I have a small house- Bikes used to live in the garage which has a door from the hall so they really lived in their own room in the house. Problem was that I also used to find the kids toys in there and the pile of washing that apparantly was mine and as I have run out of shirts- you had better get washing then.

So I got a bike shed. All my bikes live in there and that is it. Plenty of room to work on them and if I get back muddy from a ride- I can clean the bike after the bath instead of before when I am soaking wet and cold.

Bikes deserve their own space- just like anyone else and if mine had to live in the house they would have to pay their own way. Can just imagine what a pile of wet clothing draped over them would do to the cables. Or what the grandkids would do to them.