Is Converting Your Garage a Good Idea?
As well as adding square footage to your home, a garage conversion has the potential to add up to 15% more value your home. Typically, a conversion can be completed in a shorter time frame than building an extension. Plus, the construction work involved doesn’t tend to be as intrusive on the rest of your living space.
Whether your home’s garage is integral or detached, converting it into habitable accommodation is one of the speediest routes to boosting living space. You’re gaining living space from the existing footprint of the garage without having to build a new structure from scratch, as you would for an extension. Plus, a garage conversion won’t gobble up precious garden space.
This type of project is often received more favorably by the planners, too, as they usually involve fewer alterations to the exterior of the house. As you’re working with the existing structure you won’t necessarily need to dig out new footings. It is always worth getting the existing footings checked out though, especially if you want to build a second story on top of the garage at a later date.