Garage Addition

When we decided to build our house we had a short list of absolute "must haves". One of those was a three car garage. Since the floor plan was custom deigned, it was really easy to tack on a third bay to the house and have it look like it fit with the rest of the plan. We'd make it a through-and-through (doors at the front and back of the third bay) and it would be awesome. Yep, we thought we were so clever.

We were so happy to be moving forward once the plan was complete that we started construction guns a blazin'! But, uhm, take a look at the space behind the third garage bay. Yeh, that BIG, EMPTY space. Well, we realized after we moved in that it gets NO sunlight. Not such a bad thing, except we had planned to plant a garden and some bushes and creeping vines back there.

Darn it!! Not feeling so clever anymore.

Fast forward to this week. After countless ideas for the space while developing our landscaping plan, we finally decided that the best idea is to add to the garage and enclose the whole space. So, this week I am having a contractor come and give me a quote for the project, including the price to add a bathroom to the garage (think about it...no one running in and out of the house to use the facilites when having a BBQ, or cleaning paintbrushes in the kitchen sink).

On the down side, this will seriously eat into my landscaping budget for this year. On the plus side, we will have a four car garage, and will be able to right an error our contractor made by putting a basement window in the wrong location.

Wish me luck! For once, I have zero clue about what a project will cost. Yikes.