Houses, at least large ones, have
always had driveways, drive-up
entrances, and places to store vehicle,
but over the last 75 years or so vehicular
access and storage have taken
over more and more of a typical house
and lot. In this article, I want to
explore some of the good and bad
ways to design and locate an attached
garage.
The openings into a house are its
eyes and mouth. If you include a huge
double garage door on an ordinary
house facade, the effect is similar to
the huge grinning mouth you might
walk through to get into a fun house.
It is grossly out of place. But we are
now so familiar with the