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Is a triple garage chavvy/nouveau riche?

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 20:26

That's it really...

Dh and I thinking about an extension and I said if we had a triple garage we could have a big master suite, ensuite dressing room etc, whereas a double would be a guest bedroom I think... But dh said a triple garage would look nouveau riche... Would it???

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jalopy · 09/09/2012 20:30

I dont mind one garage door on a property but 3? It will look like a hangar.

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 20:31

We currently have a double garage and one big door, do you have to have three on a triple garage then?

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oreocrumbs · 09/09/2012 20:53

Could you have a triple garage but with only one/a double door, and perhaps a window in the 3rd garage space?

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 21:08

Yes we could do that.

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ThreadWatcher · 09/09/2012 21:11

Honest answer?

Yes
but then I would think that about a double garage as well........

thenightsky · 09/09/2012 21:12

I'd LOVE a triple garage. I could get both cars in, plus all the gardening stuff AND wine, lots of wine

BrianButterfield · 09/09/2012 21:15

I'd have one without three doors, if you weren't going to have three cars in it. We have space to take our garage back further which would make it 3x the length of a single garage but the same width - I'd love to do that then we could split it into garage/workshop and storage/home gym.

herhonesty · 09/09/2012 21:19

Yes

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 21:20

I think we'd put two cars in and my dh collection of bikes. So it's really three doors that would be chavvy?

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FelicitywasSarca · 09/09/2012 21:21

Yep. A window and surely then it's a room rather than a garage?

hmc · 09/09/2012 21:22

Of course not, what nonsense.

Would look fine if in proportion to a substantial house.

NoComparison · 09/09/2012 21:24

Presumably you mean extend the ground floor garage, so that the 1st floor extension above can be a suite?

Does all the GF need to be garage, could the bit nearest the house be a study, games room, family room etc? Don't think I like triple garages, but that aside, it seems a bit of a waste TBH.

Doilooklikeatourist · 09/09/2012 21:25

We went to a fab family ( my Aunts 60th ) birthday party , which was held in the quadruple garage of their house .
Obviously we went into the rest of the house too
This was about 10 years ago , in their 1960 s executive 4 bed detached , in a lovely place .
The word chav is nowhere near this .
It can be done tastefully ...

herhonesty · 09/09/2012 21:25

Yes. If you are not going to use it as a garage then make it into a proper room

hmc · 09/09/2012 21:33

search.knightfrank.com/VIR120082

I wouldn't call this example chavvy but then it is a substantial house and I am guessing like most of us, you dont live in a house like this. On a 'typical' / average family house a triple garage could look incongruous

AuntLucyInPeru · 09/09/2012 21:38

You're completely fucked in class terms as soon as you have even one built-in garage (the correct answer is - use the coach house or stables) so you might as well go for it

jalopy · 09/09/2012 21:39

I think we're verging on lock-up garages there, hmc.

Viperidae · 09/09/2012 21:44

Our friends have a triple garage with 3 doors and it does not look chavvy or nouveau at all. Having said that it is attached to a lovely and substantial modern house, might be different on an average semi.

biddyofsuburbia · 09/09/2012 21:45

Why don't you create another room downstairs? Do you really need a triple garage? I don't know if it's nouveau riche, massive would be the word I'd use. Also, my DF had a double garage under one of the bedrooms (the guest room) and when I stayed there I was absolutely freezing due to the unheated room underneath although the rest of the house was toasty.

One thing's for sure if it was us, the cars would still be outside and it would gradually get filled with all manner of crap

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 22:24

The downstairs of our house is much bigger than upstairs, it used to be a bungalow. So adding 2 bedrooms upstairs would even things up. And we don't need anymore rooms downstairs really, although we have said we could maybe use one as a gym or something?

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tricot39 · 09/09/2012 22:39

I have worked on a number of big houses where previous owners have extended and extended just for the sake of it. The resulting spaces are not particularly useful or attractive. Unless you have a skilled architect on board it sounds like this new extension to your already extended property might be more of a liability than an asset.

How big is the house compared to the garden at present? And after the proposed extension? How many of your neighbours have triple garages?

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 22:47

Half of the extension would be doing exactly as you say making a ugly ext look better, the previous people added a flat room ext to half the front of the house, so a bit of what we would do would be to put a proper pitch room over the flat roof, hence making it look better and look like it should have done. We are going to work with an architect our first meeting is on Wednesday. We have a piece of land to the right of our house that doesn't really add any benefit to anyone so we could in theory use a bit of that for the third garage, we'd be moving our existing garage next to the house, currently it's about 3.5/4 ft away so in reality we wouldn't be making the house look much wider at all if we did have a triple garage.

Part of the brief we give the architect will be to make the house look as if it's always been this way whereas right now it's sort of grown organically...

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Karbea · 09/09/2012 22:52

All of our neighbours have double garages, I'm pretty sure the house behind us has a triple garage. And along the road there are a few with 3, but we have a wide (due to it once being a bungalow) plot whereas a lot of the houses are 3 floors tall, built where a large plot has been split in two, those houses only have doubles.

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tricot39 · 09/09/2012 23:03

That all sounds very sensible.
Don't let the architect rush you through the early design stages. Take plenty time to understand what you are getting and whether you like it before moving on to the next stage. It is easier and cheaper to experiment make mistakes on paper than in bricks and mortar. Good luck.

TiggerWearsATriteSmile · 09/09/2012 23:12

Oh goodness, if its a road frontage property then don't do it.
Can you park underground at all?

Our garage is hidden from view so it's irrelevant, is that an option for you?

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