1 or 2 car garage?

[Fernando]

Most two car garages built in the fifties-sixties even seventies did not actually hold tow full sized cars as many were 17 feet wide or 18 X 20. Today mots modern two car garages will not hold two full sized SUVs or pickup trucks. So I use what considered typical for that neighborhood. And how they are marketed. Those millions of homes in Los Angeles built in the fifties and sixties with those detached 18 X 18 Garages are all listed and marketed as 2-car garages. A 1 Car garage is usually 10 or 12 feet wide . There is no such thing as a 1 1/2 car garage as you cannot cut a vehicle in half.

Thanks Glenn. That's what I observed in these older homes with 17 feet wide garage. Didn't know why they built such small width 2 car garages.
Many times I see homeowner park only one car in those garages, thus it be inappropriate to call 2 car garage.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

What do you call a garage which is 1.5 car wide garage?
It's not big enough for 2 car s/s but larger than 1 car garage?

Today's assignment EXACTLY (ALMOST)... A 2-car garage and also a detached garage with space for two cars but only a 1-car vehicular entrance!!!! Maybe apply the UAD terminology by calling it a "1.1 Garage." LOL

 

[andrew81]

Around these parts a 1 1/2 car garage means you can store an everyday full size truck and a project car that is being worked on (and never completed). Or storage for a side-by-side, deep freezer for deer meat, atv, or anything else that needs storage except a half-car. Depending on the size, location, and grade of the extra 1/2 car space I might make an adjustment and provide explanation. It depends on the location and the expectation of the market the subject property is located.