My current house is 54/55 feet wide with a 2 1/2 stall garage on it and I'd like to not get to the point that all you see when you look at the front of my house is garage doors (specifically four stalls).

So does anyone have any ideas on how you can arrange a house no wider than 60 feet that still has some "house" to the front of it and still have four stalls (and not be an expensive stacked garage)? I'm trying to keep the total cost of the house to $110,000 (My father's looking at cutting me a deal as he used to build houses until he retired). I'm just curious if there's any design masters out there with some insights. Total sq. ft on the main floor I'm looking at 1300 (it's a ranch) with 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, great room, dining area and kitchen.

So if those were your specs and you could build your dream garage around that how would you lay it out?

medic · 10-11-04, 10:00

I really have no clue as I've never built a house, and at this point I'd be happy with anything other than the carport I have, but I think the first step may be to check the building codes in your area...there are specific offsets and other rules that may alter your plans

do you have access for a side mounted 2x2 garage, something so you drive the car around to the side of the house to park (that way the doors can't be seen from the street). and 2x2 would allow the garage to be really deep, but not so wide - although, then you need to play musical cars

Setec Astronomy · 10-11-04, 10:08

Dream garage...don't get me started!

MacGyver · 10-11-04, 10:28

This is a pic of the back of my home...

Each side is 24' deep by 48' wide, leaving room for 8 cars, 4 on each side with two double wide garage doors. To utilize the most space you can use a glu-lamb beam to span the 24' feet and then use a saddle bracket over the glu-lamb and attach seperate beams from the exterior walls to the saddle bracket. This elimates the need for an interior wall inside the garage, thus creating a fully useable 24' by 48' garage.

unfortunately, it is quite impossible to work on 4 automobiles all at once, at least in this application. Three is more realistic with one parked at an angle in the center.

TW85 HHI · 10-13-04, 05:15

Why not do a two wide x four deep?

dnyhof · 10-13-04, 06:40

Got some new information, found out from my city that I can have up to 1024 sq. feet of garage so long as I have equal that in living space. The covenants of my subdivision state that I have to have 1200sq. ft. on the main floor so I think I can manage it. I have an idea that I think will work too. I'm looking at putting three stalls up front so that it will look like a normal house in this little cul de sac and then having one on the side coming off of the basement with a drive going up to the main drive way. One cool idea I thought of instead of pouring concrete was putting in blocks that have 3-4 inch recessed squares in them, then growing grass in there, but still having the green space. Anyone know where you can find information on such a thing? It has to be an easy do it yourself I would think....

TW85 HHI · 10-13-04, 08:18

Belgard makes pavers with holes in them that allow grass to grow through. In fact, most brick/paver companies have them.