Does Converting Your Garage Add Value?
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Ever considered whether you actually need that garage?
Well, there is a growing trend for many households to convert their garage into additional living space. To me this makes absolute sense and I suspect (contrary to some recent evidence) that this will ultimately add value to your home and here’s why:
1. Converting garages is typically a very easy/cheap thing to do. Plaster, flooring, hooking up services and your off.
2. The principal reason for garages used to be for storage of the family car. Why? Because vehicles in general were not galvanised as par for the course - resulting in rust. Therefore, it was important to protect your car from the elements as much as possible. Today, new cars are routinely galvanised - hence no need for the garage.
3. Sheds are fast becoming the place of choice for storing everything that you would have usually stored in the garage. Particularly, with the increasingly vast array of ultra modern sheds containing everything including the kitchen sink!
4. Living space, particularly in city and urban areas is rapidly becoming more and more important. It’s a question of whether that garage is more important than a nursery, study or larger kitchen/diner? That’s a no brainer to be honest!
5. I think most of us if we were honest, would concede that the garage is jammed full of junk that you actually don’t need. Strip the junk out and you would more than likely be able to fit everything else in the shed or in the loft.
We’ll see in years to come, but I predict that garage conversions will become a very easy way to add serious value to your home, for comparatively little expenditure.
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