San Diego Jim Sorenson

Your garage is for your cars, right? Most of us treat the garage as that huge storage place attached to the house, where your junk goes until you need it, but you never need it. But savvy people know better. Families around the country use the garage for any variety of reasons.

With modern houses almost always equipped with automatic garage door systems these days, the garage door itself often becomes the main access to the home, replacing the front door as the place where the family enters and leaves. Kids coming in with bikes, Dads coming in with lawn mowers, Moms coming in with gardening tools, everybody uses the garage. It's not just for parking the car anymore.