Rare finds
A fenced-in back yard. Super. A driveway gate. Great. A dog run. Useful. A deep, two-car garage with an automatic door. Wonderful. A room on the back of garage with alley access. Amazing. The combination of these assets is not often found in this neck of the woods.
Look at this roomy garage! It is wide enough for two cars. You can see the doorway to the back room. We will clean out and fix up this bonus space so it can be used for an office or other purpose.
Not the kind of sky light one wants to have. We discovered this hole in the roof of an addition to the front part of the garage. Upon inspection, we found that this new-ish part of the structure was about to collapse, but the original building was sound. Because the garage was so deep, we chose to pull off the the add-on rather than try to repair it.
Since this photo was taken, the addition has been removed. The garage door has been cleaned, reset and is now in working order.
Granted, the garage needs a lot of help. At some point, an addition was built onto the front of the structure. However, over the years the addition’s roof had rotted out—so much so that the garage door could no longer work. Because the original garage was so deep, we decided the best thing to do was pull the addition off and reset the door.
Over time, much of the Masonite siding on the east wall had disintegrated, so we pulled it off and replaced it with wood siding that matches the rest of the building and the house itself.
Off with the nasty garage siding! It has been replaced and is now ready to be painted.
We were particularly intrigued with the room built behind the garage. We learned from a former neighbor that two nuns had once lived in the home and had used the space for a prayer room. We plan to spiff it up so that the space can be returned to service. These days, a separate home office space can be the key to sanity, and this space would make a great one. It could also serve as a studio, a media room, a school room, a man cave or a sort of she shed. However it will be used, we believe the area will have a soothing, calm atmosphere, thanks to its prior occupants.