A co-worker just sent this picture to me. Since my driveway is almost but not quite as steep as this one it gave me a chuckle. It also reminded me of a gripe that I have with new home design. It seems that what folks will do with vehicles is always an afterthought.

I’ve seen a few houses designed lately that have a third garage door that is only about six feet wide. This is the intended storage space for lawn mowers, bicycles and other things that you would like to have in a garage but you either leave a car outside to do so or you build a utility shed to house them. Unfortunately I’ve only seen these on upper end homes.

For the life of me I can’t understand why more thought isn’t given to the garage. All too often the garage is too small to get in and out of anything larger than a subcompact and the driveway is a nightmare to negotiate. Like the picture here all too often I see excessively steep driveways or a side entry garage with no room to turn into the garage.

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  By Francis Adrias, 9/20/2005 @ 11:26 am

  Just wondering where this photo was taken
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  By Larry D. Burton, 9/21/2005 @ 5:31 am

  I have no idea. It was sent to my co-worker by a friend of his and probably sent to him by a friend of his.

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