Epic. The bright wood and glass is just my style. Add Ferrari, Ducati, Herman Miller chair and ottoman, the Helmet, the car models on glass shelves... damn... I am weak in the knees.
@trev: I was in very nice house once and the owner told me he had purchased said chair at Herman Miller. Since my office chair is from there I just presumed.
@Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Man... I need glasses I guess... but I thought all those bikes owners were dead by this point. 1100 Ginxr? Crackpipe!
@livinlvis: Check your building code and get back to me. One hour fire separation between different uses required.
A garage doesn't have to be rated, but a shared wall/floor/ceiling between a garage and a living space does require a fire rating. Most circumstances manage it fine with a little drywall and most folks would never notice.
That whole place looks a little too Ikea Showroom to have a Ferrari in it. I'd suggest a Saab Sonnet III or maybe a Volvo P1800ES. I suppose a Koenissegg would count, but just barely.
The question, then, is which you will want to be repo'd: the Ferrari and leave behind a treacherous house, or the house, leaving behind a Ferrari and a bike and live on handicapped parking spaces?
"Coming up on the next episode of 'Your Ego Home':
First, we'll tell you how to freeze-dry your trophy wife before she wrinkles. Then, we'll build a glass display case for her next to the Ferrari. Finally, we'll install mirrors on all vertical surfaces of your house so you can walk around naked admiring your manhood."
@JC Whitless: I once visited some people who had a gorgeous gloss-black $60,000 Steinway grand piano in the living room. As a piano player myself, I was extremely impressed - until I found out that no-one in the family knew how to play it.
@smalleyxb122: Depends on the area. Basement garages are pretty common all over the Southeast, at least. Saves a lot of footprint on the house, but if either of our cars ignited, our living room would be the first to go.
AFAIK, the only universal requirement is a "step-down" to the garage so that heavier-than-air gases can't seep into the living area. That's why even slab homes have a couple steps down into the garage.
@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): Basement garages, in upstate NY at least, seem to be common on houses built on hillsides in the 50s and 60s. Fire hazards aside, it makes sense from a design standpoint.
@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): My garage is, more or less, a basement garage, since my "house" is really an apartment perched atop a 6 car garage. It was built in the '40s, so there is some grandfathering, but the garage ceiling is fully plastered as a fire stop. Open rafters would be very little impedance to a fire.
Current code for anywhere that I'm familiar with requires at least drywall and a steel door on the adjacent wall for attached garages to, at least, slow the spread of fire to the living area.
After being @ 9K feet in CO, I can say basement garages rock the casbah.
Ours was huge. "Only" a two car garage, yet it held two large cars (one Intrepid one Grand Cherokee), three large, yet not Harley, motorcycles, a large sofa which could be used where it stood, an appropriately large snow-thrower, and tools, yet wasn't ever the slightest bit crowded.
I really wish idiots hadn't moved in, next door. We might still live there.
@that ain't the way to have fun, son: Yeah, we've got 2 cars, all of our storage (no attic space), a workshop area, and a full workout area with free weights, treadmill, pullup/ring gear, etc. Plus easy access to all the plumbing, HVAC, and electrical.
Full footprint garage basements are definitely nice. But speaking to insulation, there is none. When I look up from the cars, it's just plywood subfloor and joists. Our house would be toast if there were a car fire.
Yeah, car fire was a definite potential hazard in our place. The garage was finished, so the ceiling was insulated, as were the non-ground-facing walls (and the doors), but still, a car going up would have cooked us before we knew it was happening.
@smalleyxb122: RE: drive-in basements:
When my wife bought our current home a couple of years before we married, she was required to sheet-rock the garage area and build dividing walls between the cars and the furnace & water heater. Same thing with my sister's home in St. Louis. I helped my brother-in-law sheetrock the garage ceiling—something I never plan on doing again!
@Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig): We rented a house with a drive-in basement (not a garage next to the basement, literally a garage door in the basement, pulling the car in between the water heater and the laundry station), which I thought was awesome in respect to working on cars since i could pull in right up to the workshop area. The downside was that it resulted in a ton of heat loss in the winter, to the point where I didn't pull into the garage unless necessary.
You certainly couldn't build anything like this arrangement now. In fact, a coworker was complaining just the other day that it violates code to run HVAC ducts into an attached garage b/c of the potential of fumes to travel into the house through them.
