I would like to convert a section of my garage into an office and would like any advice on how best to go about it.
- The garage is attached to the side of the house.
- It already has an internal brick wall which partitions the garage into two sections; one for the car, and the other which is currently a toolstore/workshop.
- The workshop has a fairly level concrete floor and brick walls which are plastered and painted on two sides (sandwiched between house and garage section), and has a timber frame section at the front (brown section in photo).
- Workshop is dry
- Workshop also stores the house boiler in a section at the back (sectioned off by a door)
- No heating
- plyboard roof (although don't know if there is insulation behind it)
- Strip light on the ceiling
I would like to convert this into a home office, which could be heated and decorated nicely. Any advice about how I could best convert the space on a reasonable budget, would be greatly appreciated.
For example, I wondered whether I would need to:
- Use a self-levelling floor compound and seal the floor, or would it better to make a false timber floor
- Be better to put studded walls onto the existing plastered walls, and insulate and plasterboard.
- For heating, could I add one of the tiny wood-burning stoves if built a flue through the workshop roof or would an oil radiator be better? I suppose I could even possibly run a radiator through from the house.
- The garage is attached to the side of the house.
- It already has an internal brick wall which partitions the garage into two sections; one for the car, and the other which is currently a toolstore/workshop.
- The workshop has a fairly level concrete floor and brick walls which are plastered and painted on two sides (sandwiched between house and garage section), and has a timber frame section at the front (brown section in photo).
- Workshop is dry
- Workshop also stores the house boiler in a section at the back (sectioned off by a door)
- No heating
- plyboard roof (although don't know if there is insulation behind it)
- Strip light on the ceiling
I would like to convert this into a home office, which could be heated and decorated nicely. Any advice about how I could best convert the space on a reasonable budget, would be greatly appreciated.
For example, I wondered whether I would need to:
- Use a self-levelling floor compound and seal the floor, or would it better to make a false timber floor
- Be better to put studded walls onto the existing plastered walls, and insulate and plasterboard.
- For heating, could I add one of the tiny wood-burning stoves if built a flue through the workshop roof or would an oil radiator be better? I suppose I could even possibly run a radiator through from the house.
