Unfortunately, most wood garage kit choices are limited to steel buildings of one form or another. There’s nothing wrong with a quality steel building kit, of course, but many traditionalists would much rather build with wood.

Kate wrote:

I need a large garage, should I say, the equivalent of two car: with large overhead door and one walk-in. I’ve been unable to find kits other than steel and don’t want that.

Finding a wood garage kit isn’t that difficult if you look in the right place.

The trick, of course, is knowing where the right place is …

A good number of wooden post and beam barn/garage kits might fit the bill.

Country Carpenters in Hebron, Connecticut and Shelter-Kit in Tilton, New Hampshire, and Sand Creek Post and Beam in Wayne, Nebraska are a few that come to mind.

You might want to find a post and beam shop that’s somewhat near your neck of the woods, to hold down the shipping charges and to lend assistance with construction, if necessary.

The packages contain everything that you will need to build a garage on your own. In the package you will find the plans, the hardware and the lumber to build a great garage. You will have to have a cement slab to get started on your garage.

You should ask at the lumber yard if you would like to design your own [tag]garage[/tag]. They will help you to design the garage and give you all of the materials that you will need. What you will find in the package is the sheathing that you will need for the roof, the shingles and the bottom plate.

The garage doors will also be included along with the windows. There will most likely be trim included in your [tag]garage package[/tag]. When you are going to buy your garage package you should take a look at all of the plans that are available to get the kind that you would like to have. Some of the packages are made up of panels that will snap right together to give you a continuous wall that is more energy efficient than other kinds of garages.

It is possible to get one of these packages completed in less than a day, but if you don’t manage to get all of the work done, the company will deliver the lumber when you need it so that you don’t have a pile of lumber in front of your house for too long.