Can a garage ever be too big?

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I've currently got a large single garage seperate to the house: 6.8m x 3.3m. It fits one large family car (VW Passat) with a good sized workbench. I'm needing to expand as I'd like "indoor" space to store or work on 2 cars. I was simply going to double the width but builder and architect have both suggested I maximise the size of what I build for the future. That has got me thinking, and I've got a sketch done of a 6.6m x 11m garage. Can a garage be too big? There's plenty garden space around the house.

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OP here: having had a think as big as I can is my answer!

Had another sketch, of a 'double width' and 'double length' job which I'm liking the look of. Primary use will be to store cars as I'm not the best mechanic... and I've 2 cars that need to be kept indoors long term. And that would allow those 2 cars to be stored on one side, a work bench and plenty space on the other side to work on one vehicle, or store 2 more.

With a bit of time this could turn in to a build thread.

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Resurrecting this thread. Here's a sketch of roughly what is going to now have plans made and submitted.

Might as well push for as big as possible.

sketch by S Brown, on Flickr