I walk in a neighborhood with very large homes on enormous lots. Some are way back off the street. The size of the front lawn is 4-5 times the size of the house. Many of the houses are obscured by foliage and difficult to see. There are no sidewalks. It is like walking in the country. I see one house with a six-car garage — three double garage doors in the front of the house. It is in perfect proportion to the rest of the house, one all-encompassing design. Does this family have that many children who have their own car or does it just collect cars like Jay Leno?
In East Texas I knew a man who was an antique car judge, flying to various locations to put his stamp of approval/disapproval on various cars. He also had his own temperature-controlled garage for his favorite antique car.
According to Wikipedia, the word garage, introduced to English in 1902, originates from the French word “garer,” meaning shelter. By 1908 the architect Charles Harrison Townsend was commenting in The Builder magazine that "for the home of the car, we very largely use the French word 'garage,' alternatively with what I think is the more desirable English equivalent of 'motor house.'"
The 1901 newspaper article above discusses a name for a private collection of automobiles, which mentions the word "garage" as being a possible choice except that that word was already in use in the broader sense of a place to store and repair them. Today the word “garage” has both senses; for example, “Jay Leno’s Garage” is a series about his collection and other interesting collections, not merely the buildings that contain them.
In Australia
Australian homes typically have a two, one-and-a-half or double car garage, with some newer houses having a triple garage, with one double door and one single door. Prior to the 1970s most of them were detached from the house, usually set further back with the driveway leading up past the side of the house, common with old fiberboard houses, but not uncommon with earlier brick houses. The most common doors on these garages were either two wooden barn style doors with a standard sized access door on the side of the garage, or the B&D Rolla Door, which is described below.
The most common garage door to date in Australia is the B&D Rolla Door, having been around since 1956 and still in heavy use today. It is a corrugated flexible but strong sheet steel door, sliding up tracks and rolling around a drum mounted above the door opening on the inside of the garage. These come in manual and remote-controlled electric — known as the Control-a-Door — with conversion kits available. Locking is provided by a key lock in the center of the door moving two square sliding lock bars in and out of holes in the door tracks, locking and unlocking it, or by the solenoid lock in the automatic motor.
Newer homes feature more American styled tilting panel lift doors which slide up onto a track on the ceiling via a motor and chain drive. Since the late 1970s most if not all garages are attached, and throughout the 80s it became more common to have an access door into the home from the garage where design permitted, whereas it is commonplace now. Most older apartment blocks in Australia have garages on the ground floor accessible through a common hallway and access doors, all leading into a common driveway. Newer ones now have underground parking.
Australia has strict guidelines in place when building a home, and the garage size must conform to the Australian Standards. The minimum size for a single garage is 9.8 ft × 17.7 ft and a double is 17.7 ft × 17.7 ft. However, to comfortably fit two cars in a double garage it is typical to have a size of 19.7 ft × 19.7 ft.
According to the article “Australia’s first ‘sky garages’ will allow residents to park in their apartment” in Domain, for owners of any luxury vehicle — regardless of the size of their collection — safe storage is always an issue. While apartments can often offer secure basement parking, Neue Grand by Growland is offering residents the first “sky garages” in the Southern Hemisphere.
Inspired by Singapore’s Hamilton Scott building and the Porsche Design Tower in Miami, “sky garages” allow residents to exhibit their prestige vehicles in the same way they might precious art – behind glass and visible from their living room.
Located at 613 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Neue Grand is a luxury development that will contain 18 full-floor apartments, each with a two-car sky garage.
Using Wohr Multiparker, the same German-designed system employed in Singapore, the sky garage allows residents to drive into the basement and onto a turntable. Once they have exited the vehicle, residents take a private lift to their floor and the system does the rest.
“It will pick up the car through the car lift-shaft, all the way up to your level, and then will push your car into the sky garage and secure it,” said Ronald Chan, chief executive of Melbourne-based Growland, which develops apartments and master-planned communities.
With prices starting at $4.3 million — and the super-penthouse available for $23.9 million — Chan said “everything is top of the range. There’s no upgrade options because everything is the best for these buyers.”
In the United Kingdom
The common term for these structures in the first decades of the 20th century was motor house. Many garages from before 1914 were prefabricated, typically by companies such as Norwich manufacturer Boulton & Paul Ltd. The style was usually in keeping with that of the house and its locale, however, they were mainly of timber construction and few have survived.
E. Keynes Purchase — "honorary architect" to what was to become the Royal Automobile Club — did a lot of work on them and recommended in “The Car Illustrated” in 1902 that they be of brick construction with cement floor, an inspection pit, good electric lighting and a pulley system for removing parts of the car — in the early days of motoring many car owners were mechanical and engineering enthusiasts.
