How To Turn A Garage Into A Family Room

Step by step on how to convert a garage to a room.

How to turn a garage into a family room. Not everyone has a large house with a formal dining room. Providing heating and cooling for the space either by tying into the house s main system or adding an independent one such as a ductless mini split system. In addition the family gains a new detached 2 car garage with plentiful storage in the rear of the home.

Your garage may not be big enough to be a bedroom depending on building rules. Move the living room out to the garage and then turn the space that was once a living room into the formal dining room. If your family needs more room but you re not ready to hang a for sale sign or call for a moving truck just yet park the car in the driveway and transform the garage into usable space for.

Mosby building arts devised a plan to convert the tiny garage into livable space thus allowing the entire lower level to be reconfigured as an open plan space with a family room dining kitchenette and mudroom. Check your local building codes. To reduce heating and cooling costs ensure that your garage has about 1 square foot of vent opening per 300 square feet of attic space if it has an attic.

Either add insulation. Insulate the walls since most garages are kept cool and have none. Sometimes adding a kitchen and bathroom to an existing space can result in your garage remodel turning your home into a two family home.

An electrical service upgrade to accommodate the larger load. For a wallet friendly way to make your new bedroom feel more spacious use light colored paint and mount mirrors in the room. Opening up the partition wall between your house and the garage to create an open floor plan.

The family can use this room for family game nights of for reading stories on the night before christmas.