I’m looking for any ideas on what you guys have seen or done with a converted single car attached (1947 bungalow) garage in respect to it not looking like a converted garage from the outside.
I know its difficult to achieve especially if the driveway leads right up the the now absent garage door but what are some creative alternatives?
I’m not partial to a big picture window, or any window for that matter. I thought maybe a dormer on the roof? Creative trim?
Let the ideas flow!!
Thanks
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Could you post a pic? Some of us are more visual thinkers.
this is the best I have at the moment, the garage is on the far right, the windows next to the garage with the glass bathroom blocks have been removed and re-framed for a smaller double-hung. And there is a roof over the porch now.
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take a sep back and picture the whole thing. Too much left to the imaination there.
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Jeez Pif, I'd figured you could imagine some sort of idea.
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I'm not sure if this will help either. thats the garage
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First, extend the porch wall across the walk (visually) by making some low wall or planter(s) or something, and place porch funriture in there as a terrace of sorts, or planters and make it a gasrden of sorts. Basically, make the driveway visually stop well short of the house.
second, a dormer above, and maybe a bumpout with some windows (I know, you don't want windows) would be very helpful.
In leiu of windows perhaps a bumpout of sorts with a trellis/arbor treatment would be trick. This is what the designers get the bucks for!
Without a pic, thats all I can say....Jake Gulick
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In leiu of windows perhaps a bumpout of sorts with a trellis/arbor treatment would be trick
I never thought of that, despite all of my thinking!! That could work. Excellnet idea.
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I saw a house recently where vinyl siding was installed vertically rather than horizontally in the garage door area.As a realtor I see a lot of houses where the garage has been turned into either a family room or a bedroom. One school of thought is to do whatever you like during your ownership, but leave things in such a way that when you sell the home the next owner will be able to somewhat easily convert things back to a garage if he or she chooses.
A couple of bowling lanes
a pool for platform diving
maybe a small movie theater
Oh, all right. Kind of hard to judge without seeing the new porch, but liked the idea about extending the porch wall and getting into some landscaping. I agree, limiting the amount of driveway next to the house is necessary. An alternative to trying to 'blend in' with the existing building might be to go the other way. Make something purposely different. Funk it up. Maybe use wood screen walls (thin 2" x 2" slats mounted horizontally) to enclose the area. It makes the area private from the outside, but still lets you see beyond (think mini-blinds). Don't know about the dormer concept though. There aren't any others and the roof pitch seems low (maybe a forced idea?).
Tried to attach an image to help describe what I meant, will see if it goes through.
You may not want to add more work to the project, but...
Reframe the roof to do away with the attached garage look. Probably too late because it looks like you already have a flat roof over your new porch.
I might have changed the roof line to incorporate the porch and while doing that, increased the pitch. I think a flat roof porch added to a low pitch roof just looks like a low budget backyard shack add on.
Or, over the garage you could rotate the roof 90 degrees and have the gable face forward. You could draw up a different pitch on that part to see how it might look.
What's that tyvek'd gable in the background?
Thats the new 2 story addition.
the garage is a 6.5/12 (as is the whole house).
The porch has the same pitch roof tying into the existing roof
The house is not yet finished.
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not to derail your thread, but I'd love to see a shot of the finished porch.
Our place came with the slider (was the sales office for the subdivision - 40 yrs ago - and never converted back). We DID apply the jackhammer to part of the driveway, which helped immensely! What doesn't show is the patio in front of the french doors under the grape arbor (faces West - NEED the shade in the summer!).