[.ca] Garage: Reinventing the Place We Park (ISBN 1561586455)

Organization is the name of the game...:
My garage will soon be turned into a workshop (and hopefully still park the car in there), and this book has given great ideas. I only wish I could find the book "Your Garagenous Zone" mentioned on page 98 written by Bill West.

Many Great Ideas:
This is an excellent book that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in garage or home design. The book covers many upscale garages that have been converted to a variety of uses other than just parking cars. There is also a chapter on garages that are used for car storage. I found the book especially useful for ideas on how to smoothly integrate a garage with the rest of the house.

If I had the money...:
If I had the money I would love to have a garage like most of the ones shown in the book. Well there are actually quite a few cheaper ones, and the book does give a person quite a few ideas what a garage can be made into or used for. The only thing I didn't like about the book is that it doesn't get into the really nitty gritty construction type stuff, telling you exactally how to build certain things. Then again maybe it was a good idea to exclude that kind of stuff. If you are looking for a book on how to build for small spaces buy the book Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home by Azby Brown, which shows how the Japanese make use of every inch (cm) of space.

Garagenous Zone:
Loved "Garage." And for the reader who was looking for the book "Your Garagenous Zone," you can hunt it down at www.garagenouszone.com.

Beautiful, but..:
This book shares the strengths and weaknesses of the ...companion volume, At Work At Home. Gorgeous pictures, fabulous ideas, imaginative re-creations, but precious little for the average homeowner who says, well the garage is a place to park cars but what can I do in the way of storage, etc., to make it more functional. As with the other book, architects tend to dominate and our particular situation, the basement level garage with living space over it, is not covered.