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I have a double attached garage facing the front. I like it because I drive in a close the garage door then walk into the din. No getting wet. Same with leaving.
My small, single car garage is right on the street- I mean right on- my "driveway" is just a little over two feet long, so I guess you could describe it as a snout-nosed design, but it is a historical house with great original architecture so it just becomes part of the overall composition of the facade.
Actually mine is a very rare attached garage for the era and neighborhood, and while it's basically too small to park a car in it (you could, but you would have to then exit and enter through the sunroof) it's nice to have for bike storage, laundry and the door is super cool- set in an arch and segmented into three vertical panels that operate with one segment as normal size swing door or all segments slide to the inside garage wall on an overhead monorail track.
Most of the houses in the neighborhood have driveways to rear detached (almost always small, one car) garages typical of early 20th century street car suburbs. Even the grand, large houses in the neighborhood mostly have small one car garages so we are all pretty much resigned and used to parking our cars on the street or driveway. When the block is sloping you will see more garages like mine or tucked under the house, a few alleys with garage access also are present.
You definitely don't buy into this neighborhood if huge, three car garages are a priority- they basically don't exist. What we give up in garage space we make up for with amazing, varied historic architecture, well tended cottage gardens and a walkable, vibrant village atmosphere.
I always like to say I am garage/driveway poor but garden rich on our compact urban lot, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
A picture is worth a thousand words. This is of my garage before I bought my house. I have since the replaced both overhead doors with an insulated steel model, makes a huge difference in winter.
My garage is a side entry into the basement. There must be an HOA rule that no garages can face the street, so most have side entries. A few have back entries, where you drive around the house and park from the back.
We do have a dumbwaiter, so we don't have to carry the groceries up the stairs.
This is my neighborhood. All ours have rear, detached garages with a long driveway back to them. Originally, they had a center grass strip down the middle (I assume to reduce the impervious surface) which some have filled in with stamped concrete to make it easier to back out without running over the grass.
Ours is a side load, which is the only kind I like. Then, we have a second two car garage set back and facing the street. No houses are alike in our neighborhood, and some houses have garages facing the street, but they are even with the house, so not very prominent.
You are not supposed to see the garages in our neighborhood, so they are in front but are sideways so if you look head-on at the house, you just see house.
Mine is on the corner, so the garage entrance is on another street - still sideways.
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