Kennels in garage for pets

Adding them with furniture won't leave much room for anything else. It would be crowded, and I want the kennels to be bigger so they have some room and not cramped.

Must be moving into a tiny house if you cant fit some kennels for your pups in the corner.

We keep dogs in an unconditioned area and I monitor temperature year round.
Rarely does the temperature go into the 90's, usually mid 80's at worst.
Here is how to work the temperature in a garage/ store room.
1. Keep any doors closed during the day. Pretty much from sun up until about 9 o'clock at night.
2. Open the door later in the evening. Leave the door open all night, if possible.
3. Early AM, before the sun comes up and it's about 70 degrees outside, open the doors and use a fan to bring in the "cool" air.

The big key is keeping the door closed during the day .

You can get better with trying to run a space cooler, draining and venting to the outside. Or even a fan with blocks of ice

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Adding them with furniture won't leave much room for anything else. It would be crowded, and I want the kennels to be bigger so they have some room and not cramped.

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Put it up in the morning and fold it flat and slide it under the couch in the evening. Most of them take less than 3 minutes to put up and down.

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I don't get the whole "kenneling" thing. I know ppl that kennel their poor dogs all day while at work, and then again at night while they're sleeping. Seems downright inhumane to me to restrict an animal to a few square feet for the majority of its day.

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As long as they get activity in between, this is basically what a dog wants. A fed dog that is not searching for food sleeps most of it's day and night away.

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A fed dog that is not searching for food sleeps most of it's day and night away.

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We must know some very different dogs. We kept & raised German shepherds during my youth. They def don't sleep all day, even when fed & exercised. I guess the curiousity level varies widely by breed.

Again, if you actually want a pet that sleeps 18-20 of 24 hours, get a cat. I've got one now that literally doesn't move 1 inch from 6 am until 6 pm. A solid 12 hr slab of life, spent in one spot in one position. Sleepingest creature I ever owned.

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Even the human society has no issues with crating both day and night.

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A direct quote from the Humane Society website:
"A crate may be your dog’s den, but just as you would not spend your entire life in one room of your home, your dog should not spend most of their time in their crate." (emphasis mine)

I'm not objecting to crate training for housebreaking, or to occasional crating as needed. I'm saying that an entire workday plus commute time (10-12 hrs for many ppl), then an overnight (7-8 hrs) is essentially MOST of a day. Low end, 17 of 24 hrs w/7 free moving; high end of my example, 20 of 24 hrs.

Of course, animal personalities vary even within breeds. I had a half choc lab/half chesapeake retriever who prob would have been fine in a crate; she liked her outdoor doghouse & only had three modes: sleep, eat, retrieve. But my old lady shepherd was a curious, intelligent creature interested in the birds in the trees, the passing UPS man, the neighbor kids waiting for the bus who liked to visit her thru the fence every AM; she would play fetch with herself if no one wanted to toss a ball w/her. That poor girl would have gone stark raving mad in a crate 17 hrs a day.

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A direct quote from the Humane Society website:

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Here is the full link.

Do you have a laundry room? That's where my two are at during the day. Unless my geriatric lab shits during the night like last night, they get stuck outside.