Converting part of our garage

[llareggub]

Last year we built a conservatory extension onto the back of our house. We moved our dining table into the conservatory and the old dining room is now a play room. Attached to the dining room is a garage and lately I've been thinking that it would be quite handy to convert part of the garage into a room.

We'd like to keep the front part of the garage for storage purposes. The back part, accessed through our old dining room, would be a study, occasional spare bedroom with a wall of cupboards for storage.

Has anyone done anything like this and what did it cost?

A friend did it to her place. They kept the garage door as it was and use the front (about a third) of it for storage (bikes, buggy, paint, tools etc) and use the other 2/3 as an office. It works really well.

It didn't cost them a lot (brick wall, window in the office & flooring), but it's going to depend on your layout and what you want to do isn't it...

We converted the back half of our garage into an office/spare room last year.

We've got a window in the side of the office and the front half of the garage is used for storage. We replaced the up-and-over garage doors to give us more storage space which works really well.

The original garage wasn't really wide enough to park a car in ( well you could prob have parked but would then have needed to crawl out of the boot!) so we didn't feel we were going to loose a parking space.

It's worked really well for us and is our favourite room in the house - mainly because the kids aren't allowed in there!

It cost around 6k for everything including carpets, decorating and built-in storage. We needed buldings regs but not planning permission so it was a simple process.

Thanks, both.

What did you replace the doors with? Ours isn't really wide enough either for a car. Silly, isn't it?

We replaced it with large double doors that opened outwards. That way it still looks like a garage (and the rest if the houses on the street) and the storage is easier to access.

HTH