How do you use your garage?

Attached 2-car garage on a 1955 house in a city that can't have basements. It's storage because of the lack of basement, but also because modern SUV-sized cars don't fit well in the older garage.

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Two car garage. My car gits on one side, there's a bunch of crap on the other

We are very lucky to have a big double garage. Car (only one driver in this family) goes on one side, the other is workspace/storage.

Workout space. 

My son’s tool bench area.

Storage: out of season, canning supplies, luggage, go-bags, sports and camping gear

 

DH is of the mind that garages are for cars only, so that's how it's been our whole marriage (34 years). We have always had a basement or other space to store stuff and for DH to have his hobby stuff.

One of my non-negotiables when buying a house was having a two car garage. It gets snowy here in the winter and I didn’t want to undig the cars or have to park outside during heavy rain and potentially have tree branches come down on the cars. I definitely try to keep the garage neat because I want to continue parking in there, although we also use it to store tools, bikes, sports equipment and garbage cans (cans could potentially go outside but we also get the occasional bear so I’d rather keep them in the garage until garbage day!)

Ours is a typical 2car--I've always parked my car in the garage, the other vehicle has always been a truck that won't fit in our garage.  We moved the w/d out there many years ago, DH has a workbench, there is a 2nd refrigerator/freezer, and lots of storage.

I had to pick Oprah because for us it’s a mix of both cars and storage equally. We have a four car attached garage but only two cars are in it most of the time. We have a classic car that lives in it, my car gets parked in it, but DH has a lot of tools and work related things stored in it too. Plus an ATV that we use for plowing snow and occasional yard work, a motorcycle that is DH’s baby, and a literal ton of random junk that DH occasionally takes in for recycling. In the winter he tries to clear out a spot for his pickup truck too, but the work vehicle is too big so it has to be parked outside.

ETA: We also have an extra refrigerator and two freezers in our garage. Our lawnmower is stored inside a trailer because we take it across town to mow at our rental property every week. Speaking of the rental, that house has a 2.5 car attached garage and it is piled to the rafters with stuff. She has one vehicle that won’t fit because she has so much other crap in there.

We built our shed in the early aughts and we barely fit our big pickups in there now! DH has a F250 with the full crew cab and long box. He leaves his hitch on and the truck has to be pulled in almost to the wall and you have to scooch around that hitch to get past it. Of course it is parked in the first spot and I have to scooch around it to get to my rig when he is home! Damn, I have smacked my shin on that SOB too many times!

I live in a small Canadian prairie city, so that likely colours my view of a "garage purpose"! It's too freaking cold and snowy to park outside in the winter if it can at all be avoided!!! (And we don't really have great public transit options, so everyone has their own car.)

We have a finished basement with a furnace/storage room that has a work bench, and a cold room that also houses a fridge and freezer. We have a garden shed that keeps my garden tools and our little push lawnmover. We have a second shed on the other end of the house that used to house an ATV but now keeps random things like the pressure washer, the bikes that no one uses since they got cars, and some old golf bags/clubs that really just need to go away. Our attic is not usable space and is accessed by a panel in the ceiling of our master closet ... I think someone has needed to go up there exactly once since we moved in 21 years ago.

There is a 2.5 car heated garage attached to our house. Two vehicles park inside, as well as my beloved ebike. It has some cupboards that hold things like outside decor items, but about half of them are empty. There used to be hockey/ringette equipment lockers down one wall so my kids and dh could unpack their bags and hang everything to dry after each use, but now that no one plays minor sports any more, that wall is just empty except for some snow shovels leaning against it, and my golf clubs resting beside them. We also have a snow blower that lives in the garage, close to an outlet because it needs to be plugged in to start. We have always used the garage for parking, but there was a little span of years when we had three vehicles, so one had to park outside, and when we only had two vehicles but one was too tall to fit through the door, so had to park outside, too.

Five years ago, we built a detached garage/shop/office in our back yard. It's oversized, so my dh's gigantic work trucks can fit to park inside, and there are always two vehicles parked in the shop. It also has a mezzanine level where dh has his office, and a whole wall of huge metal shelving for his assorted work and play stuff. The back wall has a full span of metal cupboards with a work bench. The remaining side wall has a skate sharpener and the big metal workbench/toolbench that it sits on. There's a little 'nook' with a small overhead door that leads to the yard that currently houses a ping pong table and a glass fronted drink cooler/fridge (from a restaurant supply place).

We've always been "garage is for the cars first, and then whatever else fits and doesn't have a better home" people

Around here it's pretty common to not use the garage for cars. We have a two car garage that my EX converted into his office. He pays me rent for the space which at this point is more important. If money wasn't an issue I wouldn't mind parking in there (OR using it for storage, the attic where everything is kept is a pain to get in/out of). Someday!

We have a 2 car garage.

In the last 2 years since we've moved in, I've had stretches where I can park my car in there. I told my DH that if he filled my side full of shit, he had to go out and warm my car and scrape it for me in the winter. ;P

However, my family is coming to visit and I threatened him within an inch of his life to clean the shit out. He's making good progress, but I still probably won't park in there during the summer. It makes it easier for the kids to drag their bikes, toys, soccer nets and all that stuff out if I just park in the driveway. However my ass will be in there by first flake. LOL

We have a two car garage but it only fits one car. When we bought our house the garage came with a very nice, but big tool bench, tools, storage cabinets and some ladders. All of those things are nice to have so we park our other car either in our drive way or on the street. Our washer and dryer are also in our garage.