Grown Men Garage Man Cave
Are you tired of that drab garage? Update it for the ultimate in man caves, were talking about the garages that grown men desire for all of those new toys. The offering of garage doors have radically changed in the past ten years moving away from the boring to the quite fabulous.
Garage doors now run the gamut from stark contemporary — the entire door is tempered glass set in aluminum frames — to French country. The most popular of the new doors is the carriage-house look. It's compatible with almost any traditional style of house. Even better, when a standard-sized, 16-by-7-foot garage door in this style is closed, it appears to be two pairs of carriage-house doors that swing out, not a big blank area on the front of your house.
You can also customize a carriage-house styled door to a remarkable degree by adding varying sizes and shapes of windows, trim pieces, bucks (from the street they look like huge X's), half bucks (they look like huge V's) and period-style hardware. The hardware options include straps (part of the hinges on the old doors), handles and clavos (studs that held the pieces of wood together on the old doors).
All this comes at some cost, especially compared with your basic white steel door with raised panels that many home builders still use. For a new house, the installed price for a generic two-car-sized door can be as low as $300, while the upscale carriage-house door in a two-car size can cost $600 to $30,000. The huge price difference depends on the material used — steel or wood — and the degree to which you customize it.At the high end — $7,000 to $30,000 — you are not limited to the carriage-house look. Manufacturers will execute any design you present with any wood that is commercially available. You can add almost any feature you want, including windows with leaded or beveled glass.
Designer Doors uses hand-forged hardware on its custom doors and offers unusual features such as a wicket, an operable entry door built into a garage door. That's a handy arrangement when the front of a row house is too narrow for separate front and garage doors. Designer Doors can also fabricate matching front and garage doors, a great way to create a cohesive look for the front of the house.
Still high end, but not in the stratosphere, semi-custom, wood carriage-house doors in the two-car size run about $4,000 to $5,000, installed. They are not quite as fabulous as the custom doors, but you still get a gorgeous door with a deep, rich color that grabs you from 50 feet away. You can customize it with bucks, hardware and windows choices.
These options are fine and dandy if you are going for the contemporary look, but we are talking "pimped out" the ultimate in male recreation, style and show off. Were talking about what you would do if money were no object...the ultimate in home customization. Its called the Cardock a unique garage alternative designed to manage two cars in one driveway.
The Cardock can support approximately 10 tons (22,400 lbs) of combined weight. This is enough to support the vehicle it lifts from the dark recesses of your front lawn, as well as the vehicle you may potentially leave parked on top. This allows the cars to interchange without having to drive the top vehicle away before lifting the other.
The Cardock will set you back around $72,000 for the double capacity lift, which makes you consider what percentage of your home’s value that number might represent. So far there are eight already installed in the nicer parts of London, England, with four more being installed and ten that have been ordered.
Get ready to be the talk of the neighborhood this is a garage upgrade straight from the Bat Cave.
Read full article here: https://blog.houseplans.com/article/garage-doors-grow-up
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