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Posted by RobertPatrick on June 10, 2008, 9:53 pm
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>> We are looking at expanding our living space in our home here in west
>> central Florida and we are faced with two main options.... adding on
>> to our home following the roof line and construction of the house, or
>> closing in the two car garage, making it living space and adding a
>> detacted garage. We're not sure of the advantages either way so we
>> thought we'd pop it out here for the experts to chime in :O)
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>> The house is basically a simple gable roof line runnin parallel with
>> the road with an "L shape where the small leg of the "L" is the two
>> car garage facing forward on the right side of the house. We were
>> considering extending the gable towards the right, past the garage
>> and make the new rooms in this area. This would just continue the
>> main gable roof further and since the garage roof intersects the
>> front of the existing gable it shouldn't impact the garage area at
>> all. This also leaves the master bathroom connections where they are
>> so there should be no plumbing impact.
>>
>> The second option is to block in the front garage door and turn the
>> garage into additional living space. Then build a detacted garage to
>> the right of the existing garage and since it's detacted, wouldn't
>> impact the central house. One consideration here is the existing
>> garage 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 that
>> there might be a moisture issue in the garage (we're thinking the
>> walls would have to be sealed good). Plus the garage walls are block
>> so there isn't really any insullation in there.
>>
>> We're a little leaning towards the extension of the main house but we
>> figured we're not experts so thought there might be something we're
>> overlooking.
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> How about posting some pictures of the existing house so we can get a
> better idea of what you're talking about. I've seen several attached
> garages that have been converted to living space and I didn't like the
> way they turned out. Maybe it was because they were done on a low
> budget, but it was always obvious from the outside that there was a
> garage at one time. Maybe they were done with the intention of having
> the option to convert back to a garage.
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> Check out what others have done in your neighborhood. Check out the
> ones that look like they have been added on to against the ones that
> don't look like an addition has been made.
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Adding on and you should marry the roof lines. Don't know how expensive
that would be.
Converted garages tend to look like converted garages.
A detached garage isn't wanted by most people.
You have a one story or two? A neighbor built a partial 2nd floor. It
looks good. It looks like a split level.(if you like split levels). But
for the original house what they did looks good.
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