Many of the residents of homes on our street, despite having double garages, tend to park their vehicles, or if the household has several, in the driveways rather than housing them in the structure meant to hold them. The reason simply is that garages tend to be stuffed with household items that find no permanent place within the house because of their purpose.
Surprisingly, though many of the homeowners on the street have installed swimming pools in their backyards, many have dispensed with that far more useful and so often necessary home accompaniment to a lot with lawns and gardens: garden sheds. Those functional little buildings are beyond useful, depending on size giving ample storage not only to gardening tools but to bicycles and other items that would leave the garage free to be used for the purpose it was meant for.
We don't have a swimming pool taking up all the space in our small backyard, but we did understand the usefulness of garden sheds, and we have long had one small shed for the storage of garden tools and accessories and a larger one meant to store the snow thrower, shovels, ladders and all manner of household items my husband deems more readily accessible there, and outdoor-required. Now, he is making the larger of the sheds that he built four years ago, even more functional. He has built a large, heavy-duty shelf to hold items like seasonal tires to free up even more space in the garage. Lifted well above the floor, the shelf represents another useful storage tier under which will be stored items of other usage.
His mind never seems to rest on the laurels of his past upgrades to the usefulness of the house exterior and its attractive presence, just as during the winter months he plans many other sequential projects to keep his mind and his body well limbered and alert to possibilities that would never occur to me.
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