Then there's the growth in popularity of sport utility vehicles, which require wider garages. Garages are being used as a recycling center. And, they are still used as workshops and as potting areas by gardeners. Some of the garages are high enough to put storage shelving in and hang bikes from ceilings. Many of Country Classics' floor plans include an area above the garage that can be utilized as living space or storage accessible from the second floor of the home.
Some people finish it off and make it part of the home.
It's an inexpensive way to add living space compared to having to add onto the foundation in order to build out. And it gives them another nice room in the master bedroom suite. Buyers who add a half of a garage often put in a pedestrian door as an additional entrance, saving wear and tear on automatic garage-door openers and allowing children to go in and out for bikes and sporting equipment without opening an overhead door and exposing the contents of the garage to moisture and bad weather. Country Classics is starting another phase of it development, which is across the street from the Amsterdam Elementary School, with a projected opening in January. The first phase of the project, the Paddocks, is almost sold out.