Give Your Carport Another Purpose
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by: SamualM.Adams
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Adding a carport to your house is a great boost for your home equity. More importantly though, it is more about what you are able to do with your carport while you are living in you home that determines whether you should think about adding one. Most people only think of one thing when it comes to building a carport on their house - protection for a car or truck. But if were to expand your mind for a minute, I'm sure you can see that there are some very interesting alternative uses other than vehicle storage.
I friend of mine loves to entertain. His parties are legendary. He always manages to combine the right guests and food and his parties, big and small are always raved about. He lives on the west coast and regularly laments that he can't trust the weather to cooperate with his party planning. This conundrum is experienced by many that live in British Columbia, Washington State, or Oregon State. In a flash of party planning brilliance he added a double wide carport to the side of his house!
I don't think my carport has seen more than 5 days worth of car storage in it's life. Instead I used a really cheap and fast carport kit to build myself a fabulous outdoor entertainment area. I ran a garden hose to a sink and hooked up one of those nifty Lee Valley Tools tap extenders, and ran the drain to one of my flower beds. Roll in my stainless steel bar-b-q, and I have the most convenient kitchen in the great outdoors that I could ever wish for.
Carports can come in all sorts of different varieties. The most common type of carport is the one that attached to the side of your home or to the side of another structure. These types of carports generally have a single slop roof or a flat roof. The decision to have a flat roof allows you the potential to build a second story on top of the car port.
There are also free standing carports or stand alone carports. These structures are generally constructed away from the home and are generally used to store seasonal vehicles like RVs or farm equipment. Some creative souls have constructed free standing carports for use as picnic shelters. In this manner the carport is used much like a gazebo.
Figuring out other uses for you carport is really only limited by your imagination, and with the help of a few novel ideas found while surfing the internet, get ready to take your extra outdoor storage space beyond it's intended utilitarian function, and get ready to create some fabulous outdoor party memories!
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