Multi-Car Garage Design Ideas for Luxury Homes
Nine Bays, Four Garages: How Our Showcase Estate Rethinks Parking Most writing about luxury garage design starts and ends with one room: a single oversized showroom where every car lines up under the same lights. It photographs well. It rarely lives well. At our model showcase estate in Santa Fe Valley in Del Sur, San Diego, we took a different path. The main home's eight bays are split across three separate garages, and the detached ADU has a one-car garage of its own. That's nine bays in four garages, each designed for a different job. We call it garage zoning. Below, we walk through each garage and the thinking behind it: why separate garages often outperform one big one, how many bays an estate really needs, what California's EV code requires, and how to plan arrival and guest parking with wildfire safety in mind. Garage Zoning: A Different Approach to Luxury Garage Design A single eight-car garage asks one room to do everything. It has to serve as a daily entry, a gall...
