Our house has a decent sized garage, but there's a pole in the way that makes it hard to park both cars.

Apr 25, 2017
10:32:14am

El Jefe Get off my lawn!

My parents have separate garage doors for each car, with enough space on each side to make it easy to park. That's probably what I'd do if I was building.

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Those who have built homes in the last 5 yrs or so -

dryflyelk

4/25/17 10:14am

More hardwood, less carpet. Go with zoned HVAC system.

Flippy

4/25/17 10:16am

Zoned how?

Heinz57

4/26/17 4:41pm

Our biggest regret was not adding an additional 1.5 bathrooms.

Cosmodiar

4/25/17 10:17am

Make sure your garage is as big as possible.

PharmD

4/25/17 10:19am

Agreed. It is not possible to build a garage that is too big.

dilbert

4/25/17 10:21am

Our first house had a 2 car and a 1 car garage. The 2 car could barely fit 2

PharmD

4/25/17 10:23am

Our house has a decent sized garage, but there's a pole in the way that makes it hard to park both cars.

El Jefe

4/25/17 10:32am

Better to have the pole inside the house for climate control while dancing.

Pistol Shrimp

4/25/17 10:38am

10 foot ceilings and 8 foot doors

Cougar Geek

4/25/17 10:20am

Helicopter pad for the Chinook is a must.

Fatalplacebo

4/25/17 10:20am

I feel bad for you for not being able to afford a nicer helicopter

Backcountry

4/25/17 10:27am

It's the mini van of helicopters. I have to lug the kids around.

Fatalplacebo

4/25/17 10:47am

Can't you just park it in the driveway?

Ragnar Danneskjold

4/25/17 7:32pm

A guy in my town has two of those backed into his driveway.

Conan

4/25/17 8:15pm

RE: A guy in my town has two of those backed into his driveway.

Conan

4/26/17 4:31pm

Pistol range in the basement is nice.

CougarThug

4/25/17 10:25am

Gas stove, island and less carpet on first floor were a couple of our must haves

byusuvu

4/25/17 10:25am

Heated tile floors in the master bath.

Stocktonblues

4/25/17 10:29am

install power outlet behind the toilets for bidets. Thank me later.

BYUFBDAD

4/25/17 11:24am

Cigar room with humidor and hooks to hang monogram jackets

Ron Mexico

4/25/17 10:30am

corinthian leather sofas

dryflyelk

4/25/17 10:33am

Make a tall closet for your Christmas tree, so you can just store it fully decorated.

El Jefe

4/25/17 10:30am

and make the door that stores said tree a bookcase

VACOUGFAN

4/26/17 7:01pm

Glad we upgraded our windows and door sizes. More natural light.

cougarnerd

4/25/17 10:31am

Several things: First, pour as much concrete as you will need as part of the building process.

Pete

4/25/17 10:33am

If you have a large house/family, double water heater is really nice. We run multiple or consecutive showers or laundry

Pete

4/25/17 10:41am

All this, but I'd upgrade to Cat6 over Cat5.

El Jefe

4/25/17 10:42am

CAT6A. CAT6 can only run 10G for 55M. 6A can do the full 100M

Squeegee

4/25/17 12:16pm

But what if my master bedroom suite is more than 100m from the data center?

dilbert

4/25/17 12:55pm

SMF? yeah, but you have to watch out for kinks in the fiber entering the bedroom

Squeegee

4/25/17 1:04pm

220, 221, whatever it takes....

Mr Blue

4/25/17 5:30pm

Wow. I need to make more money.

Cougarrr

4/25/17 10:46am

Ha! I don't have all those things on my house. It's just the list of everything I'd want.

Pete

4/25/17 10:54am

Favorited for when I am ready to upgrade.

WhiteKnight

4/25/17 10:48am

Our house we are moving into in a couple of weeks

FuriousMonkey

4/25/17 11:00am

Sounds like making highlight vids has really paid off for you

cougarnerd

4/25/17 11:03am

Central Vac, wife loved the idea at first

Cougar Geek

4/25/17 10:47am

Mormal vac? Is that a mormon vacuum? Never heard of that before?

jaredm

4/25/17 11:12am

That's fat fingers typing on a small phone touch screen and not proof reading

Cougar Geek

4/25/17 11:17am

if you go central vac, install a baseboard automatic dustpan on hardwood areas

BYUFBDAD

4/25/17 11:27am

Under garage theater/storageroom/mancave

Probable Sacko

4/25/17 11:11am

I actually don't think that's cheap sq footage... the supports and architecture that would be needed to support the

jaromp

4/25/17 11:32am

Depends what the ground level is like on your lot

cougarnerd

4/25/17 11:35am

Mine was 11k on 24 x 26 footprint (624 sqft) unfinished of course

Probable Sacko

4/25/17 1:51pm

I opted for the above garage bonus room also.

Probable Sacko

4/25/17 1:53pm

1. Second (or bigger/tankless) water heater; 2. Hot water circulating pump;

Hodor

4/25/17 11:59am

For the garage door opener, the newer "sidewinder" openers are fantastic.

BYUFBDAD

4/25/17 12:10pm

Oh this list could get long, we just built a year or so ago....

byucougs10

4/25/17 1:14pm

Italian marble on the garage floor. It stands out against my Ferrari collection.

Real Men Wear Blue

4/25/17 2:30pm

Elongated toilets. Or at least one.

Unibro

4/25/17 7:03pm

3rd car garage. I regret it every day

Epileptic Beagle

4/25/17 8:26pm

RE: Those who have built homes in the last 5 yrs or so -

Ssebo

4/25/17 10:28pm

Insulation in the ceilings and walls to reduce sounds when people on another

Chambana Coug

4/25/17 10:57pm

Buy Wolf/Viking stovetop. You'll enjoy it every single day and you'll get your

Y2k

4/26/17 12:09am

Late to the Party, but here's mine (Built 2 years ago):

YouPuntYouDye

4/26/17 4:16pm

I also installed an HVAC register in the garage. It's closed off now, but if I

BYUFBDAD

4/26/17 4:32pm

great ideas. we'll be adding into our existing garage soon and will incorporate

VACOUGFAN

4/26/17 6:55pm

Bigger garage.

VACOUGFAN

4/26/17 6:35pm

a special ac unit that blows on your wife when she blow-dries her hair (you're welcome) now that she's got that, then

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