Not for Just Your Father’s Oldsmobile

The American garage is where bands are born, family cribs and rockers are given new life, and old trash awaits its transformation into treasure. It is also, occasionally, where the car is kept.

In a celebration of the multifaceted role the garage has come to play, Kira Obolensky has written Garage: Reinventing the Place We Park, published by Taunton Press. She takes readers on a colorful, coast-to-coast tour of that once-unassuming space that has morphed into the home office, the playroom, the tinker shop, the laboratory, and the soundstage and studio.

Whether the car-free portion of the garage is situated above the parking stalls or takes over one of them, Garage offers practical tips on construction, lighting and organization, including effective ways to fit all of one’s interests and a car into one space.

Packed with more than 200 photos and floor plans, Garage gives readers ideas and inspiration to create one of the most unique, effective and stylish rooms not in the house.