Don’t Just Build a Garage… Create a Lifestyle

Published by: Brian Schmidt on 27th Aug 2010 | View all blogs by Brian Schmidt

You’re ready to provide a new home for your “baby”. You have looked around at a few garages to find what might be the right fit for your home. You’ve found garages that seem to fit your storage needs.

STOP!

Don’t settle for just any old garage. Use your imagination to design the ultimate nursery for your “baby”. After all she is your child. She deserves the best. And you want to show her off in style – your style!

A garage does not have to be some mundane four sided box with a hole in it for your vehicle to pass through. That’s for sub-division builders. You’re building a space to house the “love of your life” (or at least one of them) and a place to spend time with her.

This space should exemplify your love and fascination for her. It should be showy but classy, bright and airy without being gaudy. And it should show a bit of you and your preferred lifestyle and image.

Metal building kits lend themselves well to this type of garage or shop. You can have large open and unrestricted spaces. The buildings are extremely flexible and can sport many different and personalized facades.

The days of metal building kits being simply tin boxes are over. You have the ability to transform the structural elements of these buildings into something beautiful and unique. All it takes is a little imagination.

After all if a metal building can be constructed to look like the Titanic - complete with iceberg - as has been done in an American amusement park, surely you can put some personal definition to your new garage space.

Dress up the exterior to look like an upscale car showroom. Perhaps give it a look of an old gas station (you have to add one of those glass-topped pumps. ;-)). Old or new – or anything in between – you can completely customize the façade of your new metal garage to suit your car and your personality. You can even have your garage look like a shiny commercial building if you like.

Inside you could have your new garage dressed up with stainless steel tool boxes, benches and cabinets. Or maybe you would like to carry the “old gas station” theme into the interior with a counter that disguises a bar instead of confections with some vintage signs scattered around on the walls.

Accessorizing metal garage building kits is more a matter of imagination than anything else. In today’s age of the internet, almost anything you can imagine is available somewhere on the net. Ultra-modern tool cases; antique cabinets and signage; pit-row décor; all can be incorporated into your metal garage building.

As mentioned earlier, the look of your new garage (or display case) can meet most any look you can imagine. Metal siding is normally the base package “skin”. There are however numerous types and styles of metal sidings. If one of these does not suit your image don’t despair.

A pre-engineered building can utilize any covering material. Stucco, EIFS (Exterior Insulated Finish System), wood, stone, vinyl, brick, pre-cast concrete panels, mirrored metal panels and even fabric can be used to cover pre-eng buildings.

Engineered building systems can provide very large open areas – three hundred foot widths and more… plenty of room for all of your babies. They are extremely strong to safely store your precious vehicles. And they are non-combustible which may decrease your insurance premiums.

With so many options and the ability to personally customize you garage there is no need to just settle for a mundane garage. Plan a space that exemplifies your desired lifestyle!