This is my M.O. too.* I also park on the far side of the rack from the entrance to the bike cage at work so that there is plenty of room for people to easily get in and out. People with smaller bikes are able to easily park on that side of the rack, but with a large frame, fenders, racks, I can't really get my bike too deep into the rack and it sticks out quite a bit, which is even worse with my tourer and it's long rear triangle. A lot of times I'm the only commuter in the cage, at least on my shift (I work nights) but I still do this because I want it to be as convenient as possible for anyone else who is riding to encourage them to continue to do so!

At home I've converted my car parking space into a bike rack with one of those German military surplus bike racks. I think it's a fiberglass torpedo travel case cut in half. There's about room for two cars in the underneath the apartment building parking for each of the units that have it, but we don't own a car anyway. I tried to get the landlord to knock a little money off our rent and offer it to someone else in the building who parks in the lot out back when we moved in but he wouldn't go for it. I don't think he wanted to deal with the logistics of assigning it to someone else or offering it up to folks in the building, it's a small building but managed by a big company. Lately, as often as not the bike I am riding comes upstairs with me for maintenance or some tinkering as I am still kitting out a new build. There it joins my girlfriends bikes taking up half the living room!

* Although, to tell truth, lately I've given up on taking my lock to and from work even twice a week to have it there. Since I park in a locked bike cage and at most there are less than a half dozen other commuters and often only me, I'm not worried about them stealing either of my 15-20 year old mountain bikes weighed down with all manner of Fred paraphernalia! I don't bother pulling my lights off there either, and often leave my helmet with its lights hanging off the handlebars too. The layout of the cage (it was added as an afterthought to one corner of a parking garage structure) sucks with a sidewalk running through the part of it where you need to maneuver your bike to the racks farther back and there is lots of half abandoned cabinets and construction supplies in the area, but I'm finally starting to warm up to the other conveniences of parking in the cage.