San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07
BUILDING GARAGE
AS PART OF HOUSE
x NOW ADVOCATED
No Excuse for Its Being
Set Way Off From
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While there were innumerable rea-
sons. why the stable should be placed
at the extreme end of the garden, IN
that time when We used horse-drawn
vehicles, those same reasons do not
hold good now that We use autcl1o-
biles as n means oA locomotion. Auc
because this is tue, why i'll the name
of good sense should we not build
the garage as a part OF the house
uniti To my mind this is unanswer-
able.
feel that the garage should be in
corporated in the house plans, and so
be a part of the architectural beauty
of the ensemble.
The house in the corner of the lot,
the garage off in another corner, the
| driveway trailing off after the garage,
does not seen sensible, even if beau
! " were not to be considered at all.
But beauty should play a large part
in the planning of each home and its
surroundings.
There are a number of economical
arguments for building the garage as
a part of the house, if the arguments
of beauty and good taste should fail.
The practicability of heating the
| garage from the house heating plant
| at a distance is nil, the running of
pipes under the ground below the frost
| line is expensive and not advisable. To
heat the garage separately is not
feasible, but when the garage is n
part of the house, the heating problem
vanishes. In this way many feet of
pipe is saved the labor of laying the
same, which is no small item of ex-
pense, is also done away with.
Besides the expense Of pipe, laying
it, Ms insulation, there will be the
saving Of the extra wall, both material
and labor, to say nothing of the labor
Of making the long driveway.
When building the garage in con-
nection with the main building, one
is confronted with higher Insurance.
rates, and many times one is influ'
enced by that to build the garage
/, separately. But il both sides were
, carefully considered. am sure from
monetary standpoint one would
decide against the unattached
garage. Even though it were neces'
) sary TO build a dividing wall of fire
proof construction between the
. garage and the house proper. still
e the saving in labor and materials
t would outweigh the cost of the fire
!. proof wall.
g Place in one column the cost Of
S the fireproof wall. and possibly 8
d roof of more solid construction. anC
> in the other the cost of pipe. labor
e Of laying it. insulation. masonry
n plumbing. heating. the material ant
% labor of an extra wall. and the road
:. way. and when considered in thi
is practical light. the attached will b,
;. found the most profitable from man!
sides.
From the standpoint of beauty
what could be more attractive thar
e an attached garage balancing ri
!, one side. he inclosed norch on th
~ other side Of house of Colonial dc
sign? If the house u of the WINGS
u type. why not extend the wings back
D. ward. placing the garage in one win
and the kitchen in the other? whei
one is building in n billy country.
the house is planned for n hill sid,
nj building the garage in the hasemer
W will he found satisfactory and will i
W no manner change the outside aspeC
1t OF the house.
n One advartago which aDneaIs (
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