The Bizarre Reason American Garages Are Shrinking

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I found this interesting video that discusses how the garage sizes of new homes have gone down, even though the average size of vehicles has gone up...

 

[yimyammer]

I've been building for 30 years and its always a fight to make the garage as big as possible without it taking over the facade because I hate the way a house looks when its dominated by large garage doors. I tried to keep the interior dimensions to 22 feet by 22 feet and that worked out well.

Here's one of my houses that has a front entry garage, can you tell where it is?

 

[VTA]

I've been building for 30 years and its always a fight to make the garage as big as possible without it taking over the facade because I hate the way a house looks when its dominated by large garage doors. I tried to keep the interior dimensions to 22 feet by 22 feet and that worked out well.

Here's one of my houses that has a front entry garage, can you tell where it is?

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That's beautiful. I have no idea where you hid the garage.

 

[yimyammer]

That's beautiful. I have no idea where you hid the garage.

thanks, I swung the wing wall down in an arc to hide the doors from view and put windows in the garage elevation so that it appeared to be a room in the house as you drive by, this shows how you enter from the street and take a left into the garage:

 

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Mu dream home would have a circular drive, garage doors on either side. I NEVER would have to back out!!!

 

[yimyammer]

Mu dream home would have a circular drive, garage doors on either side. I NEVER would have to back out!!!

I built one you might have liked, it had doors at both ends, you enter on one side, exit off the back

 

[yimyammer]

Dont have any pics on the yard side anymore but I created big barn doors that would swing open creating a 20 foot wide opening so the garage could double as a cabana. The buyer took out the original windows in front for some reason and built some monstrosity at the curb for the address and mailbox

here's the street view: