Everyone has to start somewhere and, for me, that ended up being when I decided to build a garage on my property.
It all began in 2022, my wife and I are expecting our first child and we are quickly running out of space in our little two bedroom, one bath, converted cottage. There is simply no more room to put stuff so we went through our options. First idea was to build an addition on the house but due to site restrictions and the design of the house, we would be better off starting from scratch which was not in our budget. We thought about digging out the crawlspace into a full basement but the potential for creating/dealing with foundation issues and the noise while when we had a newborn put this idea lower on the list. What provides a lot of storage space and wouldn’t interrupt our newborn sleeping? A garage!
Now I could have built a simple garage that we could park a car in and store some of our stuff but I had bigger plans that would not only add valuable storage space to our property and allow us to park the cars out of the weather, but create an entire new living area that is nearly the same size as our house!