A cluttered, under-utilised garage converted into a fully insulated, light-filled home office in 5 weeks. Building Control-signed off. Privacy-led photography: the dressed-state shots stay with the client.
Project · Snapshot
Cheadle garage conversion delivered in 5 weeks flat. Full compliance with current Building Regulations, signed off by Building Control. The brief: turn a redundant storage garage into a comfortable, modern home workspace. The owner has asked for the dressed final-state photography to stay private: what we publish is the before condition and the scope of works as delivered.
Project · The Story
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A redundant storage garage in Cheadle, Staffordshire. Cluttered, cold, under-utilised: the kind of space that's costing the homeowner square-meterage every day it sits empty. The brief was specific: turn it into a fully insulated, light-filled home office, compliant with current Building Regs, signed off by Building Control, finished and usable inside five weeks.
Rigid floor insulation, high-performance wall insulation. Removed the existing garage door and installed a new window with matching brickwork: the elevation reads as a habitable room from the street, not a converted garage. Smooth plaster finish to walls and ceiling. New flooring supplied and fitted. Painted throughout. Additional radiator wired into the existing system. Multiple power outlets installed for office equipment.
Building Control involvement on a garage conversion to habitable space is non-negotiable. The whole scope was scoped, quoted, built and signed off by Building Control. Anything that changed was priced and agreed before we did it.
Garage to home office in five weeks, fully compliant, fully usable. The owner's working from home properly now instead of from the kitchen table. Where the parking situation allows it, a garage conversion is the cheapest way most houses gain usable floor space: it costs materially less than an extension, and the homeowner has the room back inside a quarter.
Garage Conversions · Cheadle, Staffordshire
Cheadle garage conversion delivered in 5 weeks flat. Full compliance with current Building Regulations, signed off by Building Control. The brief: turn a redundant storage garage into a comfortable, modern home workspace. The owner has asked for the dressed final-state photography to stay private: what we publish is the before condition and the scope of works as delivered.
Cluttered, cold, under-utilised. Standard integrated garage doing nothing useful: exactly the kind of space a garage conversion puts back to use.
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A note from John on privacy: we love sharing beautifully styled "after" shots with furniture and fittings: but sometimes clients prefer not to have those images published, often for security reasons or to protect their privacy. On Cheadle the owner has asked us to keep the dressed home-office photography off the public site. We always respect that.
What happened in five weeks: rigid floor insulation, high-performance wall insulation, original garage door removed and bricked up with a new window installed to match, smooth plaster to walls and ceiling, new flooring, full decoration, additional radiator, multiple power outlets for office equipment. Building Control-signed off. The single shot below is what the owner has approved for publication.
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