These projects that take weeks and cost oodles of dollars, I figure they deserve their time to shine. Before we moved here in '94, this house had a garage, but it fell down. We are forbidden by the city to build a new one without a permit and we probably won't get one because the building bylaws are more stringent now in terms of the space structures need form property lines and other buildings. But my car still gets covered in snow and leaves and bird poop for the cherry tree. So I spent the last month and a half building a carport. No walls, just a roof. (Besides, if it had walls, I would not be able to open the car doors.) It's built of cedar:  It's got a transparent roof so it isn't claustrophobia-inducing:  It's environmentally-aware. (I cannot bring myself to cut down tree limbs. I incorporate them.):  And it's stylin'. I was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water House in Pennsylvania:   Time: approx 60 hours over six weeks Size: 22' x 10' x 6-8' Cost: approx $1500
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