Garage Additions

If you need more room in your house, adding a garage may be worth considering. Garages are often thought of as boxes for cars and mowers, but a well-designed garage can actually serve many important household functions.

Once you consider all of the benefits a garage addition can provide, you might be ready to start planning for the addition. Here are just some of the reasons you might want a new garage:

1. Additional storage
2. Sheltering and maintaining your car or boat
3. Workshop
4. Playroom
5. New living space
6. Home office or studio

In both cold and hot climates, detached garages make getting from the house to the car, and back again, without having to face inclement weather a big reason to make the addition.

Detached garages offer a lot more design options. Benefits to consider include:

1. A detached garage can more easily reduce or even eliminate the garage-dominated facade that some find unattractive.
2. A detached garage can be set at an angle to the house, or set back from the house.
3. With no garage attached to the house, think of what you could do with that space. You might consider adding a patio or herbal garden in this area.
4. If you live in a moderate climate, you might actually enjoy a nicely landscaped walk from the car to the house.
5. If you have a small house, adding an attached garage can overwhelm it. A detached garage can be a much more aesthetically pleasing option.
6. It can be easier to add living space above a detached garage than an attached garage.

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