Transform Your Garage Into a Master Suite

Do you need more room(s) in your home? But don’t want to Build or Pay a Contractor? A popular option is to convert your Garage into a Spare Room. You can Transform Your Garage Into a Master Suite with these Tips.

1. Get a Permit from your Local City Codes, so you can get the added finished square footage reported on your tax records.  You will want this extra square footage when you sale your home for Top Dollar.
2. Decide where your walls and doors will go-hire someone to make a blueprint
3. Dry Lock Your Cinder Blocks
4. Frame Ventilation, walls, and doors
5. Get Electrical and any Plumbing if you are doing a bathroom
6. Add insulation
7. Install a vapor barrier
8. Seal vapor barrier with tape and glue
9. Add sheet rock
10. Tape, mud, and texture sheet rock
11. Prime sheet rock
12. Paint sheet rock
13. Install Lighting
14. Install Flooring
15. Move in Furniture
16. Decorate!

Transform Your Garage Into a Master Suite

We live in a 1970, 1 story home with finished basement.  The 3 bedrooms on the main floor are too small for our King Size bedroom set, we decided to build two more rooms in our basement.  One room was the Garage.  We chose the garage for our Master Suite, since it is long and rectangular, offering us the most ‘real estate’ for our King size bedroom set.

BEFORE

This was an unfinished garage that was used as a Meth Lab, well according to the neighbors.  We bought this home as a foreclosure.  We had evidence of the SWAT team breaking in (one of the doors had boards over it, where there used to be glass). ANYWAYS, this is the Before Picture. Everything had to be cleaned, Dry Locked, Framed, etc.

Install new French Doors

Add new Insulation, Frame HVAC ventilation

Frame the Walls and Add Insulation (another picture of HVAC vents framed with 2×4 boards).

Frame around the Ventilation and walls then cover with sheet rock.

Tape, Mud, and Sand

AFTER

We still need to finish painting near the ceiling, and create my custom head board (see board behind bed).

This is the other Half of the Room.  I use it for my Craft Room.

 

The French Doors are Behind the Beige Curtains

There’s always a Need to have more room(s) in your home. Finding the room and knowing how to do it, can be overwhelming. Transform Your Garage into a Master Suite, gives you an outline of how you can Do It Yourself, or with a little help.  Adding an extra room to your home will give you the space that you Need for your hobbies and furniture.