So we recently met with our builder out at the site to show us the exact location of the house on the lot. Boy were we super excited about that!! To our chagrin, the house was no where near were we had talked about it being with him on the lot and to top it off we received some bad news :( He said if we wanted to keep the 3 car garage the house would have to stay where he had it positioned and even then we may not get it! He was strongly, and I do mean STRONGLY encouraging us to scrap the three car garage all together. Greg and I wanted the house as far forward as possible on the lot so that the backyard was big for the dogs and the (someday) pool. Dreamers, yes we are :) We talked with the builder about all the possible options and left with heavy hearts. It is so hard to hear something you had counted on isn't going to happen.
I know it sounds bratty asking for a three car garage, as so many people make do with a two car, one car, or (like us currently) no garage, it's just we have a lot of vehicles. Again, another statement that could be construed bratty, but I don't mean it that way. We have our two personal vehicles, Greg's work vehicle, and my parents old MGB that needs completely redone. Where are we supposed to put all of these vehicles?!! Pretty sure the neighbors would prefer that the hillbillies don't move in next door with all kinds of vehicles (some not functional) everywhere.
So as we drove back home we talked and talked about what to do. Both of us were on the fence about what made the most sense for us now and in the long run. There was another wrench thrown into these plans as well. There is a bonus room above our garage that was originally going to be bigger with the three car garage. We had planned, down the line, to put an on-suite bathroom in this room since the one downside of the house plan was that it currently only has one full bathroom upstairs. Mind you this is not a huge problem now since it is just the two of us building a castle in the sky (yep I just went there ha ha) but down the line I can see that as a big issue with a couple kiddos. So if the garage went down in size it also meant that the bonus room would too and the potential space for a bathroom. Eek!
It seems we debated forever until we both just threw in the towel and decided that yard space was much more important to us than garage space. After all, nine or ten months ago I began the campaign for a new house with a big fenced yard and doggy door for our two pups. Wouldn't it just be so ironic if we kept the three car and the yard was smaller?! We both thought so too, without any human babies in the picture our dog babies are really like our children and their needs are important too!
With that being said, I still had several reservations. Where would the extra vehicles go? Where would all of the lawn stuff go? As of now, we have decided to make the cement pad in front of the garage bigger so Greg's work vehicle can just stay out there and my car can get out of its bay ok. Maybe not a perfect solution, but bottom line is the yard for the pups was a bigger priority. Who knows maybe we will have vehicles everywhere and the neighbors will just have to deal, but for now we have found some peace with the decision. As for the extra bathroom down the line, that remains to be seen. The room is still large and there is a big walk-in closet in the room next door we could take some space from, so when the time comes we will just have to figure it out! It's building the dream, but nobody said everything was gonna be perfect and we had to have it all figured out right now after all:)
