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Inspiration: Garage Style for the Home

The garage might be one of the best rooms to pull inspiration from. It's a small space so it needs to be well organized. It gets plenty of wear and tear so pieces have to be functional yet sturdy. And it has built-in industrial charm. If you're into that.

 
 

• 1 This garage-style door opens up for the ultimate indoor/outdoor space. Created for the Curran House by David Baker & Partners Architects.

• 2 Organized chaos at Choke Motorcycle Shop via The Selby.

• 3 Gold Oil Can Coffee Set by Designcommando.

• 4 Neon Ford sign in NYC’s Motor City Bar.

• 5 Work Lamps by Design House Stockholm.

• 6&7 This home features a vintage metal door as a rolling room divider as well as oil drums for an impromptu dining table.

• 8 A well organized garage from Sarah Rae Trover’s post Guess Whose Garage This Is?

(Images: 1 Marion Brenner; 2 The Selby; 3 Fresh Home; 4 ynotjetlag on Panoramio; 5 Switched On Set; 6,7 The Style Files; 8 DIY Ideas)

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i def like elements of "garage style"! The scrumptious Fatty's restaurant in Eagle Rock is one of my fav examples.

posted by SydneyBristow on November 4th 2009 at 5:40pm
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Garage style encompasses the most basic 'form-follows-function' Modernist creed, which makes it eminently appropriate for living spaces.

I love the notion of garage doors all over the home-- what a useful idea! (Imagine how much easier moving-day would be.)

posted by shirley-temple-of-doom on November 4th 2009 at 7:48pm
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that corner of motor city bar is where i sat for my going-away party (appropriately, i was moving from new york to detroit). i love the decor there... but then, i love detroit ;)

posted by darlintaylor on November 4th 2009 at 9:14pm
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LOOOOVE #1... open up the door and be IN the garden! Perfection!

posted by jeffnyc on November 5th 2009 at 10:45am
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