Thread Number: 72560
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Front/rear/side driveways |
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Post# 958661 , Reply# 1   9/22/2017 at 23:36 (2,379 days old) by Joeekaitis (Rialto, California, USA)   |   | |
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That’s the Subaru in the driveway. Wife parks the Honda in the garage.
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Post# 958703 , Reply# 2   9/23/2017 at 11:51 (2,378 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada)   |   | |
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Live in the country with a long, uphill driveway...garage on the left of the house.
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Post# 958720 , Reply# 3   9/23/2017 at 13:36 (2,378 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I also like the old style garage off of alley approach, although one only sees that in old neighborhoods. We had that in a couple of houses we lived in when I was young (the newest house was probably built around 1940, but the alley/street system was probably older). On the other hand, my grandparents house (built around 1940, too) had a garage attached to the house, with the door in front, and a short driveway to the street. I don't recall any sort of alley behind that house. But they were in the snow belt, and it's possible that by the time that area of town was built, someone decided alleys weren't the most practical things to have in that climate.
Most houses around here now have a garage in front, attached to the house.
My driveway runs beside the place I live. It's a bit odd in that it runs a long ways back, and connects to a "road" (basically little more than a rough path that car can drive down) connecting several parts of the property. (It's not a single family property--so the entire property is bigger than my immediate area.) There is a carport off the driveway, right behind where I live. |
Post# 958758 , Reply# 5   9/23/2017 at 16:34 (2,378 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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"Hidden" rear-entrance garages aren't found locally but a friend in DFW area lived in two neighborhoods with such. One looked to date to the 1970s, the other 2000s. I'm on a corner lot with driveway entrances at both sides and detached garage set slightly back from the house to a breezeway and wrap-around back porch/patio.
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Post# 958938 , Reply# 6   9/24/2017 at 20:14 (2,377 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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('Cause it's too narrow & can't get past the gate!)
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Post# 959413 , Reply# 7   9/27/2017 at 11:04 (2,374 days old) by dermacie (my forever home (Glenshaw, PA))   |   | |
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My house was built in 1968 and in our neighborhood houses on the right side of the street going down have front integral garages one or two car with a driveway. Across the street left side of the street those houses have garages in the back.
So one could essentially choose when building but you had to pick a lot that would accommodate it per SE. |
Post# 959463 , Reply# 8   9/27/2017 at 16:12 (2,374 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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I should have mentioned that all of the houses in my neighborhood were built by different people over a number of decades. The oldest is from around 1900, and the newest built 2014. |
Post# 959511 , Reply# 10   9/27/2017 at 21:56 (2,374 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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It all has to do what you can do with what you have. My driveway resembles Gary's but is much more steeper but downhill and in the winter it is impossible to keep the snow down with a snowblower. My garage is full, so truck has to stay outside. I just want out of here in the winter but be here in nice weather.
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Post# 959691 , Reply# 11   9/28/2017 at 18:18 (2,373 days old) by Xraytech (Rural southwest Pennsylvania )   |   | |
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I live in the country, my house was built in 1946 and has a side driveway that wraps around back of the house to a detached 2 car garage. My home is the only one in my neighborhood like this. Most are 1950s homes with an attached 1 or 2 car garage facing the front, except the home on one side of me has a drive on the side of home that wraps around to the back to a 1 car garage under the home.
On the other side of me is a large early 60s Executive Ranch with a side driveway that has a 2 car attached 2 car garage with the doors on the side of the house. |
Post# 959734 , Reply# 12   9/28/2017 at 20:30 (2,373 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL)   |   | |
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My house i had in PA was built in 1955, my side of the street the garages were all on the back of the houses and the other side of the street they were on the front. My house here in Fl its on the front of the house |
Post# 959799 , Reply# 13   9/29/2017 at 09:24 (2,372 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )   |   | |
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Our home was originally built in 1925. In 1962, the previous owner added an attached 2 car garage, breezeway, basement rec. room, office/dinette area, and a bedroom. The garage faces east and is on the side of our house. We share a road with the factory next door who actually owns & maintains the road. The whitish area towards the bottom of the aerial photo is the cement area in front of the garage. The road is gravel.
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Post# 959821 , Reply# 14   9/29/2017 at 11:49 (2,372 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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I always like these posts that show a glimpse of the outside of members' homes. I get jealous with all of the "green"...the trees and forest-like properties. The amount of space between the houses is often a real luxury too. In my little community of 66 homes, all the driveways are a short, straight shot to the garage. Originally, you purchased the lot in here and had the outside of the home (the elevation) designed the way you wanted but with many restrictions, pretty much just traditional or Southwest styles. The homes all look a little different. With the interior you basically had a free hand which is why in many cases you walk into a house and say "OMG, what happened?" I think most people don't have a lot of architectural savvy.
No picturesque drive to the front door here...
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Post# 959845 , Reply# 15   9/29/2017 at 16:54 (2,372 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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By the way, Joe, is this your Wildcat pictured in an article on an automotive history website?
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Post# 959866 , Reply# 16   9/29/2017 at 18:50 (2,372 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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That looks like my car but I didn't put it there. It's probably from the guy who I bought it from who did the years of restoration. That photo on the website looks like the All-GM Car Show in Woodland Hills CA. I know he entered the car there at least twice. I have only shown my car once at a very small show in a neighborhood park here in Palm Springs. I did none of the work so I really don't have anything to brag about. Anyone can buy a restored car.
Woodland Hills a few years back. The owner won First Prize.
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Post# 959867 , Reply# 17   9/29/2017 at 18:53 (2,372 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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I found it rather odd when we bought our first house in Calgary (built early 80's) that the whole neighborhood and many of them there all had back laneways/alleys which is something I thought had gone out of fashion decades ago. To me it seemed like wasted space. I'd much rather a deeper backyard, house setback farther and a driveway off the street. Back alleys also cost a lot for the city to maintain and aren't usually the most attractive.
Here though I don't think there are any back alleys anywhere. Most houses have a side or front driveway. |
Post# 959929 , Reply# 19   9/30/2017 at 14:13 (2,371 days old) by Whatsername (Denver, CO)   |   | |
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Here in Colorado lots of the new construction has an interesting take on the alley format. The houses are on the lot "backwards", that is, with the garage in the back of the house, on the street, and the front of the house on the opposite side, away from the street. I like it as it seems like a more efficient use of land, and you get the same feel as a backyard without the wasted space of a front yard. There is slightly less privacy, though, as your only yard faces the front of someone else's house in most cases, but that's the price you pay with how expensive housing is in town here.
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Post# 959935 , Reply# 20   9/30/2017 at 16:03 (2,371 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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I forgot to mention that on the next street over there is a house with a one-car garage that has a door in the rear in addition to the one in the front. My dad said this had something to do with the undeveloped alley that was supposed to be in the back. The house was built sometime in the early 50's. |
Post# 960210 , Reply# 23   10/2/2017 at 10:57 (2,369 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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seems to vary a lot in different parts of the US, in the East on many older suburbs and city areas with single family houses alleyway garages were pretty common.
Our '50s neighborhood had a mix of backyard separate garages, front entry garages flush with the house facade, never protruding, and rear entry house garages with turnaround pads. Our family's house, and quite a few others had no garage at all, though we had a nice sized yard, in MD weather was mild enough you could get away without one, and cost was always a factor. Last new house we built in '95 had a side entry 2 car garage, we didn't like the look of front entry, and we had 3 ac. and the space for a side entry driveway and parking area. My sister's place in Livermore CA has a 3 car front entry garage that totally dominates the appearance of the house, imo. |