When we first moved to our property, it had a very small house (22'X34') that had originally been a garage. I had a new house built 16' away from the existing house, then when we moved into the new house, I tore out walls and floors to make it back into a garage. Then I built a 16'X20' breezeway to join the new house to the garage. The well had been drilled right behind the old house, so after I built the breezeway, the well is under roof.
I never intended to climate-control the breezeway, it's made with 6"X6" posts with thin walls and large storm windows, with a brick floor and an open ceiling up to the vented roof. The gas meter is right outside the back of the breezeway, and my plan is to stub off the gas line and set up a counter in the breezeway with a two-burner gas cook-top so that we can run the canner out there in the summer. I might add a sink too, using a faucet made for outside applications (it shuts off inside the wall of the house, like a hose-faucet.)
That breezeway has already been really useful. For one, it's a mud-room, great for wet muddy dogs, kids, or boots. I keep early spring plant starts inside the south-facing windows at night, and in the fall we move all our potted plants in on cold nights to extend their life by a few weeks. It's a great place to hang herbs, onions, garlic and stuff to dry. And, in the winter time, I can store a full cord of firewood in there.
