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Residential garages in Philadelphia have long been both the envy of neighbors (a designated parking spot!) and the bane of urban-planning types (they're block-killers that disrupt the streetscape!).
Lately, though, ambitious home buyers are seeing street-front garages as something different: opportunities. Across Philadelphia's developing neighborhoods, creative individuals with reverence for the city's industrial past and willingness to embark on expansive remodeling work are transforming former garages - often priced at a fraction of finished residences - into homes with loftlike living areas, custom workspaces, and, yes, even a parking space or two.
Jennie Shanker, 47, a Fishtown-based sculptor, converted a 150-year-old carriage house-turned-machinist's garage into her workshop and home about nine years ago.
"It was a complete and total shell - and in a way, that was the beauty of it," Shanker said. "It was a place to clear out into an empty box, and then turn into what I wanted it to be. Renovating a rowhouse can actually be more difficult, because there are already so many structures in place."
She laid cherry wood flooring across her second-floor living space - an old hayloft with an open grate in the floor to prove it - and then blocked off two bedrooms, leaving the rest of the space open, with scattered groupings of eclectic furniture creating living and dining areas.
Retaining the character of the structure was important to Shanker, who left exposed the brickwork along the walls, as well as the I-beams for the joists once used to hoist equipment into the loft.
"As residential usages overtake some of the city's formerly commercial neighborhoods, it's always upsetting to me when I see people rip these buildings down," Shanker added. "This way, it's great that they have another life after industry is gone."
Similarly, Doub Hanshaw, 35, and John Mahaffey, 27, sought to preserve the rough-hewn shell of their 4,500-square-foot home, which was a working auto-repair garage when they purchased it a few years ago.
After remodeling her previous home, a Fishtown rowhouse, in a "very vertical, small space, this was definitely a bigger venture," Hanshaw said. But she fell in love with the square footage and the location, just a few blocks from Girard Avenue in Kensington.
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