The architecture of garages was ignored in the architectural journals despite famous architects such as Edwin Lutyens, Richard Barry Parker and Edgar Wood all designing garages for their wealthy clients. Charles Harrison Townsend was one of the few architects who put pen to paper — in “The Builder” in 1908 — on the subject and recommended that the walls be glazed brick for ease of washing, air gratings to be low (petrol fumes are heavier than air) and drains half open to avoid build-up of gases.
By 1910 corrugated iron and asbestos were being used instead of wood, and garages became less imposing. From 1912 speculatively built houses in London were being built with motor houses.
In North America
Garages built after 1950 usually have a door that connects the garage directly to the interior of the house, an "attached garage". Earlier garages were often detached and located in the back yard of the house, accessed either via a long driveway or from an alley.
In the past, garages were often separate buildings from the house — "detached garage". On occasion, a garage would be built with an apartment above it, which could be rented out. As automobiles became more popular, the concept of attaching the garage directly to the home grew into a common practice.
Around the start of the 21st century, companies began offering "portable garages" in the United States. Typically, these garages are made of metal, wood or vinyl and do not connect to the house or other structure, much like the garage built before 1950. This portable garages usually have a strongly reinforced floor to hold a heavy vehicle. Garages are also produced as composite fabric garages with metal frames that are lightweight and portable garage compared to traditional brick-and-mortar or metal garage structures.
Over the past 15 years, the portable garage has further evolved into a modular garage or a partially prefabricated structure. The modular garage comes from a factory that assembles the garage in two sections and combines the two sections on location. Partially prefabricated garages are often larger and might even include an attic space or a second floor. Sections of the garage are preassembled and then setup on site over a few days’ time. The Amish have become popular builders of portable, modular and partially prefabricated garages.
Over the last decade, garage flooring products have become more readily available to the general public. In fact, the volume of garage flooring on the market today can serve as a source of frustration and confusion for homeowners. Generally speaking, these products can be broken into the following categories: garage floor mats, garage floor tiles, coatings — including epoxy, urethanes and hybrids, sealers and densifiers as well as garage floor containment systems.
According to Brittany Chang’s Dec. 6, 2019 article “A $20 million Colorado property with a 100-car garage and an indoor pool made to look like the Playboy Mansion’s is up for sale” in Business Insider, a former race-car driver's Colorado mansion — which includes a 100-car showroom, an indoor pool inspired by Hugh Hefner and a Star Trek-themed theater — has been listed at $20 million.
The home was built by Richard Berry, a grandson of Loren M. Berry, who was known as "Mr. Yellow Pages" for his invention of the business telephone directory.
Richard Berry originally purchased the property in the late 1990s for under $1 million, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The mansion — nicknamed "Thunder Ridge" — is in Evergreen, Colorado, less than an hour from Denver. It's at the end of a five-mile stretch of mountain roads, which Berry has used as his personal racetrack, The Wall Street Journal said.
The home was built in 2004 and is listed for $19,999,999 and includes 79 acres of land. The 25,400-square-foot home has seven bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms and four half-bathrooms. The garage is 1,600 square feet larger than the home and has one bedroom and two bathrooms. The car showroom can fit more than 100 cars. It also has its own car wash and gas station. Berry once owned 232 cars, including 23 Lamborghinis. However, his collection has since been reduced to about 30 cars. He said his favorite car is his Bugatti Veyron. If the next owners don’t have a need for a car showroom, the space could be converted into stables or sports courts and rinks, Berry told The Wall Street Journal.
The architect of the home initially camped on the property for several nights to “make sure he got the feng shui of the place,” Berry told The Wall Street Journal. There’s a wet bar, a spa room and a wine room. There are at least four fireplaces in the mansion. The tropical indoor swimming pool has a tiki bar, a hot tub, a waterfall and a ceiling painted to look like the night sky, with fiber optics that light up to mimic constellations. It was inspired by Hugh Hefner’s pool in the Playboy Mansion. There’s also an in-home theater inspired by “Star Trek.” The interior looks like the inside of the starship Enterprise, and the seats are adorned with the fictional spacecraft’s logo. The seats can also be synched with action scenes to move in conjunction with the film on the screen. Marble decorates the home, including in the kitchen, the bathrooms and the dining room. There are also luxurious touches that show the architect’s attention to detail, including a swan-neck sink.
Jay Leno's garage is a 122,000-square-feet building and consists of over 286 vehicles, 117 of which are motorcycles.
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