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As part of my Karma Buying Process
I'm also doing a home remodel. Actually, the remodel came first—in fact, I had intended to do some of this when I bought the house 9.5 years ago—but the garage changes in particular became necessary to hold a third, larger car. (I have one relatively small car, and my girlfriend has one very small car, though we can't put both in the garage at the moment due to it being cluttered-up with Other Stuff, but she still Wants Her Independence and has an apartment of her own anyway, so I have not had to clean it out yet.
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Anyway, now that I've had the architect and contractor and a structural engineer come look at the place, it turns out I have to basically knock down and completely rebuild the garage and den / extra-bedroom / office space (which I use as an office, but it's flexible, the problem is that it was just kind of shoddily slapped together probably 20 or 30 years ago over top of what used to be a carport, and the reason it gets so hot and cold in the summer and winter is that it's basically uninsulated, poorly constructed, and so on).
The remodel estimate is coming in at a bit more than 3x the price of the car ... and that was before today's discovery, that the whole back section needs to be demolished, new footings poured, and so on. So now I'm wondering if anyone has particular suggestions regarding garage space. The only particular thing I've suggested is a storage closet area for winter tires+wheels.
(Edit to add: the previous design was constrained by "expand in place", but if we are doing knock-down-rebuild there, we lose the constraints. Hence the question...)
Anyway, now that I've had the architect and contractor and a structural engineer come look at the place, it turns out I have to basically knock down and completely rebuild the garage and den / extra-bedroom / office space (which I use as an office, but it's flexible, the problem is that it was just kind of shoddily slapped together probably 20 or 30 years ago over top of what used to be a carport, and the reason it gets so hot and cold in the summer and winter is that it's basically uninsulated, poorly constructed, and so on).
The remodel estimate is coming in at a bit more than 3x the price of the car ... and that was before today's discovery, that the whole back section needs to be demolished, new footings poured, and so on. So now I'm wondering if anyone has particular suggestions regarding garage space. The only particular thing I've suggested is a storage closet area for winter tires+wheels.
(Edit to add: the previous design was constrained by "expand in place", but if we are doing knock-down-rebuild there, we lose the constraints. Hence the question...)