Alternatives to a golf cart garage
 

If you cannot find a vacant lot, to accommodate a GC garage, or you purchase an existing home without a GC garage, what are some creative ways to store the GC, if you also have 2 cars? Can you add a GC garage onto the back of your home? Or, can you stretch the lanai, add some type of double/barn doors to the end of the lanai and drive the cart inside the lanai? Hubby and I would be very interested in hearing some creative solutions. Thank you in advance.

I looked at a house that had a stretched two car garage and they had made a driveway to the left side of the house and put a golf cart door on the side of the garage, closest to the house, so you could park the cart sideways, in front of the cars! I thought that was amazingly ingenious!

Thank you for sharing this GREAT idea. I knew there had to be some type of creative solution.

Before buying a house with the intent of doing some creative addition I would run it by Architectural Review.
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Great advice Bogie Shooter. We have built 4 homes (VA, CO, NC, and SC). Each build had its own, unique challenges and restrictions to consider. Thank you for reminding us to do our due diligence. TOTV rocks!!!

You can add build or waht ever within your setbacks look at the lot plan the dashed lines R your to with what U want (with approvals).

You can park on your lanai, don't think that takes approval

There is a house on cane garden, that parks their cart at the back of the house by the lanai. Looks kind of strange, but no one behind him sooooooo.

If you bought a Gardenia, you could add a golf car garage between the current garage and the front door. They have a model like that now, I think the Lily or Iris? You lose the window in the kitchen.

My real solution was unique. I really wanted that golf cart space. We looked at larger homes, but really loved our location so we actually bought a second house with a golf cart garage a one minute walk away. I put up a wall in the garage between the main garage and the golf cart garage and use the second home as a rental property.

Thanks, everyone.....as usual, great feedback and ideas to add to our list. We were also wondering if anyone has seen/heard of anyone building a golf cart garage on the back of their home...this configuration would obviously require some type of sidewalk to be poured, from the front of the house, to the back, as well as permission; however, at this point, just wondering if anyone has seen/heard of anything like this. Again, we thank everyone who took their time to provide great information on this topic.:bigbow:

There is a 2 car garage home on Loma Paseo Drive in the village of La Reynalda with a golf cart garage in the rear off the multi modal path, quite unique. The house was up for sale a few months ago.

I know someone who has a 2 car garage and parks 2 big cars in the garage, with the golf cart parked sideways behind one of the "very long" cars! It works, in the absence of a golf cart garage but takes some maneuvering to fit the golf cart sideways.

Another idea to put in the file. Thanks, so much, for passing along a creative solution. Enjoy your day in Paradise.

WOW....kudos to you, on such a creative solution. You need to teach a class!!!!

Thanks, Jimbo. I can always count on you, for sage advice. Hubby and I hope to be down, in the next 1 or 2 months, to select a lot. We are just waiting on his company to finalize his relocation timeline. Some of the lot premiums, online, are reasonable; however, some are absolutely staggering (location, location, location). This is going to be an interesting process. Did you select a lot with kissing lanai's? That topic seems to get a lot of 'spirited' debates on this forum. When we were on our LSV, we were a little surprised at how close the back neighbors can be. I am thinking some creative landscaping will help, but hubby seems to want more privacy. Again, this is going to be an interesting process. Enjoy your day.

Just make sure to take heed to your deed restrictions.

We switched to smaller cars (KIA Sorento & VW Beetle) and park the cart sideways in front of the KIA. When it's golf cart time, I just back out the KIA. It's a little extra effort but all three are of the driveway and safely in the garage. We have an Amarillo.