3 free starting plans
2 car garage plans
Three 2 car garages: a compact 20x20, the classic 24x24 and a 24x30 with a bench at the back. Choose one wide door or two single doors; the header, the slab and the trusses follow.
- Plans
- 3
- Floor, sq ft
- 400 to 720
- Materials, about
- $9,500 to $15,300
- Preliminary checks
- All passed at 30 psf
Every size, drawn by the designer
Pick a 2 car garage size.
Each one is a full starting plan: framed, checked for 30 psf of ground snow, 115 mph of wind and a 36 in frost line, and priced. Switch the view to see the frame or the dimensions.
Drawn by the designer from this plan24x24
24x24 two-car garage
The classic two-car garage: a 16 x 7 ft door, a walk door and two windows on 9 ft walls. At 576 sq ft it can skip the frost-depth footing where the code exemption applies.
- Floor
- 576 sq ft
- Walls
- 9 ft
- Doors
- 16' x 7' overhead, walk door
- Trusses
- 13 at 2', 24' span
- Slab
- 4 in, thickened edge
30 of 30 automated checks passed · 4 external items remain. Local approval not checked. 1 item for your builder or engineer: seismic design category.
Materials about $11,900, before tax and delivery
What it needs
One wide door or two.
The door is the choice that changes the most: it sets the header, the piers and the bracing.
01Doors
A 16 ft door or two 9 ft doors.
Most garage doors are 9' for one car and 16' for two, 7' tall (rule SIZE-01). The 20x20 and the 24x24 use one 16' door. The 24x30 uses two 9' doors with a pier between them, which frames with sawn headers.
03Snow and wind
Every check runs at your loads.
These starting plans are drawn for 30 psf of ground snow, 115 mph of wind and a 36 in frost line. Change the snow, the wind or the frost line in the designer and the headers, the studs, the trusses and the footing follow. Above 70 psf of ground snow the roof needs an engineer, and the designer says so.
Side by side
The 3 2 car garage plans compared.
| Plan | Floor | Walls | Doors | Trusses | Materials, about | Labor if hired, broad reference | Build time | Checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20x2020x20 two-car garage | 400 sq ft | 9 ft | 16' x 7' overhead, walk door | 11 at 2' | $9,500 | $8,000 to $20,000 | 75 to 110 h | Passed, 1 for your builder |
| 24x2424x24 two-car garage | 576 sq ft | 9 ft | 16' x 7' overhead, walk door | 13 at 2' | $11,900 | $11,520 to $28,800 | 85 to 130 h | Passed, 1 for your builder |
 24x3024x30 two-car garage | 720 sq ft | 9 ft | 9' x 7' overhead, 9' x 7' overhead, walk door | 16 at 2' | $15,300 | $14,400 to $36,000 | 125 to 185 h | Passed, 1 for your builder |
Each row is the starting plan as drawn, for 30 psf of ground snow, 115 mph of wind and a 36 in frost line. Materials are rounded: shelf prices plus the estimated trusses and concrete, before sales tax, delivery, labor and site work. Each plan page keeps the shelf prices, the estimate and the exact sum apart. Labor is the published range for hiring it out, a broad reference and not a quote; build time is total labor hours. Passed means the preliminary checks passed for those loads; local approval is not checked.
What they cost
What a 2 car garage costs.
Materials for the three plans at dated store prices. The 16 ft LVL header is priced at store prices, the trusses from published ranges.
- Materials, about
- $9,500 to $15,300
- Per sq ft of floor
- $20.67 to $23.77
- Labor if hired
- $8,000 to $36,000
- Lines priced
- 46
Excluded: sales tax, delivery, permits, site work and excavation, engineering, electrical, door openers, paint and equipment rental
The garage cost guide breaks it down by group, and the garage cost calculator runs the same numbers for your own size.
Materials for each 2 car garage plan
Shelf prices from Lowe's, Home Depot and Summertown Metals, read Sep 30, 2026 to Oct 25, 2026. Trusses and concrete estimated from published ranges.
Each total is the shelf-price lines plus the trusses and the concrete, estimated from published ranges and kept apart on each plan page.
Labor if hired, 20x20: $8,000 to $20,000. A broad reference from published price guides, not a quote or a forecast for your site.
The $79 builder's plan
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Every plan above is free to open, check and price. The builder's plan is drawn from the garage you finish, for one payment. These are real sheets from the 34-sheet plan for the 24x24 garage.
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- The design in 3D, and every change you make to it
- Every preliminary check, with its rule
- The materials list priced line by line
- A summary PDF of the design and its checks
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- The dimensioned layout
- Every wall framed, with openings and heights
- The roof frame
- The cut list, the shopping list with store prices and the build, step by step
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Real sheets from the 34-sheet sample plan for the 24x24 garage
01Foundation and slab
02Complete before construction
03Build steps
04Shopping list
Questions
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Questions about 2 car garage plans
Our three 2-car plans run 20x20 (400 sq ft), 24x24 (576 sq ft) and 24x30 (720 sq ft). The 24x24 is the one most people start from; the 20x20 is the tightest, and the 24x30 leaves room for a bench behind the cars.
One 2-car door is usually 16' wide and 7' tall; two single doors are 9' each (rule SIZE-01, a common product size, not a code minimum). Our 24x24 draws the wide door and our 24x30 the two single doors with a pier between them.
The code header tables stop short of a 16' opening, so the header is an LVL. In a gable end, as on our 24x24, a 2-ply 1-3/4 x 11-7/8 in LVL carries it at 30 psf; under the trusses of a 24 ft wide garage it takes a 2-ply 1-3/4 x 14 in. The designer sizes it from the maker's load table for your snow load and building width.
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