5 Ideas to Inspire Your Garage Conversion

Your garage doesn’t have to be just a garage. If you feel like you don’t need a dedicated garage, you’d rather increase your living space, or you feel like your garage is being wasted – having become an unofficial storage unit, consider converting it to something else. 

Garage transformations are all the rage right now; it’s the best way to add a bunch of living space to your home without doing an addition, and you can make the room anything you want. People do gyms, bedrooms, even whole tiny houses. Another option becoming more popular is converting your garage into multi-use office spaces.

As well, with all the kinds of garage doors to choose from now, you can keep your garage door and create a cool conversion. Pair any of these conversion ideas with non-traditional garage doors, like swing-open carriage house doors or full-view glass and aluminum overhead doors. This is smart for when you eventually sell your home, in case the new homeowners want a garage-garage. 

Here are 5 ideas for converting your garage for different use:

1. Create a master bedroom suite

Converting your garage into a bedroom is a great way to add sleeping space to your house, or upgrade to a tricked out master bedroom. This is also a great excuse to add a bathroom to your house and create a sanctuary of a master suite.

2. Make a dedicated office

So many of us work from home now. And if you’ve got kids and/or pets, it might be difficult to cut out the noise and the interruptions and concentrate on your work. If you convert your garage into a dedicated office, you get the peace and quiet you need to be your most productive. Add a half bath and a mini fridge and it will truly feel like a work space. Huge upgrade from your couch.

This homeowner created a clean, bright and modern office/living space out of her garage, complete with tonnes of smart storage and plenty of natural light. Take a look at her process and a tour around her new dedicated work-from-home-but-then-unwind space.

3. Create a Comprehensive Home Gym or Yoga Studio

Often, our home “gyms” are relegated to the basement, or that 4^th bedroom that is way too small to actually be a bedroom. Convert your garage to a home gym, and you have a spacious separate space to concentrate on your health. Room for dumbbells, bench presses, treadmills, ellipticals – whatever your workout style, you have space for it now. Line one wall with mirrors so you can always check your form. And hey – you now have room to do walking lunges now! Go ahead and cancel that gym membership; you’ve got it all at home.

4. Bonus room!

You’ve got a whole new room in your house. It could be for any number of leisure activities. Consider a gaming room, an entertainment room with a wet bar, a playroom for your kids, a craft room – anything you often think to yourself, I wish we had the space for this, you can make it happen with a garage conversion.

5. Make a multi-use space

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a second living room? Something kind of like a bar or party room? You know – for those times one of you wants to watch a football game while the other wants to binge Real Housewives of NYC? Now you can do it at the same time! Choose a couch with a pull-out sofa bed and you’ve immediately got a combo den and guest bedroom.

You can also take this as an opportunity to make a garage man cave. While “She Sheds” have become the answer to the “Man Cave,” they’re usually built in a standalone building in the back yard. There’s no reason why you can’t make use of the garage space you already have and develop a “Diva Den,” where you can do whatever you want. After cleaning up the space, installing flooring, extra installation, and safe electric sources, it can be a place where you watch TV, read, meditate, gossip with a friend, or work on the project of your choice. If you’re more relaxed spending free time in a room inside your house, the garage can be deemed the “Man Cave,” so that sounds of football games, drinking or loud music can be contained in the newly remodeled, (possibly soundproof) garage. Wait… this kind of already just sounds like a multi-use space!

There are No Limits To What Your Garage Can Become

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration for what’s going to be a super-fun home improvement project. And if you need any help figuring out a garage door setup that doesn’t ruin the living-space vibe, call the garage door pros at SACS; we’re always here to help.