This DIY A-frame garage merges rustic simplicity with contemporary design to show off your cars in style!

The Den Garage is a DIY garage floor plan from Den Outdoors that allows owners to build their own garage while following Den Outdoors’s blueprints.

Over the past couple of years, DIY cabin floor plans have become a hot commodity. Everyone’s hoping to build their own dream cabin in the woods and get their hands on the floor plans to take them there. With all of our attention spent on tiny cabins, our cars are missing out on some love. Coupling their expansive catalog of DIY cabin floor plans with garage floor plans, Den Outdoors released downloadable PDF files for consumers to follow and build their own garages in the same style of Den Outdoors’s cabin downloads.

Presented in three different packages, Den Outdoors has available floor plans for two-car and three-car garages. The two-car garage spans 650 square feet while the three-car garage stretches a little further, covering a total of 950 square feet. Similar to the company’s collection of cabin designs, the garages maintain that same classic A-frame structure that exudes rustic energy without compromising the structure’s geometric, contemporary appeal. Adding to the garage’s modern look, Den Outdoors outfitted each garage floor plan with weather-resistant, floor-to-ceiling windows for owners to show off their cars without fear of the elements getting to them.

Inside each garage, integrated storage units provide ample space around each car for owners to store the same items that typically remain in garages, like holiday decorations and passed-down family furniture. Under the same roof, Den Outdoors incorporated a small workroom into the floor plan with a mini-split for heating and AC so owners can work on their favorite cars even through the changing seasons.

As of now, the downloadable files only comprise floor plans and 3D models for builders to follow when constructing the garage. The Starter Package contains a PDF of the schematics needed to build the garage. The Complete Package comes with the full blueprints, including 3-D models and AutoCAD files. While Den Outdoors suspects the three-car garage will amount to around $212,325 to build, the two-car garage will cost around $145,275.

Designer: Den Outdoors

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Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping

Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping
Are folks still getting lost in the faux marble expanse of your airport or shopping mall, even after you've uploaded the floor plan to Google Maps? Then maybe it's time you went the extra mile and improved indoor mapping using the official Floor Plan Marker app. It instructs you to walk around the "entire surface" of your place of interest, while gathering position data from GPS, public WiFi signals and cell towers. Once added to Google's database, this extra info will allow the familiar blue dot to function on your customers' Android phones even when your actually-concrete building gets in the way of their satellite signal. The app's already available at Google Play, so go ahead -- make the schlep now so that others don't have to.

Google offers Floor Plan Marker app to businesses so they can improve indoor mapping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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