Quote Originally Posted by Wulf202 View Post
A couple of thoughts. Extend the garage to create the shop space and allow for parking? Convert a different room or area to a shop? Cut a secondary driveway into the west property line and add a carport/rv parking? Double your driveway and in front of the porch add a carport? I think a shed on the west side of the house would be the best area bring in some dirt and a small retaining wall to have level ground.

Have the garage wired for the shop anyways (how are you powering the shop smith?) and add an exterior or near the door outlet. There's electrician contacts here if you can't diy. I'd do this just to have holiday lighting.

Personally I'd get a carport with the solid roof, paint pink flamingos on it and give the busy bodies a stroke. The covers take time and have failure points that remind me of people who think they'll put their seat belt on when they are in danger.
Those are GREAT ideas. We've got to update the wiring in our garage to handle the equipment we have in there, but there's a big Juniper that's on the side of the driveway- if we remove it, we could feasibly set up a car port, maybe.

The busybodies are always fun to tease. Right now, they're having fits about the unpainted trailer on the side of the driveway.

We have no HOA, but there is some sort of "architect committee" that must approve certain changes (such as changing the sliding glass deck door to french doors. This drives me insane) so I'd have to see if a Carport with a hard roof would need approval.

I also like the idea of a shed on the west side of the house.