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Blogging Canadian House & Home: Garage Makeover

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We don't usually get excited over stuff like this, since personal garages aren't common among urban apartment-dwellers such as ourselves. But we couldn't help but enjoy some of the great storage ideas in this article, that we might be able to manage just as well on a mud porch.

 
 
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The idea we liked best was this storage wall, where the owners framed and painted a section of the slatted wall, then mounted shelves between the slats to hold jars of smaller items.

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Images: Erin Feasby for Canadian House & Home

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It's going to be tough to clean the spiderwebs out of that garage.

posted by quercus on 2008-03-05 14:39:20
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My guess is there will be fewer spiderwebs in that garage, because it will probably get used more than most.

posted by hmr on 2008-03-05 14:42:00
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wow, I'm so jealous! I'm wistful for a garage.

posted by EastVillageAmy on 2008-03-05 14:57:45
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Some of those slat wall systems are pretty cool.

Ikea cabinets in the garage too--why not!

posted by art on 2008-03-05 15:07:14
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Most of the things on this blog arent for urban apartment dwellers but that never stopped you.

posted by Sara48 on 2008-03-05 15:32:07
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I agree that it looks good, but 99% of people actually park their car(s) in them. So no, you don't get very much usable space to do all these beautiful things in them. This looks more appropriate for the shed.

posted by siongchinchan on 2008-03-05 15:52:49
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I wonder where in Canada this guys lives. Here in Toronto, with all the damn snow, it makes it pretty hard for me to want to leave my car out on the street.

posted by damnboy on 2008-03-05 15:58:34
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Is a mud porch something that comes with San Francisco apartments?

posted by Christine (the one in DC) on 2008-03-05 16:19:35
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A lot of older San Francisco residences have enclosed porches. I usually see them off of the kitchen. Sometimes people use them as dining rooms.

posted by SFGail on 2008-03-05 16:53:57
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maybe they don't own a car.

posted by RJD on 2008-03-05 18:47:10
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In toronto it's not unusual to have laneway parking, which means you have a small garage that is entirely separate from the house. If you don't have a car or very much space, why waste that space as a garage? This isn't even the nicest conversion I've seen. Anyhow, even if it's not an apartment it is urban.

posted by juliaonhamilton on 2008-03-06 14:03:03
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