4 bed house without a garage.

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We’re looking at converting our garage into a second living room and utility/boot room. It’s a large garage, not quite a double but bigger than a single.
However, then the house wouldn’t have a garage. We would put a decent shed in the garden for bikes and you can get from the garden to the front but are wondering if this would put people off in the future. Should we keep the garage? TIA

As DH has a number of motorbikes it would be a no from us. A (large) garage is on the "must have" list.

I can see why people do it, but you do reduce your market for the house.

A shed in the garden just isn't the same. It's fine for gardening equipment, (cheap) bikes etc but can't replace the secure storage a garage provides.

Tbh I think garage conversions might go the way of full open plan. Everyone does it until they figure out living like that has its downsides, that walls resolved - noise, lack of privacy, cooking smells, heating etc.

So people start looking for the properties that haven't been "modernised" in such a way or putting walls back up.

When we moved, a garage was a non-negotiable for my husband. Round here a lot of people had converted a garage into either a downstairs bedroom or playroom.

I’m pretty sure we only managed to get our house with a garage because the garage isn’t attached to the house otherwise it may have been converted years ago.