Large shed or garage that you can’t get a car in?

[BeechTreeView]

70 year old garage on a 100 year old house, that tBF you can get 2 SUV size car in....but you couldn’t open the doors. So effectively a garage sized shed.

Or pull down and replace with large shed and more garden....

We'll be here at least 10 years maybe longer ....

Get a builder to sort out the doors?

Would you use it as a garage if you did?

It’s the car doors that won’t open once the car is in....it’s too narrow!

We’d never use as garage, big drive and on street parking too.

Oh I see!

I guess it comes down to how much you really want more garden, and how much chaos you will put up with to get it.

I suspect a garage might add more value to your home than a big shed.

I suppose it depends how much garden you already have (and how much you'd like/need more) but, for me, a garage is invaluable - and I've never kept a car in it. Just everything else, like freezers, tinned goods, dog stuff, bikes, tools, garden furtinure during winter and so on.

depends entirely on the configuration of the rest of the garden. if I had enough garden elsewhere, I'd put big windows in the garage and use it as a studio / storage / home gym.

A potting bench!

It would cost a lot to pull down, dispose of rubble and base / foundations to then put up a shed. I'd pull it down it if it is the 1930s style garage in the back garden between house and garden (so in the way). But a brick building for storing bikes, tools, motorbikes etc is a real bonus for me.

Hmm, I wonder if I pull down half of it? Keep half for storage and put a lean to greenhouse (nice one) on the old garage floor of the other half.

Yes it's at the top of the drive, separate from the house, and in the best bit sunwise of a fairly small garden.

We need somewhere to keep bikes and some crap. Moved from a house that didn't have a garage.

Though miraculously our garage is now full but mostly of stuff that used to be in my greenhouse and potting shed.

I look at the garage - and all I can imagine is a lovely greenhouse and potting shed in its space that I can float around in with a trug and pretty watering can and cram with plants.

Just fit windows to the sunny walls then?

Get a company to look at glazing the garden-facing wall, divide it so you have a lovely plant space plus a storage space, job done!

These people did a great job at ours, we got them off our rear neighbours who did a massive remodel, both fantastic work.

www.hehku.co.uk/

Ours is now a studio. We put a door in, with glass panels either side.

I'm liking the idea of glass doors and probably some rooflights too. To get enough light.