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I see flaws. Door opens and you lose a lot of space inside automatically. Hey sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Notice the No Parking sign above it. Engineer the door to open out and to the side scooping parking violator's vehicles out of the way.

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That's cool but the link after it stopped was cool as well.-

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Yeah, I kind of view that garage door like a hardtop convertible. Neat design but impracticle.
And as to the Enterprise, R/C modeling is one of those frustrated hobbies I endeavored toward as a child/teenager but never really invested in beyond the Tyco 9.6v cars and boats that stocked the shelves at xmas time. I enjoyed the shit out of them, and always wanted to get into the "big" r/c stuff but could never bring myself to pull the trigger.

I love disguised doorways and secret passageways in general. I'd love to have something like this even if I didn't strictly need it for urban space reasons. Parking in SF is rough, and in the context of my memories of what it was like to try and live there with vehicles, this particular setup is staggeringly awesome. The city should freaking _require_ homes to install this. I think trading one (public and hotly contested) curb space for four private (but provably local) spaces is a plus for the cityscape.

Neat. Not the only or the best way to do it, but still neat.

When I redid the upstairs in our old house I made the attic door in the office into a bookshelf. Kind of problematic because when you pull it shut again everything tends to fall off, so there really isn't anything on it and it looks, well, odd. OH, well.
Also kind of hard to insulate.

Probably done that way because the building code requires it

If so, a solid solution to a retarded problem, if it's just a vanity project, it's pretty fucking worthless.

/RM

I don't know. That garage looked fairly deep. Neat idea.