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How to Upgrade Your Metal Garage

By Wholesale Direct Carports / December 17, 2017

Detached metal garages are gaining in popularity as an inexpensive option to building an addition to a home. There are many reasons to install a metal garage as your next home improvement project. Once you have your metal garage, you can begin to upgrade it. Here are just a few ways how: Install an Automatic…

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Customizing Your Detached Garage

By Wholesale Direct Carports / December 10, 2017

When you are looking to purchase a detached enclosed garage, there are many options available to customize your structure. Do you need an A-frame roof, walk-in doors, windows? Would you like a standard frame or welded trusses? Knowing exactly what you want can be a little overwhelming if you don’t know what the options are.…

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7 Tips for a Successful Garage Sale

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 24, 2017

Your garage has turned into a storage unit of all the things you don’t want or need or all the things that no longer fit in your proper home. A great idea is to offload all this excess stuff and make some money while you’re at it. If you are ready to purge, you could…

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6 of the World’s Coolest Garages

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 21, 2017

Typically, when we think of a parking garage, we think of the dark, multilevel towers found in most big cities. In various places around the world, architectural genius has been on display through creative parking garages. Here is a list of some of the world’s coolest garages. Parkhaus Engelenschanze Master architects in Stuttgart, Germany wanted…

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Give Your Garage a Face-lift

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 20, 2017

One of the best ways to add curb appeal to your home is to give your home a makeover. There are several ways to this, such as landscaping, adding a front porch, or painting your house. The biggest, solid section of the curb-facing part of your house, is typically your garage door. The easiest way…

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How to Turn Your Garage into a Home Office

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 17, 2017

If you work from home or you are an entrepreneur wanting to start your own business, your garage can be a great home office. Using your garage as an office is perfect because it gets you out of the house so you can feel more like you are going to work, but you don’t have…

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If My Garage Walls Could Talk

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 17, 2017

If your garage walls could talk and tell all they’ve seen, what would they say? Hopefully, they’d keep your secrets, but if they didn’t, would you care? If my garage walls could talk, it would be relatively boring but would go a little something like this: I saw that haphazard shelf you built and I’ll…

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A Brief History of the Garage

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 16, 2017

Much reverence has been given to the modern automobile over the years, but not many congratulations have been given to the house that was built for it; the garage. The garage has evolved from a haphazardly built carriage house, into a full spectrum of attached and detached structures, to rooms that are fully integrated into…

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Historical Garage: the Birthplace of Silicon Valley

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 16, 2017

California is home to some of the most famous garages in the world. Companies such as Apple, Disney, Google, Maglite, Mattel, and Hewlett-Packard are all multi-billion dollar businesses that started out in garages in California. Perhaps the most famous garage in the world, and still a protected historical landmark (#976) in Palo Alto, California, the…

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5 World Famous Businesses that Began in Garages

By Wholesale Direct Carports / November 15, 2017

Garages are extensions of our homes. For entrepreneurs, a garage is an extension of their workspace, and sometimes it is their office. The garage is a strong contender for winning “Best Place to Start Your Business.” Some of the highest grossing companies of our time were started in a garage. Let’s take a look at…

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