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Looking Out My House
- Thread starter James Lemon
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Bleak weather! For us here in Beverly Hills it’s a regular January mid-autumn with leaves turning sienna, gold and yellow!
It’s so very cold here, about 66 F!
Asher
It’s so very cold here, about 66 F!
Asher
James Lemon
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Lol ... it's much colder here at about 4300 feet above sea level .
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
If we want snow we can go to the mountains, Aspen or Colorado. Great skiing when I was younger. My grandchildren don’t ski, the surfboard, LOL!
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Jerome Marot
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So every house has a double garage but people still park the car outside, even when they will have to clean the snow?
James Lemon
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I have three garages but cant fit all of my vehicles into them because I need some room for other things. Such as bicycles, power washer, snow blower, leaf blower, some may have a lawn mower as well . So yes they do park outside .
Henry Ford’s Influence
- The "Accidental" Garage: In 1896, Ford built his first car, the Quadricycle, in a shed behind his home. When it was finished, it was too large to fit through the door, so he famously knocked out a brick wall to get it out, inadvertently creating what many consider the first home "garage".
- Mass Adoption: By mass-producing the Model T, Ford made cars affordable for the average person. This created a sudden, massive demand for vehicle storage, leading homeowners to repurpose old carriage houses or build new standalone structures.
- The Move Inside the House
The transition from a detached "shed" to an integrated part of the home happened over several decades:- 1920s: The first attached garages began appearing as car owners wanted more convenient, secure access without walking through bad weather.
- Architectural Invention: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright is often credited with being the first to advocate for integrating the garage into the house's footprint, treating the automobile as a "room of its own" rather than a stable.
- 1940s–1950s: Integrated garages became the standard in post-World War II suburban housing. By 1941, many new homes featured direct entry from the garage into the house.
- 1960s: By this time, the garage had expanded to account for nearly 45% of a typical home's square footage.
Jerome Marot
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Your picture raises many questions. For example: why do people clean the place in front of the garage of snow, while the road itself is not cleaned? How far is that levee from the row of houses in the pictures?