We have a fairly small 2-car garage. We have 2 cars, a motorcycle, and right now a big snow blower! Not enough room!

Many places do not have garages where we currently live--it's refreshing NOT to see 60% of he front facade of a house taken up by the garage. My biggest beef about garages is that city planning lacks back lane ways for access to garages that sit behind the house!

We have a single car detached garage that was built sometime in the 1940's. What drives me crazy is that the driveway to the garage is just wide enough to fit a single car, making it impossible to park more than one person off the street at a time without meticulous planning around who leaves the house first!

I micromanaged my original demo/reno/addition, like any project I suppose, and I was on site when the garage floor was being poured. I was biting my tongue from saying, "Make sure it pitches out," thinking that would just be insulting to the subs, for whom it was a common task.

Guess what I get to sweep out every time it rains?

I would, given the choice, always have the mechanical equip. and the washer and dryer inside of the home. More convenient to service and use when you are in a climate with seasonal change. I would always opt for a garage that is attached to the house, as it promotes safety and convenience, especially for moms with kids/groceries and seniors dealing with any mobility issues.

Individual doors. As a broker it seems to be an issue for most buyers.

Undoubtedly it is easier in inclement weather to have an attached garage. However the toxic off gassing that comes from bringing a motor vehicle ( carbon monoxide) into a home is not safe by a long shot for the occupants. Less chance of being mugged for sure but brings other issues. If you can put the garage door open to the side rather than the front less offensive looking.

Our garage is under our 1930 house. So our driveway pitches down. Awesome design- any time rain is predicted to be 1/2" in a day, I have to put a sump pump into the dry well & snake the hose out to the street. We learned the hard way when our garage had 2+" of water in the whole thing when to put the pump in. We mostly just leave it in for the spring.

Of course, we could have a permanent sump installed into a 2nd drywall. But that would cost at least $1000 & I'd much rather spend that kind of money on a new bathroom sink! But I digress….

Ours is a snout house. In fact, our house looks like a garage with a little front door and one window attached. I am not a fan, but once you come inside, you forget about the garage and it's all about the view in the back. I do like the garage (plenty of room!) but just wish it faced to the side. Our lot made that configuration impossible.

Garages can often be one-quarter of the front elevation, and distasteful garage doors can easily ruin an otherwise flawless exterior. Most people enter their home through their garage. It’s their garage doors that welcome them home!! So why wouldn’t you treat them with the same pomp as the front entry door? So, naturally our biggest gripe about most garages are roll-ups, especially when you could have the real thing! Here are some photos of garages that got a facelift:

Living in an 80 year old house with detached garage and the drive is so narrow, I can't get a car back there. Must have been built for a model T or a buggy. Would love to have a garage attached with remote control. That's living!

we have a three car garage..,no complaints there...I wish that we could have cabinets sooner than later so I can actually fit everything in them. We can fit a car in the garage; one garage became my husband woodworking shop, the second one stores a few things and an ongoing bench project. Hopefully, in Spring all will be clean and clear. The good thing about the garage is that it has the doors on the side of the house, so no big doors facing the street. I'm really not a fan of garage doors being the largest portion of the facade.

I've never been a fan of garages facing the street that dominate the front of a house...something not uncommon here in SoCal. The front of the house is often garage, driveway, and very little front yard area. One of the things I like about our new home is the attached garage faces the backyard. The house is set a nice distance back from the street, so we have plenty of front lawn. We have a circular driveway with a long driveway down one side that goes to the garage and parking area in back. Been waiting a long time for that!

I really dislike garages as the first glimpse of a house, often blocking the entire streets ape of an otherwise lovely home, and ruining the ambience of a road. It's as though one is walking (or driving) down a back lane way. But I guess people need a place for a workshop and storage and laundry facilities....and cars if they fit after everything is is stuffed in the garage. What about the back yard shed, or storage in the house instead of copious rooms. The English used to have box rooms. Bring them back instead of 4 bathrooms! Basically most homes are too big, or the property is too small, for our needs.

@chloebud, I used to live in the Bay Area, so I know what you are referring to. It was funny to see the entry doors skinnier than a normal door so that the house seemed larger:) Front yards were nonexistent, the garage size was considered as part of the advertised home square footage, prices astronomic for a house that was barely acceptable.

I wish mine were bigger...just fits my '95 Bimmer :0( Reminds me of the "Operation" game trying to drive in! haha

Gripe about garages in general...I hate how so many new builds make them a huge focal point as you pull in! Why make such a utilitarian structure Front & Center? Put them out back where they belong.

Here's mine...This must have been in the middle of a particularly dry Summer! My yard looks 100% bewtter these days!

My gripe about my American garage: it's detached and unheated.
My gripe about my European garage: the stone wall/stairs on the right side of the exit. It's on the left if you back out and the clearance is less than a foot, which makes for such a claustrophobic feel that we back in and drive out.

No matter how big it is, it's never big enough.

Geckos and black widow spiders, we have both.

Al, you said just what I was thinking! We have a two car garage that's taken up with a large tool bench, sports equipment, unfinished with projects, etc. *sigh*

I have a three car side entry garage that is attached to my house by a mudroom which is attached to my kitchen. I do not like front entry garages as it overwhelms the house and I like the entry from the garage close to the kitchen so you don't have to go tromping through the hose with bags of groceries.

My biggest gripe…we don't have one!

i severely dislike having the freeking garage on the front of the house where it's the biggest thing you see!

i'm sorry, i'm coming to your house to see YOU, not your CAR. i could care less about your damn car.

It is full of stuff and no room for the cars.

printesa, I know what you mean when it comes to the Bay Area. Crazy prices!!!

We've always used our garage for cars. There's still plenty of junk but somehow always managed room for the cars.

Bay Area prices are insane! And the whole thing is overcrowded, dirty, too much traffic, etc. etc. ad nauseum. I won't live there again, not by choice anyway.

Charlee, I know what you mean, We moved there in 2000 (job) and lived there for 6 years..all I could think of was where can we move? We were blessed to have the possibility to work from wherever we wanted and when that showed up, we didn't think twice. It's true that I could have never afforded something decent there (800K gets you something small that needs everything replaced and no yard). The overall landscape of the area is boring (just my opinion) and there is really nothing attractive there. I lived in Montreal for one year and I would have gone there if I had the chance,,that is a beautiful city, even though the winter is pretty rough.

printesa, if you can work wherever you want, move to the San Joaquin valley, I live in Tracy and it's like small town America. No one honks at you, people go out of their way to be polite and there aren't any lines in any store, even now!

However, you must love the HEAT because last year we hit 116F!

Design…..to me you should not see your garage doors from the street.

Charlee, heat is my enemy:) I don't even want to visit Florida because of it:) I grew up in Europe where we had 4 seasons, with winters that were pretty cold (temperature would go sometimes at -30C) and summers were mild. Whenever we get here high temperatures I feel like I have no air. I love small towns btw

Easy laundry room in garage and worst is washer and dryer are not even next to each other. Ignore mess hah. House made 1960s.