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Meh...when my kids were younger, one bay of our "2 car" (barely) garage housed kids bicycles, skates basketballs and other stuff they used daily and needed easy access to. As they aged out of that stuff, both cars made their way back.
As long as the house and yard look neat and well maintained, I don't care what they do with their garage.
Is a garage a non-negotiable for you when house hunting? It sure is for me.
Even when I was in an apartment, only buildings with garages were even considered.
I'd never buy or rent a house with no garage. (Not if I could help it.)
My days of cleaning snow off the car, or parking on the street (at home) are over.
I purchased my current home because it has a 625-square foot, side-loading, under-the-house garage. Yeah, baby! 625 square foot of automotive/workshop bliss.
I also put up a small shed in the yard, lest I be tempted to put anything inappropriate in the garage!
Way too many men, upon seeing my spotless and clean garage say, "Your husband doesn't let you fill up the garage with crap!" And I set them STRAIGHT. There is no husband and if there is, that fellow better keep a clean garage!
I purchased my current home because it has a 625-square foot, side-loading, under-the-house garage. Yeah, baby! 625 square foot of automotive/workshop bliss.
I also put up a small shed in the yard, lest I be tempted to put anything inappropriate in the garage!
Way too many men, upon seeing my spotless and clean garage say, "Your husband doesn't let you fill up the garage with crap!" And I set them STRAIGHT. There is no husband and if there is, that fellow better keep a clean garage!
It’s really a garage/showroom/shop, I love it! Hope you have a music system and huge flat screen down there as well.
I purchased my current home because it has a 625-square foot, side-loading, under-the-house garage. Yeah, baby! 625 square foot of automotive/workshop bliss.
I also put up a small shed in the yard, lest I be tempted to put anything inappropriate in the garage!
Way too many men, upon seeing my spotless and clean garage say, "Your husband doesn't let you fill up the garage with crap!" And I set them STRAIGHT. There is no husband and if there is, that fellow better keep a clean garage!
We had a tiny two car garage in our last house, and we put our cars in every night. We now have an oversized two car garage, and we put our cars in every night. If you need to store rooms of furniture, you can rent storage. If you can’t afford to rent storage, you can find systems that store things overhead in your garage.
Or you can buy one of those sheds I see on the parking lots of big box hardware stores.
But, yes, people tend to cram their garages with stuff they don’t want to deal with. But your car is a major investment. It needs to be garaged, IMO.
I'm picturing the OPs garage as spotless without a tool anywhere. Or perhaps a few new tools artfully displayed on peg boards above a perfectly clean never used work bench.
Perhaps like my grandfather, outlines of each tool on the pegboard drawn with black marker so everyone knows exactly where it goes. He used his all the time though!
I want to use our garage during bad weather, and we did squeeze my car in during the last snow. We just moved last year htough, combining 2 homes into one, so we still have a lot of stuff to go through and a very large "Yard Sale" pile in the garage waiting for warmer weather. I wanted that pile brought upstairs, but my honey said he's not carrying it all up just to carry it all back down again.
Ours is small, too. It's a double garage, but each side seems narrow and I have to drive in and out very carefully to avoid clipping my side mirrors.
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