Current Garage Remodeling Trends
The attraction of a modern home nowadays is not just in the stainless steel kitchen, fancy pool and Jacuzzi or the complete home theater system. It also lies in well-designed garages complete with clean looking epoxy floors, brightly painted walls, custom made cabinets for storage and canned lighting.
It is quite possible that your garage is a more traditional, all cement one – painted gray and with plain drywalls that are just taped together. However, you can always consider remodeling your garage so that it blends in with the modern look of the rest of the house and also to make more efficient use of the space available. In fact, garages are increasingly being treated as a part of the living space, like another room in the house and there are major efforts in many homes to remodel them to resemble the same.
The garage remodeling industry is currently one of the fastest growing segments in the home improvement section. A quick search on the Internet will throw up hundreds of companies all dealing with garage remodeling and renovation products. Most of them deal with garage floor coatings, which are highly popular because of their resistance to stains, and complete garage organizational units that are used to keep stuff away from the garage floor.
However, there are some companies that offer complete renovation services including the design and construction of a remodeled garage. These companies will meet with you to understand what your needs are and take careful measurements of your garage. They will then feed all this data into a computer software and work on a few alternative designs. In fact, you will be able to see what your garage may look like from the inside and outside from the three-dimensional mock-ups on the screen.
Garage remodeling projects vary in their budgets. A simple remodeling project will involve redoing the floor and walls with some storage space on the walls and ceiling so that there is freedom to move around in the garage. On the other hand, if you have a bigger budget, you can carry out a more large-scale project installing fancy cabinets for storage, nice speckled flooring and tinted paint on the walls. You can have an extra room that you can use as a home office, workshop or an additional bedroom.
In fact, there is no limit to what a well-designed fancy garage can hold. For those who can afford it, a garage can have sound systems and track lightings, stainless steel work tops for your workshop or hobby area, car and motorcycle lifts and also platforms that will turn when the car needs to head out and needs to face outwards.
Garages are no longer the non-descript part of the houses that they once were. They have to be functional and visually appealing too. There are further challenges if they are to be used as a living area too. However, with the market flooded with a variety of garage renovation products and solutions, a homeowner is certain to find some to reflect his lifestyle and fit his budget.