@YankBoffin: Wow, that's exactly what we have (forced air ducts in the basement, along with the cars). The heat loss isn't too terrible, given that a cold winter night in Alabama is 20 degrees. The basement gets some sympathetic climate control from the main house, which makes it a nice transition area between outside and in.
Most newer houses are slab construction (for cost), so the last homes in our style seem to have disappeared in the early 90s. Nonetheless, still a great use of space.
What you're missing Matt is that this is actually a storage solution for the timeless Suzuki Katana, with the red Ferrari merely serving to provide a vibrant background to its classy black paint.
@Wes Siler: More like a custom Bandit 1200 or 1200S, the Katana has a crapload of cheap plastic around it was a junker of a sportbike that was allowed to exist far to long.
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That is not a Herman Miller chair.
That is the single greatest piece of furniture ever created. It is the Eames Chair. Herman Miller sells it.
It is the most comfortable thing ever created.
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I'm just glad you recognize the greatness of the chair, regardless if you know what chair it is. <3
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Yea, Herman Miller carries a lot of high end designed furniture. I'd guess your chair at work is the Aeron Chair?
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I'm almost glad it's a Jap bike, owning exclusively expensive Italian machinery can seem a bit strained and poseresque.
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@Pessimippopotamus: It is. [www.flickr.com]
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And I hope that glass and enclosure has a one-hour fire label. Sprinklers much?
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A garage doesn't have to be rated, but a shared wall/floor/ceiling between a garage and a living space does require a fire rating. Most circumstances manage it fine with a little drywall and most folks would never notice.
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This is my dream, "Living Garage":
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@Novaload:
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My dream too, only I want mine on Planet Risa.
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I have to keep mine in a rack.
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#tips
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First, we'll tell you how to freeze-dry your trophy wife before she wrinkles. Then, we'll build a glass display case for her next to the Ferrari. Finally, we'll install mirrors on all vertical surfaces of your house so you can walk around naked admiring your manhood."
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This would be exactly like having a pool table in your house.
All sorts of fun and great times, till the kids begin to use it as a landscape for army men and the wife is folding towels on it.
This isn't what you do to a car you love? You drive a car you love. This is someone who is treating it like furniture.
Do you know what people do on furniture?
The same things people do on pool tables.
Also, anyone know how I can fix a pool table? I have one in the basement that, ahem, broke recently since my wife and I got back from our honeymoon...
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Look at how many have nice cars, yet don't know how to drive them....
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But I guess when you have Ferrari money (even if it's "just" a 355), anything is possible.
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AFAIK, the only universal requirement is a "step-down" to the garage so that heavier-than-air gases can't seep into the living area. That's why even slab homes have a couple steps down into the garage.
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Current code for anywhere that I'm familiar with requires at least drywall and a steel door on the adjacent wall for attached garages to, at least, slow the spread of fire to the living area.
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After being @ 9K feet in CO, I can say basement garages rock the casbah.
Ours was huge. "Only" a two car garage, yet it held two large cars (one Intrepid one Grand Cherokee), three large, yet not Harley, motorcycles, a large sofa which could be used where it stood, an appropriately large snow-thrower, and tools, yet wasn't ever the slightest bit crowded.
I really wish idiots hadn't moved in, next door. We might still live there.
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Full footprint garage basements are definitely nice. But speaking to insulation, there is none. When I look up from the cars, it's just plywood subfloor and joists. Our house would be toast if there were a car fire.
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Yeah, car fire was a definite potential hazard in our place. The garage was finished, so the ceiling was insulated, as were the non-ground-facing walls (and the doors), but still, a car going up would have cooked us before we knew it was happening.
The master bed/bath was over said garage.
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When my wife bought our current home a couple of years before we married, she was required to sheet-rock the garage area and build dividing walls between the cars and the furnace & water heater. Same thing with my sister's home in St. Louis. I helped my brother-in-law sheetrock the garage ceiling—something I never plan on doing again!
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You certainly couldn't build anything like this arrangement now. In fact, a coworker was complaining just the other day that it violates code to run HVAC ducts into an attached garage b/c of the potential of fumes to travel into the house through them.
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Most newer houses are slab construction (for cost), so the last homes in our style seem to have disappeared in the early 90s. Nonetheless, still a great use of space.
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"A 2CV travelling at 60mph will easily outpace a Ferrari travelling at 50mph"
Might be time to revisit that one.