Clopay Coachman Collection insulated steel carriage house garage doors, Design 12 with REC13 windows, painted white.
Inspiration for a large beach style attached two-car garage in Cincinnati.

Mid-sized transitional attached two-car garage in Toronto.

A tea pot, being a vessel, is defined by the space it contains, it is not the tea pot that is important, but the space. Crispin Sartwell Located on a lake outside of Milwaukee, the Vessel House is the culmination of an intense 5 year collaboration with our client and multiple local craftsmen focused on the creation of a modern analogue to the Usonian Home. As with most residential work, this home is a direct reflection of it’s owner, a highly educated art collector with a passion for music, fine furniture, and architecture. His interest in authenticity drove the material selections such as masonry, copper, and white oak, as well as the need for traditional methods of construction. The initial diagram of the house involved a collection of embedded walls that emerge from the site and create spaces between them, which are covered with a series of floating rooves. The windows provide natural light on three sides of the house as a band of clerestories, transforming to a floor to ceiling ribbon of glass on the lakeside. The Vessel House functions as a gallery for the owner’s art, motorcycles, Tiffany lamps, and vintage musical instruments – offering spaces to exhibit, store, and listen. These gallery nodes overlap with the typical house program of kitchen, dining, living, and bedroom, creating dynamic zones of transition and rooms that serve dual purposes allowing guests to relax in a museum setting. Through it’s materiality, connection to nature, and open planning, the Vessel House continues many of the Usonian principles Wright advocated for. Overview Oconomowoc, WI Completion Date August 2015 Services Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture

Inspiration for a garage in Denver.

Photo of a mid-sized traditional attached three-car carport in Salt Lake City.

Photo: Robert Burns ˙© 2015 Houzz
This is an example of an industrial garage in Portland.

Design ideas for a mid-sized detached two-car carport in Marseille.

Photo of a large modern detached two-car carport in Paris.

Design Consultant Jeff Doubét is the author of Creating Spanish Style Homes: Before & After – Techniques – Designs – Insights. The 240 page “Design Consultation in a Book” is now available. Please visit SantaBarbaraHomeDesigner.com for more info. Jeff Doubét specializes in Santa Barbara style home and landscape designs. To learn more info about the variety of custom design services I offer, please visit SantaBarbaraHomeDesigner.com Jeff Doubét is the Founder of Santa Barbara Home Design - a design studio based in Santa Barbara, California USA.

Rosedale ‘PARK’ is a detached garage and fence structure designed for a residential property in an old Toronto community rich in trees and preserved parkland. Located on a busy corner lot, the owner’s requirements for the project were two fold: 1) They wanted to manage views from passers-by into their private pool and entertainment areas while maintaining a connection to the ‘park-like’ public realm; and 2) They wanted to include a place to park their car that wouldn’t jeopardize the natural character of the property or spoil one’s experience of the place. The idea was to use the new garage, fence, hard and soft landscaping together with the existing house, pool and two large and ‘protected’ trees to create a setting and a particular sense of place for each of the anticipated activities including lounging by the pool, cooking, dining alfresco and entertaining large groups of friends. Using wood as the primary building material, the solution was to create a light, airy and luminous envelope around each component of the program that would provide separation without containment. The garage volume and fence structure, framed in structural sawn lumber and a variety of engineered wood products, are wrapped in a dark stained cedar skin that is at once solid and opaque and light and transparent. The fence, constructed of staggered horizontal wood slats was designed for privacy but also lets light and air pass through. At night, the fence becomes a large light fixture providing an ambient glow for both the private garden as well as the public sidewalk. Thin striations of light wrap around the interior and exterior of the property. The wall of the garage separating the pool area and the parked car is an assembly of wood framed windows clad in the same fence material. When illuminated, this poolside screen transforms from an edge into a nearly transparent lantern, casting a warm glow by the pool. The large overhang gives the area by the by the pool containment and sense of place. It edits out the view of adjacent properties and together with the pool in the immediate foreground frames a view back toward the home’s family room. Using the pool as a source of light and the soffit of the overhang a reflector, the bright and luminous water shimmers and reflects light off the warm cedar plane overhead. All of the peripheral storage within the garage is cantilevered off of the main structure and hovers over native grade to significantly reduce the footprint of the building and minimize the impact on existing tree roots. The natural character of the neighborhood inspired the extensive use of wood as the projects primary building material. The availability, ease of construction and cost of wood products made it possible to carefully craft this project. In the end, aside from its quiet, modern expression, it is well-detailed, allowing it to be a pragmatic storage box, an elevated roof 'garden', a lantern at night, a threshold and place of occupation poolside for the owners. Photo: Bryan Groulx

Garage in New York.

The home features an oversized three car garage with rear doors and space for a large workshop.
Photo of an expansive transitional attached four-car garage in Indianapolis.

GARAGE STORAGE TO KEEP YOU ORGANIZED Are you looking to transform the cluttered state of your garage? With modular storage or custom-fit cabinet systems, Garage Living of Texas can help you succeed in getting your garage organized and functional. There are a multitude of color, style, and component design combinations to choose from to fit your exact needs and tastes. All of our cabinet systems are built from high-quality steel to withstand the rigours of your garage. That sturdy construction also comes sleekly designed, enhancing the aesthetic value of your garage. Slatwall panels are ideal for organization and they also provide a finished look for your garage. The cellular foam PVC construction has a durable finish that protects your walls and there are numerous organizers to get your items off the floor and neatly organized on the wall.

Contemporary garage in San Francisco.

3 car garage attached to home by a long covered walkway adds more livable usable space to the home built on a narrow lot.
Photo of a mid-sized traditional detached three-car garage in Philadelphia.

Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional attached one-car garage in Calgary.

Trent Bell
Photo of a modern garage in Portland Maine.

Carriage Garage Door Inspiration
This is an example of an expansive modern attached three-car garage in Philadelphia.

Architecture and Construction by Rock Paper Hammer. Photography by Andrew Hyslop.
This is an example of a large midcentury attached three-car garage in Louisville.