No more wimp shelves. Time to go for the gusto. Open scale. The parameters are in the diagram. Ignore the doors shown. Submit in .jpg format 800 pixels wide.
Left side is 2nd car space and there is walking access.
Submit a write-up with your theme and specs. Be sure to specify your scale. Grades and curves must be consistent with equipment.
Deadline for submission: May 30th. Midnight.
Who won the last one??
vsmith
You state that the house door swings into the house, but it is drawn swinging into the garage. Would you clarify please?
Don Z.
Don, the exterior door swings into the garage as per code. The door to the house is drawn closed to save space.
Is this a detached garage? I’ve never seen an exterior door into a garage that was attached to a house…other than the overhead door. Can access through the exterior door be blocked since there is access to the layout area from the house door?
Don Z.
I’ve often seen doors like that. Might be regional?
I wish I had twelve feet to work with!
10’ wide seems pretty snug for a typical U.S. two car garage. Mine is 21’ x 21’ and there’s not a whole lot of room for both. Also, what kind of vehicles need to be worked around - Hummers or Smart Cars?
Really, I’ve almost never seen one that isn’t except on older (1960sish) houses. What I have never seen is a door that is more than 3" - 4" from one of the walls. I notice in MR layout contests always seem to put them 12" away (even the last MR magazine layout contest) so a small track holding shelf can be put there behind the door.
I think what Spacemouse means by “left side is 2nd car space” is that this is a 20x20 two car garage and the left half is a car space. That means that you can have an aisle off of the left side of the layout in the car space but you can’t build part of the layout there.
Q: If I have a 20 x 20 garage why would I chose the more restrictive side as the layout side? the car doesnt care.
I ask this because as is, my layout will not fit the given criteria as the door is in the way of my fiddleyard. Something I specificly avoided in my own layout construction where the access door was completely avoided.
If there is no provision for which side we can choose, I will sit this one out, I dont feel like redesigning what I already have spent a great deal of time planning and works well for me.
This is why I asked for a option for those of us intending on using our own layouts.
Okay take out the doors.
Thanks Chip, I’ll make sure to specify in my description that its a real existing space, and thats why it diverges from the rules in this regards.
Ah, that makes sense. I took the line on the left to be an exterior wall. So there’s only one vehicle that calls the garage home.
Edit: oops, just found the answers under the “plywood” contest thread.
Side garage entry doors are quite commom on attached garages. Although not a standard builders option they are put in. I specifically asked for one when we had our house built.
-G-
I wonder if that’s a “Up North” habit…I live in a subdivision with 550 homes, all built in the last 10 years and not a single one has an exterior door in the garage, other than the overhead door.
Don Z.
Might be state by state. I don’t have one in PA but they were in every garage in California.
As to comment that exterior doors do not lead from living quarters to garage space, I say nay. I live in central Texas, we have a standard 3’0" entry door going from house to garage.
With the standard entry door you have two holes pre-drilled, one for the deadbolt and one for the rotating, or lever action handle. I like this option, as if a bad guy broke into the garage, he would not be able to gain easy access to my home.
I am currently working on a garage layout, still drawing plans in 3rd Plan-It. Wanna look see??? drop me line.
Adios Wyatt
So, does this apply for everyone? Is the contest now 10x20 with the entry as the left side?
Yes, I changed it in the first post.