We had a family in our neighborhood that enclosed their garage and made it a playroom for the kids,,all internal, left the garage door in place. There were no windows in the room.
Last I heard they got fined by the city fire dept because the only way out of that room was through the kitchen...there were no external doors. So it was considered a fire hazard.
Every house is different. I’ve seen people remove the door and build a nice wall with a window,,all kinds of things.
Also, I know of at last one subdivision in the Austin area that does not allow anything in the garage but a car...that would be Riverplace,,and all the cars must be parked in the garage. I don’t know how families with more cars than garage space are managed.
“Also, I know of at last one subdivision in the Austin area that does not allow anything in the garage but a car...that would be Riverplace,,and all the cars must be parked in the garage. I don’t know how families with more cars than garage space are managed.”
These restrictions are put in place by the developer so the place looks nice while he’s still selling homes. Then, they turn them over to people who have never had more than a thousand dollars in their account at one time. These neo-Nazis now have $100,000 and the power to make virtually everybody do whatever they like. They can sue and seize houses. Google “Evil” and “HOA” and you’ll get hundreds of horror stories. When Bush was governor in Florida the legislature passed a bill to limit what HOA’s could do, but he refused to sign it. (I lost all respect and never want him as president.)