Adding a carport to your house is a great boost for your home equity. More importantly though, it is more about what you are able to do with your carport while you are living in you home that determines whether you should think about adding one. Most people only think of one thing when it comes to building a carport on their house – protection for a car or truck. But if were to expand your mind for a minute, I’m sure you can see that there are some very interesting alternative uses other than vehicle storage.

I have been considering building a flat roof carport for the better part of a year, and I have done a fair amount of research to prepare for my big project. While researching the type of carport that I would build I came across many different options, including metal carport kits which seem to be pretty popular from what I can gather. However, the esthetics of the available kits just didn’t suit me, so I am opting for a build from scratch project.