Do you use your home garage to put your car in?

Do you use your garage as a place to park your car?

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Masquerouge

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I've noticed this a lot, and in at least two countries (France and the US): having a garage is usually a big selling point in a house, yet 95% of the houses I've visited, the garage was used as a store room and NEVER to put the car in it at night. People just park in the driveway.

So, if you own a home with a garage (or your family does), is it used for its intended purpose, meaning putting a car in it?

My suspicion is that people would be a lot better off getting one more room than a garage. Particularly bad are those million-dollar houses near where I live that each have a 4-car garage right in front of the house, totally ruining it IMO.

Poll is coming.
 
Masquerouge said:
Personally, for the same house size, I would be more interested in having one more bedroom than a freaking garage.
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Yeah, but when I was buying my house I had to consider the needs/wants/considerations of the market, and not you.

It's easier to sell a house with a garage - plus they are worth more. Above a certain price range - a garage is a must.

My house has 3 bedrooms and 3 stories anyway, there's more than enough room for 1 guy. I even use one of the bedrooms as a storage room right now, my garage is mostly empty.
 
Oh this is a crazy thing for Americans, (and it has been true in many different parts of the country, I've seen it) and I agree it can get really, really annoying. If what you mean by that last part are so called "carriage houses" (there are some around in a lot of new developments even) then I also agree those are senseless and awful. There are of course people that have like 4-5 cars, some even old and run down, most often these are at more rural residences but still it is ridiculous clutter. My family has always kept cars in the garage, and it actually is very useful so you don't have to deal with winter weather and all. I intend to be just as responsible about that in the future whenever I would be living in my own house (and also I've never kept absolute tons of junk either, so it won't be that hard).
 
warpus said:
I agree that it's ridiculous, but if you're buying a house, you've got to play along with the sensibilities (or lack thereof) of the market.
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But what if everybody agree it's ridiculous? I have that ugly feeling that people get a garage just because they think that it will drive the price of the house up, even if they personally think it's ridiculous.

And so basically we have garages perpetuating themselves out of sheer sheep mentality - even though most people hate them!
 
We don't use garages in Ireland. Anyone who does is brandished a dirty yank and banished.
 
Masquerouge said:
But what if everybody agree it's ridiculous? I have that ugly feeling that people get a garage just because they think that it will drive the price of the house up, even if they personally think it's ridiculous.

And so basically we have garages perpetuating themselves out of sheer sheep mentality - even though most people hate them!
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Well, sure, but it doesn't matter.

When I was buying a house I had cetain things on my checklist that were must-haves: 3 bedrooms, garage, finished basement

Why? Because people looking for a house over a certain price are going to have that exact same checklist.

I don't mind having a garage either - I'll set up a workshop type thing there in the summer :)
 
Although my house has a massive garage big enough for two cars easy I dont park in it. Not because its full of junk - its not. But because I dont have an electric garage door opener and its just too much of a hassle to do it manually all the time.

If my neighborhood were being victimized by car break-ins I probably would start, but so far that hasnt happened.
 
MobBoss said:
Although my house has a massive garage big enough for two cars easy I dont park in it. Not because its full of junk - its not. But because I dont have an electric garage door opener and its just too much of a hassle to do it manually all the time.

If my neighborhood were being victimized by car break-ins I probably would start, but so far that hasnt happened.
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Was the garage an important part of why you bought the house?
 
I rent currently, so don't have a garage. When I did have a garage, I used it pretty much all of the time. Except on a few occasions when I had an unusual project going that I needed to garage space for.
 
When we did have one, and of what I can remember, yes, we did use the garij to put the car in.
 
Masquerouge said:
My suspicion is that people would be a lot better off getting one more room than a garage.
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My house does not have a garage. It used to, but the previous owners thought like you did and turned it into another bedroom & bathroom for the house.

Now, if I had a garage, I would likely park in it – especially in the winter so I wouldn’t have to scrape the ice off my windshield in the mornings. However it would also likely end up being my workshop, which could take precedence over icy windshields.
 
Rather than explain in full rant I'll just say simply that I hate car garages.

And no, there are no daily drivers in the two-car garage, it's full of snowmobiles and the occasional race car.
 
i don't have a garage....
 
One car in the garage, along with a full woodworking shop.
 
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