Photo of a mid-sized country detached barn in Santa Barbara.

Trotter Overhead Door Garage and Home of Edmond and the Oklahoma City area is a full service garage door company locally owned and operated by Jesse and Tina Trotter. We offer Garage Doors, Glass Garage Doors & Garage Door Repairs.

Photo of a mid-sized modern attached two-car garage in Houston.

Design ideas for a large traditional attached two-car carport in Bridgeport.

With the intention of creating a ‘dark jewel’ to give space for work, children’s play and practising yoga. Neil Dusheiko used clear burnt cedar – Dento Yakisugi in a ‘hit one miss one’ system creating natural yet mysterious vibes in the garden area. Using traditional Japanese techniques Shou Sugi Ban makes the cladding resistant to rot and fire. The finish on the cladding can only be controlled so much; this allows the texture, colour and grain to show their true character. The carbon finish can’t be affected by sunlight as it is a colourless element. Inside the studio they have used a light in colour birch plywood. This gives a brilliant contrast to the exterior. Especially at night when the black dissipates and the 2 large windows let a warm glow filter over the garden. www.shousugiban.co.uk venetia@exteriorsolutionsltd.co.uk 01494 291 033 Photographer - Agnese Sanvito

Photo of a mid-sized country detached barn in Birmingham.

Large traditional attached three-car workshop in Calgary.

D. Beilman, Private Stowe Alpine Family Retreat
Small arts and crafts detached barn in Boston.

© Tricia Shay
Inspiration for a contemporary attached two-car carport in Milwaukee.

Artistic Closet Design
Design ideas for a mid-sized industrial attached two-car garage in Orlando.

Design ideas for a traditional shed and granny flat in New York.

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

Jim Bartsch Photography
This is an example of a modern attached garage in Santa Barbara.

Photo of a large traditional detached garage in New York.

Steel Cabinetry and metal backsplash. Checkered tile flooring. Garage Solutions, Inc.
This is an example of a large contemporary attached three-car workshop in San Francisco.

Inspiration for an arts and crafts three-car porte cochere in Portland.

Photography by Susan Teare
Photo of a country barn in New York.

Design ideas for a traditional shed and granny flat in Orlando.

Technical design, engineering, design, site cooridnation, fabrication, and installation by David A. Glover of Xtreme Garages (704) 965-2400. Photography by Joesph Hilliard www.josephhilliard.com (574) 294-5366