23 Inspiring Garage Room Ideas to Transform Your Space

An unused garage is a missed opportunity to add bonus living space to your home. With a little imagination you can add value to your home by turning a garage from a messy space used to store unnecessary clutter into a finished space that is ready for anything—from a guest suite to a pool house, eat-in kitchen, home office, art or recording studio, or a bonus family room that looks like it's always been part of the house.

Check out these garage room ideas that range from DIY makeovers to total transformations for inspiration on how to kick your car to the curb and expand your home's existing footprint to create that extra bit of space you've always wanted and will use for years to come.

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One Car Garage Studio

A Beautiful Mess

A black ceiling and fresh white walls gives this one car garage turned home recording studio from A Beautiful Mess a crisp look that contrasts with concrete flooring.

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Converted Garage Living Room

Design by Crisp Architects / Photo by Rob Karosis

This dramatic makeover from Crisp Architects transformed a large garage into a formal living room. "There is nary a clue that this refined, comfortable family room was once a bare bones garage, complete with a concrete floor and metal lolly columns down the center," says architect Jimmy Crisp. "The transformation was completed with wide board floors, a tall and elegant tray ceiling, antique beams, and a focal point fireplace with period flair."

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Guest House Garage

Design by Leclair Decor / Photo by Chad Mellon

Turn your guest house garage conversion into an entertaining space by setting up an outdoor living room on the patio outside complete with comfortable outdoor seating, a fire pit, and an outdoor rug like this L.A. set up from Leclair Decor.

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Garage Library

Design by Crisp Architects / Photo by Rob Karosis

Crisp Architects added built-in storage and bookcases to this totally transformed garage turned family room and library.

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Garage Home Office

Home Consultant

Home Consultant added large natural wood-framed glass French doors that allow natural light to flood in to this converted backyard garage, staged here as a home office/guest room.

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Home Music Studio Garage

A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess transformed a garage into a stylish studio, adding a bathroom and open living and dining room space that is flooded with light thanks to a large window.

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Garage Vacation Rental

Arbor & Co.

Arbor & Co. transformed a two-car garage into a Portland, OR vacation rental, turning the former driveway into a covered patio with living and dining areas that allow guests to enjoy the outdoors in all weather.

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Garage Recording Studio

A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess added blue paint on the walls surrounding this recording corner of a garage music studio and accessorized it with brass-tone lighting and a fluffy Moroccan-style rug.

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Warm Up With Reclaimed Wood

Arbor & Co.

Arbor & Co. added a reclaimed wood accent wall in the bed alcove of this garage-turned-vacation rental that adds warmth to the space, which was inspired by the look of a Scandinavian cabin.

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Garage Sitting Room

A Beautiful Mess

A Beautiful Mess added a spacious seating area to this garage turned home studio and hangout space that is decorated with fresh white walls, dark flooring, natural materials, and hanging plants.

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Multipurpose Converted Garage

Blanco Bungalow

Blanco Bungalow whitewashed the walls of this former garage and turned it into a bonus living space for the family and a collection of surfboards. A bicycle hangs on the wall above a small home office to save space and preserve the laid back modern boho style feel of the Southern California space.

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Garage Cabana

Christina Kim Interior Design / Raquel Langworthy Photography

Christina Kim Interior Design turned an unused garage into a poolside cabana and bunk room with indoor outdoor seating at the semi-open bar.

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Garage Bunk Room

Christina Kim Interior Design / Raquel Langworthy Photography

The inside of this garage turned pool house from Christina Kim Interior Design features a light and breezy bunk house with sleeping space and storage that takes advantages of the tall ceilings and a small seating area for hanging out in the shade after a long day in the sun.

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Garage TV Room

Blanco Bungalow

Adding a flat screen makes this converted garage a hang out spot for movie nights or watching the game. The garage door can be kept open during the daytime to let in natural light, while a wooden door leads to the back patio in this garage conversion from Blanco Bungalow.

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Garage Workshop Studio

Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona

Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona turned a former garage into a bright, clean, organized workshop for DIY projects, installing insulation and a mini split air conditioning and heat pump that allows her to make and craft for hours in comfort.

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Include Open and Closed Storage

Blanco Bungalow

This DIY garage conversion from Blanco Bungalow includes wall brackets to keep surfboards upright and accessible and a back wall with floor-to-ceiling storage that anchors a long sofa and seating area while blending into the background.

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Accent With Gold

Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona

Gold-toned accents add polish and contrast with dark paint and concrete flooring in this garage turned workshop from Ursula Carmona of Home Made By Carmona that makes it feel like a finished indoor space.

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Art Studio Garage

Fantastic Frank

This 1924 garage warehouse in Colorado from Fantastic Frank was transformed into a private art studio that preserves the original character of concrete floors, exposed brick, and barrel roof with exposed beams and steel trusses, showing the possibilities of renovating industrial architecture into livable space.

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Coach House Kitchen

deVOL Kitchens

The coach house was the horse-drawn carriage era equivalent to the modern garage. This British coach house conversion from deVOL Kitchens is now a luminous kitchen that opens to the outdoors.

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Garage Loft

Design by Leanne Ford Interiors / Photo by Reid Rolls

Once a boarded up three-story industrial warehouse garage, this Pittsburgh loft from Leanne Ford Interiors now oozes industrial chic style and is equipped for modern living.

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Add Skylights

deVOL Kitchens

Two pairs of skylights and large metal pane glass doors flood this British coach house turned kitchen from deVOL Kitchens with natural light.

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Keep Original Features

Design by Leanne Ford Interiors / Photo by Reid Rolls

Keeping the garage doors and original factory windows gives this Pittsburgh industrial garage conversion from Leanne Ford Interiors a sense of authenticity and history.

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Add-On Guest Apartment

Design by Marie Flanigan Interiors / Photo by Julie Soefer

And if your garage is full of automobiles, there's always the option of adding on a second story—zoning regulations permitting—to house a granny flat or guest apartment like this modern farmhouse charmer from Marie Flanigan Interiors.

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