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My garage is clutter free. I have never understood why people would park their cars outside instead of getting rid of unused or very rarely used stuff.
Same here.
Our vehicles are worth more than the junk most people store in their garage.
Both vehicles are inside the two car garage.
We have a basement, but we don't store stuff in it. We actually USE the space!
The car is parked in the garage. Two extension ladders are stored on one wall. Two sets of shelving for my gardening stuff. One garbage can and one recycling can. Two snow shovels along with a mini garbage can filled with ice melt. Oh.. and a pushbroom for the patio.
The only thing......hiding...........could be a mouse........or maybe meece! Thankfully, it's detached!
One of the things that I found unusual when house hunting down south was the number of homes that seem to use their garages as "man cave porches". Touring the neighborhoods I would see men sitting in garages chatting, playing cards, watching tv and barbequing. Some of these garages also had large screen garage doors. An interesting use of space.
My garage is antique (built in 1927) and is full of antiques as well, overflow from when I had my antiques shop. I don't think a car has been parked inside since 1950 anyway, so I don't feel bad storing my things there until they're sold. There's a workbench area for restoration work as well. However, everything in the garage is neatly arranged and grouped together in "similar" groupings: bed rails, head and footboards, antique heaters, chairs, etc. I've got work ahead for quite awhile! And my van is right outside on the paved area so I can unload right into the garage - which is how I planned it!
When I moved into my house twelve years ago, I thought that maybe I could rent out one side of my 2 1/2 car garage. Never happened. Never going to happen. I park my car in the right bay. The left bay is for: riding lawn mower, snowblower, rototiller, self-propelled lawn mower, yard sweeper, blowers, weed whacker, hand garden cart, garden tools (rakes, spades, hoes, etc), coolers, winter storage for yard art, metal or plastic containers for bird seed. The attached shed addition in the back holds a supply of lumber, lawn furniture, ladders, work bench.
The only things stored in my basement are furnace filters and paint.
One of the things that I found unusual when house hunting down south was the number of homes that seem to use their garages as "man cave porches". Touring the neighborhoods I would see men sitting in garages chatting, playing cards, watching tv and barbequing. Some of these garages also had large screen garage doors. An interesting use of space.
That's sort of common in Upstate New York, too, especially in smaller, older homes without family rooms or finished/finishable basements.
I think we have had a car in our garage once. It is a one car garage and once inside we could not open the car door fully so out the car went and instead we park the riding mower and who knows what else. I don't go in there. It scares me.
I think we have had a car in our garage once. It is a one car garage and once inside we could not open the car door fully so out the car went and instead we park the riding mower and who knows what else. I don't go in there. It scares me.
Many older garages (built pre-1950s) tend to have small garage bays. My aunt originally had a three bay garage that was 22' feet wide with three sets of swing out doors and 2 poles between the bays supporting the roof. She replaced it with a 24' wide garage with 2 doors, which made it like "heaven". She lived on a corner and the garage faced the other street, so the driveway was short (about a car length) and wide. For parties, she parked the cars on the street across the driveway to block it and used the garage and driveway for entertaining.
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