Well Sure It Lasts Longer If You Can’t Actually Use The Garage

"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
10/23/2017 at 09:00 • Filed to: None

I hope they didn’t pay much for this ad...

DISCUSSION (28)

Azrek > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:04

Maybe those are designed for Horses? There are even plants for them to eat on their walk in?

pip bip - choose Corrour > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:08

optical illusion?

random001 > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:10

Best guess? They used a picture of the “model home” that are frequently built like this. No access to features, just showing off crap.

Or someone is really cheeky...

Thomas Donohue > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:10

It’s clearly a hallmark of Perry design. They call it ‘Landscaped Driveways’

(apparently it’s a thing....model homes sometimes don’t have driveways. some of these have TWO blocked garages...)

https://www.perryhomes.com/Gallery-of-Homes/Exteriors#lg=1&slide=2

Kinja'd!!!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:10

That’s hilarious.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/23/2017 at 09:10

Bad Photoshop.

OPPOsaurus WRX > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:19

boooooooooo

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:26

“Perry Homes - Don’t worry about shoveling the driveway when it snows.”

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:33

I feel like this really speaks to the American way. “We know you’re going to put your car in this garage for like a year and then slowly fill the garage with garbage you don’t need but can’t get rid of, so let’s just skip to the end.”

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > random001
10/23/2017 at 09:34

But why would you build it with an unusable garage?

Then again, most people see a garage as a place to store crap, not a place to store cars.

Bengal55 > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:36

As said they do this for model homes, the garages are frequently used as sales centers and may not even have traditional garage doors (french doors in their place). They’ll remain that way until the neighborhood is sold out, at which point they’ll be converted into normal garages and a traditional driveway will be installed. They’ll then be sold like any other home in the subdivision.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:41

A little preemptive on building for a world where everyone has an autonomous car pass, aren’t we? These are clearly junk storage spaces (as most people use garages for) that have rolling doors in case you want to use them as a shop.

Then again, I’ve never seen a modern garage with a flat concrete floor like the garages grandpa built in SoCal. Only one of the two was used for a car and a trailer (and a small shop space, plus both were deep enough to have a film developing room in the back), while the other was always used as a wood shop.

Wacko > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:45

2 words

Flying cars!

random001 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 09:46

Ones I’ve been in have the garage converted to the sales office so they can use the rest of the house for show and tell, staging it as a house, etc.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > OPPOsaurus WRX
10/23/2017 at 10:04

I thought you might have a take on this lol.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Bengal55
10/23/2017 at 10:07

This makes sense from a practical point of view. But at the same time I’d rather see an actual, fully functional home advertised rather than a garden where my driveway should be.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:09

One of the main reasons I bought a house from the 70’s in an area where most are 2000+ is the wide, deep, flat-floored garage. None of the newer construction has anything like it.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:09

Even as crap storage you need more access than the little gap between the doors and shrubbery in the ad.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:32

I feel like most of these have a walkway between them.

OPPOsaurus WRX > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:32

yea i dunno who they think they are fooling. that is horrible. They should also add some more gables. you can never have enough gables

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > random001
10/23/2017 at 10:33

An office with a huge openable door to let fresh air in, while still keeping most elements off sounds pretty sweet.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:47

I wonder what started that trend. All garages I’ve seen built since sometime in the 1980s have had a sloping floor (presumably so water flows down and out, instead of having a drain inside, but all I’ve seen is the water collecting behind the door seal). It’s kind of terrible for practicality.

On the other hand, dealing with the abysmal construction of post-1960s and pre-2000s housing would be a difficult decision. Well, unless it was absolutely top-tier construction, of which there was little.

DipodomysDeserti > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 10:53

That’s called the ‘bama special. Why pay extra for a driveway when you’re just going to park on the lawn?

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
10/23/2017 at 11:10

I just don’t understand the mentality that results in junk-filled garages rather than car-filled garages.

I already have too much crap in mine, but my wife and I are committed to keeping the garage as a place primarily for cars (and a chest freezer).

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 11:19

Agreed. That said my garage is currently half filled with car junk, so I can’t throw too many stones. (I claimed one bay as a work/ tool area for my recent repairs. Still trying to clean that up.)

Urambo Tauro > Thomas Donohue
10/23/2017 at 11:27

“Landscaped driveway” LOL what a dumb name.

There’s nothing “special” about the driveway. It’s obviously just part of the yard. If they’re going to call it something, might as well call it “useless door”.

kanadanmajava1 > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
10/23/2017 at 11:45

In Finland the purpose of a garage is to store a vehicle. Besides the vehicles you can also place there one set of tires and a moderate amount of tools. You are allowed to do minor fixes in the garage. Any other use of a garage would be illegal.

Needless to say that only very small amount of garage owners obey these rules and they are not even enforced. So most garages are full of crap.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > kanadanmajava1
10/23/2017 at 11:52

You’d think that people would use them more for their intended purpose in Finland. Personally, I refuse to live somewhere without a garage where I live and it doesn’t even get that cold here. Keeping my car clean (no tree bits in my car), keeping it warm/dry, and being able to leave without defrosting/fogging is critical in an environment like mine.