Home Addition or Detacted Garage?????????

infiniteMPG · 2008-06-10T20:18:37+00:00

We are looking at expanding our living space in our home here in westcentral Florida and we are faced with two main options.... adding onto our home following the roof line and construction of the house, orclosing in the two car garage, making it living space and adding adetacted garage. We're not sure of the advantages either way so wethought we'd pop it out here for the experts to chime in :O)The house is basically a simple gable roof line runnin parallel withthe road with an "L shape where the small leg of the "L" is the twocar garage facing forward on the right side of the house. We wereconsidering extending the gable towards the right, past the garage andmake the new rooms in this area. This would just continue the maingable roof further and since the garage roof intersects the front ofthe existing gable it shouldn't impact the garage area at all. Thisalso leaves the master bathroom connections where they are so thereshould be no plumbing impact.The second option is to block in the front garage door and turn thegarage into additional living space. Then build a detacted garage tothe right of the existing garage and since it's detacted, wouldn'timpact the central house. One consideration here is the existinggarage floor is dropped lower then the rest of the house (about 6")and we're conserned if we just block in the front garage door thatthere might be a moisture issue in the garage (we're thinking thewalls would have to be sealed good). Plus the garage walls are blockso there isn't really any insullation in there.We're a little leaning towards the extension of the main house but wefigured we're not experts so thought there might be something we'reoverlooking.Thanks for your assistance!

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infiniteMPG 18 years ago

We're getting ready to re-do all the siding, too. So if we make the garage into living space then the siding would cover the existing garage front as well as the patched over garage door and it should be seamless.

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