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House Plans With a 3 Car Garage

Three bays for two cars and everything else — the truck, the boat, the workbench that never fits anywhere. These plans put a three-car garage under the same roofline instead of bolting it on.

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House Plans With a 3 Car Garage

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The third bay is almost never for a third car. It is for the truck, the boat, the trailer, the mower, or the workbench that has run out of anywhere else to live -- and that changes what you should be looking at on the drawings, because a third bay is a massing problem before it is a parking one.

Thirty-two feet of garage across the front of a house will dominate the elevation unless the design does something about it. The plans worth having push the third bay forward or back from the other two, drop its roofline, or turn it to a side entry so the front reads as a house. The four elevations on every plan show exactly how that was handled, which is the thing to compare between designs.

Side-by-side or tandem is the other decision. Three bays side by side need about thirty-two feet of width and a driveway to match, which rules them out on a narrow lot. A tandem third bay runs deep behind one of the others -- the same covered space on a twenty-two foot frontage, at the cost of having to move one vehicle to reach the one behind it. Both are in this catalogue.

Budget for the driveway, not just the garage. Three bays want an apron wide enough to swing into the outer doors, and that is concrete nobody prices until the quotes arrive. The garage is dimensioned on the drawings and excluded from the heated square footage.

Every plan includes dimensioned floor plans, four elevations, a roof plan, an electrical layout and a materials list. Plans run $99 to $199, one time.

Common Questions

FAQ

Will a 3-car garage make the house look garage-heavy?

It will if all three doors sit flat across the front. The designs here that work either step the third bay forward or back, give it a lower roof, or turn it to a side entry. Compare the front elevations between plans -- that drawing is where the difference is visible, and it is included in every set.

Side-by-side or tandem third bay?

Side-by-side needs roughly thirty-two feet of frontage and a wide apron, and gives three independent doors. Tandem puts the third space behind another bay on a twenty-two foot frontage, which fits a narrow lot but means shuffling vehicles to get the back one out. Tandem suits a boat or a project car; side-by-side suits three daily drivers.

Is the third bay big enough for a workshop?

In the deeper plans, yes -- a bay drawn at twenty-four feet deep takes a bench along the back wall and still parks a vehicle. If the workshop is the real purpose rather than a bonus, look at the shouse and barndominium plans instead, where the workspace is drawn as workspace with its own door and height.

Can I get these plans with a basement?

Slab is standard, and the drawings can be ordered on a crawlspace for $29 or a full basement for $49 -- the basement option is not a note on the foundation plan, it adds a dimensioned basement floor plan and a basement electrical plan to the set.