.....IN garage doors, that is.

This is what our garage looked like before.  Certainly a large enough garage to hold both a car and some storage.  But....as you can see, it was constucted with two very narrow doors.  And as my old Infiniti can attest to, I seem to have a problem judging distance in close quarters.  Enough said.  Suffice it to say, I never attempted putting that car in the garage.  We just left it in the driveway, which was fine.  Except the Florida sun tends to do a job on cars.

So you can imagine my concern when we purchased Irma (Oh, yeah....that's what I named my new Infiniti.  The old one was Ivan) and I had to leave my new "baby" out in the elements.  So....hubby gave it some thought and decided we could fix the problem.  Here's his solution.....

Doesn't it look great?  We had a contractor come out and make it ready for a full size 16 ft. garage door.  He even put in some nice windows to the right, which gives great light in daytime in the garage.  The garage door company came out last Friday and got the door installed and even my new Genie is up and running. 

Much easier for Terri to manuver Irma into her place of honor now.  And chances are her shiny exterior will stay intact, minus scrapes.

So now I'm wondering......do you have a garage?  And if you do, do you actually use it or just leave your car parked outside?

ADDENDUM TO YESTERDAY'S POST:  I want to thank all of you for your very in-depth, insightful, comments.  I really appreciated it and found it very helpful.  I'm convinced.....I have THEE best group of readers around.

Also.....Beginning this week, I'll no longer be doing the Thursday Thirteen.  While I did enjoy it, I found it to be extremely time-consuming.  I wanted to get around and read so many of the others and it was becoming more and more difficult to do so.  Therefore, I'll let the TT site know I'll be dropping out, and I'll be removing the logos on my sidebar.  The other reason for stopping is that in all honesty, I wasn't feeling "fulfilled" as a writer typing up a list of 13 things each week.....I was bored and if "I" was bored, I didn't want to take the chance of boring my reader.  But not to worry.....I'll come up with some drivel brilliant post for Thursdays.

I'm off to practice getting Irma into her new home.  See you tomorrow......