Garage conversion design ideas
When you find yourself running out of living space its action time – you can’t put off making a decision any longer or someone will have to start living in the coal house! Living space is always at a premium and suddenly finding that you need more can really leave you feeling desperate. There is a solution and Principality Loft Conversions, a specialist family company provide it right here for you to find out about – so don’t stop reading through to the end.
Garage conversions have become quite a popular source of adding on living space; this is by no means a new concept having been around from way back when. It is time to take a look at some garage conversion ideas that can help you out of your space dilemma. There are many uses for the additional space, guest bedroom, guest visiting room, teenager’s bedroom, study, home office and more. What you use it for really depends on what you need the extra space for.
Garage conversion is probably one of the quickest and most effective ways to add on to the existing living space of a home. The foundation, walls and roof are already in place and is in some ways similar to doing loft conversions. If you have an attached garage then you have a ready made entryway. Wiring is also in place but will of course need to be upgraded to bear the load of the electrical gadgets you plan to use in the room.
Some of the best garage conversions are the ones that are totally indistinguishable; anyone not familiar with your home should find it hard to guess that the room was once a garage. You can choose bespoke garage conversions to help blend the new room flawlessly into the rest of the house, making it to look like it has always been a part of it.
The garage conversion process should begin with an evaluation of what exists and what needs to be done – problem areas should be noted with care. Let us take a look at some garage conversion ideas that may help.
For starters the garage door needs to be removed. What happens to the space that is left once the door is removed? Again depending on the type of conversion you are planning, you could either fill in the extra space, then put in a regular door if it is going to be a bedroom. Alternatively for a sitting area or even a home office, you could put in a patio door or frame a new wall with a very large window.
The floor should be filled in and raised to the same level as the rest of the house and the ceiling insulated and brought up to the same height as the rest of the ceilings in the house.
With an attached garage it may be possible to extend the heating and cooling system from the house to the garage. Detached garage conversions will require an independent system, which will have to be looked into. Walls, floor and ceiling should be insulated prior to considering the heating and cooling aspects of the conversion. Plumbing could pose a right problem, but a qualified plumber will be able to help sort out your requirements.
One of the difficult areas of bespoke garage conversions is to make sure that the exterior of the garage does not look like an after thought, rather an integral part of the whole house. You could consider matching colours, doors, windows and siding with your landscaping or make it an exact match with the main house.
There are several excellent garage conversion companies available to help with your requirements. You should make a shortlist and contact them for garage conversion costs. Depending on what you plan to convert your garage into, garage conversion prices will vary.
Our team of specialists will conduct an evaluation and then carry out the work from the planning stage to design, build and through to finish.
