Last month, we explored ways of
stuffing a two-car garage into the
front of a house on a narrow lot. In
this article, I'll look at what happens
when you get rid of the attached
garage, then focus on reinterpreting a
popular narrow-lot home design
(Figure 1).
We saw that garages in front can
overwhelm the scale of the house and
even the street. Narrow driveways
leading to garages at the rear, rear
alleys serving backyard garages, or (in
more urban settings) no garages at
all, are a better answer. Putting the
parking or garage at the back lets the
house present itself to the street, per -
haps with a porch. This creates an
inviting and friendly