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Garage: Reinventing the Place We Park

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We all know friends, neighbours and co-workers who have everything in their garage except the family car. The car usually gets booted out the door in favour of lawn furniture and equipment, camping supplies, and anything else that comes along.

In this book, the reader will find a variety of uses for the garage over and above "a place to stash the useful and useless odds and ends." Personally, I liked the greenhouse and studio ideas, but there are others here, too, such as the soundstage that would excite the teen-aged musician in the family, and a playroom to keep younger children amused for hours.

This is one of the first books I have seen on garages and it has some excellent ideas. With over fifty concepts contained here, the book has something to please every lifestyle and virtually every taste. The reader is only limited by their budget, but many of the ideas can be scaled down or expanded upon depending on the financial resources available.

This book and the great mass of the photos relate not to the garage, ie, a covered space where cars are stored or where a hobbyist workshop is located, but converted space or living space above a garage. If you're interested in creative garage layout, workshop arrangement, automobile-related storage, etc., this is not the book. If your desire is to turn a hardworking garage into a granny flat, this is for you.

Kira Obolensky finally gives the garage its due as a room with potential far beyond its obvious use in her beautifully photographed, straight-forwardly written book. Great source of inspiration for anyone looking to eke out an extra room or anyone who enjoys spending time in his garage. Fun gift for lovers of architecture, home and style as well as garageophiles (my realtor says it's the #1 room for most men). But beware: your own garage will likely feel inadequate after you peruse these handsome pages.

This book shares the strengths and weaknesses of the ...companion volume, At Work At Home. Gorgeous pictures, fabulous ideas, imaginative re-creations, but precious little for the average homeowner who says, well the garage is a place to park cars but what can I do in the way of storage, etc., to make it more functional. As with the other book, architects tend to dominate and our particular situation, the basement level garage with living space over it, is not covered.

In addition to offering a wide variety of ideas on how to transform a garage, this book presents some stunning photographs of famous garages (e.g., Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley), workplace garages, garages used purely for leisure/recreation, and even interesting twists on garages used for plain old storage. The author does a great job mixing useful advice on transforming a garage (both interior and exterior) with coffee table-style photos and text celebrating some unique examples drawn from all across the U.S. Something for everyone - definitely recommended.

The book is almost nothing about the garage you already own. It is about fancy buildings with garage doors to use as offices, dwellings, exhibit spaces, furniture factories, archtectural statements. If you want to keep your car dry, you will need to build another real garage.

If I had the money I would love to have a garage like most of the ones shown in the book. Well there are actually quite a few cheaper ones, and the book does give a person quite a few ideas what a garage can be made into or used for. The only thing I didn't like about the book is that it doesn't get into the really nitty gritty construction type stuff, telling you exactally how to build certain things. Then again maybe it was a good idea to exclude that kind of stuff. If you are looking for a book on how to build for small spaces buy the book Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home by Azby Brown, which shows how the Japanese make use of every inch (cm) of space.

This book is beautifully photographed and the scope is enormous. The author covers an enormous variety of handsome solutions to storage and leisure time which actually become an historic perspective. Taunton Press actually publish Fine Homebuilding magazine and I wish there had been more floor plans. This is not a "how to" book but rather a photographic essay. Perhaps, they will add a website or link in future editions for readers who might want to build such garages.

Tons of ideas for transforming your garage into usable creative space. I'm interested in turning a garage into an artist studio....lots of good ideas here.

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