slo’s MONDAY 8/25 poll - Attached vs Detached Garage

[Babs Johnson]

I live in a city row house without a garage. Street parking can be a hassle and you need to pay for a residential sticker to avoid being ticketed and towed. We pay to park in a multi story garage two blocks away. It’s open to the public but about 75% of the spaces are for monthly renters. I used to live in a downtown condo high rise and also paid for parking in their garage.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Interesting - I don't think I've ever seen a house with an attached garage that didn't have a door to the house. Seems like a strange design choice.

My grandparents built their home like that in the 1950's. In the garage, there was a door out to a covered concrete patio ( very small) and then into the door to the kitchen. The only thing the "patio" was ever used for was firewood storage. Decks and patios were not a thing at all when I was a kid.
Entertaining was on/in a porch yard and park.

 

[tvguy]

Interesting - I don't think I've ever seen a house with an attached garage that didn't have a door to the house. Seems like a strange design choice.

My parents house had no door into the house, as I posted above. Custom home built in 1960 by a builder who built a lot of the homes in the area. I don't think any of the houses he built had a door into the house. Different era. It had a back door, something a lot of new homes no longer have. It also had sliding doors from the Family Room and the Living room into the backyard, so three ways to get out of the back of the house, one out the front, but no direct door into the garage.

 

[AppleDumpling]

My relatives had an attached garage but there was no interior entry door to the house. You still had to come in the front door.

Interesting - I don't think I've ever seen a house with an attached garage that didn't have a door to the house. Seems like a strange design choice.

It’s very common here in the NY suburbs, and what most homes have. The majority of these houses were built post-WWII, in the late 1940’s and 50’s, into the 60’s. The house I grew up in was like that, a single narrow attached garage with no room for a door. Some people had longer attached garages that extended a bit in the back for a workshop or storage area and those often had a door to walk out to the backyard. Mostly only older homes have detached garages, at the back of the property.

LOL, we didn’t have an electric garage door opener until probably the late 70’s. So you had to pull into the driveway, stop the car, get out of the car and manually open the roll-up garage door (locked with a key), then get back in the car and pull into the garage. Then get out of the car and garage, close the garage door behind you, and enter the house through the front door.

 

[tvguy]

It’s very common here in the NY suburbs, and what most homes have. The majority of these houses were built post-WWII, in the late 1940’s and 50’s, into the 60’s. The house I grew up in was like that, a single narrow attached garage with no room for a door. Some people had longer attached garages that extended a bit in the back for a workshop or storage area and those often had a door to walk out to the backyard. Mostly only older homes have detached garages, at the back of the property.

LOL, we didn’t have an electric garage door opener until probably the late 70’s. So you had to pull into the driveway, stop the car, get out of the car and manually open the roll-up garage door (locked with a key), then get back in the car and pull into the garage. Then get out of the car and garage, close the garage door behind you, and enter the house through the front door.

Also, the dimensions of garages vary. I have what is considered to be a 2 car garage and it is 20 by 20. My parents two car garage was 25 x 25, with a small room stick out further in one corner where the water well, pump and water storage tank were. There is no water district there so every home has it's own domestic water well.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

, we didn’t have an electric garage door opener until probably the late 70’s. So you had to pull into the driveway, stop the car, get out of the car and manually open the roll-up garage door (locked with a key), then get back in the car and pull into the garage. Then get out of the car and garage, close the garage door behind you, and enter the house through the front door.

Dang you were decades ahead of my mom's house. It was my esteemed duty to get out and open the garage door using the one handle in the middle of the door . It wasn't until the early 2000s that my mom got a door opener although she was quite late to the game compared to others.


But at least it was entry directly into the house from the garage (house built in the '60s).

 

[amcnj]

Growing up the houses in my neighborhood were mainly built in the 1920’s and 1930’s. They all had a single detached garage, often set back near the end of the property too.

The houses I have owned were built after 1985 and came with attached garages with an inner entry door into the house too.

The above mentions of garage door openers made me recall my first experience with them. In the 1970’s friends of the family moved from our town to an area where new houses were being built. These homes had garage door openers. When we visited them we observed that when their neighbor across the street raised or lowered their garage door, the tv in our friends’ house would change channels! We didn’t own a tv with a remote so all of this was unfamiliar to me.

 

[marthachick]

When we had our house built an attached garage was a priority.

 

[Skippyboo]

House I grew up in no garage at all. So when I bought my house, garage was a must. Have a 2 car garage but just 1 car. So other side is storage plus lawnmower, garbage bin. Don’t have a basement and the attic isn’t really convenient for storage with the pull down stairs.

Enjoy not having to scrape the windshield in winter

 

[rndmr2]

Our previous house and current house (We moved there in May) both have attached garages. The prior house was a raised ranch and the garage was under the bedrooms. In our current house the garage is next to the house. We go out the kitchen door to the garage and down a few steps to get to the car. This is really convenient.

 

[Skippy918]

It’s very common here in the NY suburbs, and what most homes have. The majority of these houses were built post-WWII, in the late 1940’s and 50’s, into the 60’s. The house I grew up in was like that, a single narrow attached garage with no room for a door. Some people had longer attached garages that extended a bit in the back for a workshop or storage area and those often had a door to walk out to the backyard. Mostly only older homes have detached garages, at the back of the property.

LOL, we didn’t have an electric garage door opener until probably the late 70’s. So you had to pull into the driveway, stop the car, get out of the car and manually open the roll-up garage door (locked with a key), then get back in the car and pull into the garage. Then get out of the car and garage, close the garage door behind you, and enter the house through the front door.

They live on Long Island.

 

[tvguy]

Growing up the houses in my neighborhood were mainly built in the 1920’s and 1930’s. They all had a single detached garage, often set back near the end of the property too.

The houses I have owned were built after 1985 and came with attached garages with an inner entry door into the house too.

The above mentions of garage door openers made me recall my first experience with them. In the 1970’s friends of the family moved from our town to an area where new houses were being built. These homes had garage door openers. When we visited them we observed that when their neighbor across the street raised or lowered their garage door, the tv in our friends’ house would change channels! We didn’t own a tv with a remote so all of this was unfamiliar to me.

We lived under the flight paths of two Air Force Bases in the 1960s (10 miles apart) and those early garage door openers were sometimes triggered to open by electronics on the planes flying over. .

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

I live in a condo with assigned parking in the locked, basement garage, included. Works for me! I've never lived in a house, only condos or apartments. I've always had a parking spot included as long as I've had a car.