Garage Builders in Monmouth, ME

Monmouth village grew up along Main Street, and the older homes near Cumston Hall sit on narrow lots with sheds tucked behind them. A one-bay at 16 by 24, or a two-bay set on the footprint of a tired outbuilding, keeps the side yard open and respects the rhythm of the street.

Those houses wear clapboards, wide corner boards and steep roofs, and a new garage should look as if it arrived with them. We match the clapboard exposure, the trim width and the roof pitch so the garage reads as part of the property rather than an afterthought.

On Monmouth farmland, a garage often has to take a compact tractor, a utility trailer or a hay wagon along with the family pickup. We draw one bay with a taller door and raise the walls to suit, keeping the other bays at standard height so the roofline stays in proportion.

Pole barns are common on Monmouth farms, and they handle open storage well. For a building you plan to insulate, wire as a shop or heat, we recommend a stick-framed garage on a frost wall, because a full foundation keeps the floor dry and gives insulation and drywall a square frame to fasten to.

Cochnewagon Lake lies just off Monmouth village, and camp lots along its shore usually leave room for one modest garage uphill from the cottage. We often suggest a 12 by 24 bay with storage trusses overhead, which holds the canoe, the dock hardware and a winter's worth of firewood on a small footprint.

Within 250 feet of the lake, shoreland zoning sets the distance from the water and limits how much ground can be cleared. We plan the garage, the gravel drive and the runoff path as one design, so rain off the new roof sinks into the soil before it ever reaches Cochnewagon.