Can A Garage Conversion Add Value?

Converting an unused room in your house to suit a new purpose can be both personally rewarding and lead to a higher evaluation of your property. If the requirements of your home or family have changed, then we think you can consider renovating or reinvigorating your old garage to be used better.

Ideas For Converting Your Garage

Potential ideas with what to do with your garage will vary on your living circumstances, do you live alone and do you have a family etc. We’ve seen great simple examples where a garage has been turned and converted into a home bar, a gym, extended living space for pets and animals or even a home small home cinema or music room.

What Can You Do With Your Garage?

There’s plenty more you can be using this space for rather than an over-sized cluttered cool box. If like most people in that using your garage to store a car is particularly impractical, we say go ahead and why not...

Bear in mind if you’re converting your garage solely for the purposes of adding money to the value of your home then you might want to balance more on the conservative side of your list of ideas.

Whilst a gym might appeal to an active or sporting couple it might not appeal to somebody who would rather use it as office space, so bare this in mind when you think about the type of home buyers you might eventually be looking to attract. And of course if you don’t have any foreseeable plans to be moving soon then you can really create something that you’ll enjoy and get pleasure from using for yourself.

Seek Planning Permission When Converting Your Garage If Necessary

If your home is in part of an urban conservation area or has been built relatively recently then we would advise and recommend you first contact your local planning authority especially if you foresee external work being carried such as new walls or windows or you intended to turn the space into a habitable bedroom.

Need A Garage Conversion Specialist?

It may also be necessary to seek the professional help from a home improvement specialist as they will be able to effectively advise you depending on what work you may be looking to carry out or what you want to achieve.

For example, an additional wall in place of the door will more than likely require new steady foundations digging in order to be stable and distribute weight appropriately; you can’t simply build a wall on top of flat ground. Other questions they may help answer include things like drainage, light, plumbing and electrics and even insulation from both the elements to keep your room warm or sound if you want to prevent unwanted external noise pollution on to your street.

Now you know some of the considerations you need to take into account we hope your garage conversion is successful, building or renovation works go smoothly and that it brings you the great value you expect!

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This article was written by Nathan Gladwin of Harold Potter Ltd. Harold Potter provide crane hire and lifting equipment rental as well as overhead cranes and gantry cranes to the building and manufacturing industries.