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I am considering building a garage-less 3000 sq ft home on a 1/4 acre lot on Long Island.
We think that dropping a garage would provide us enormous open space on the first floor,
almost 30x50 ft in size, with 9ft ceilings, resembling one of those giant Manhattan apartments taking an entire floor.
Upstairs, special care has been taken to create the biggest possible bedrooms.
Please provide feedback on whether you find such design concept interesting, and whether you would ever consider viewing such a house, if you were in a market to buy one.
Last edited by ikarets; 05-09-2017 at 11:09 PM..
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Better check with an architect who knows your town/vilage's laws. Some jurisdictions require a garage.
But a 3000 square foot house without a garage? Sounds ridiculous to me. Hope you plan to leave that house feet first because it will be a tough re-sell IMO. If I were spending LI money on a 3000 sq foot house it would need a garage, preferably a 2 car.
To me, a garage is crucial. Even it is a one car garage it's important for storage. I can go on and on about the usefulness of a garage but it would be a long list. How about a 2 car detached garage?
I'm with everyone else. You better be planning on that being your retirement home. And someone else's problem to sell. No way anyone buys a 3000 sqft house without a garage.
Foot print wise, I love it. But I'm from queens, and any yard looks like a big yard to me. I have 1500 sqft ranch + two 1car garages on a 1/4 acre. And I still get tired mowing what's left of a lawn.
So, nobody would care about huge, nearly 30x50 ft, open space downstairs, where you could have full size ping-pong table, full size pool table, in addition to all the regular dining room stuff, with room to roam ( or should I say room to run laps ) ? The biggest TV in production will be perfect fit there. Manhattan loft kind of concept ?
No ? I mean, nobody parks in garage anyway. Most SUV's can't even get in there.
Oh, the property is 100x100, the house will have 21 ft offsets from neighbors on the side, there is no space for a detached garage. The house is also 10 min walk to LIRR train which never has any parking after 7am, 5 min walk to elementary, and for the adventurous -- a 20 min walk to High School.
I can tell you for a fact that maybe 2-3 years ago a house in Old Bethpage with no garage on a 1/4 acre and around 3k sq ft sold for slightly over a million. My friend lives on the street. If this is what you want build it. If you are building a new home you are probably going to live in it for a minimum of 20 years, you deal with the resale when the time comes.
Honestly , depends on the town you would build in and how much space you would dedicate to storage inside.
With that said, less than 5-7% of the homes I inspect are "garageless".
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