To have a loft in a garage

[NES]

I always thought it would be awesome to have a loft in a garage. The rooms below would be a office, bathroom with shower, and utility room for furnace and waterheater. The upstairs would have a half bathroom, kitchen, and living room. The ustairs would be awesome yo entertain in. cook food in the kitchen and chill in the living room while watching a movie. The living room and kitchen would have windows that I would see the 4 cars and boat from the second floor.

I wish I had a boat and 4 cars. Of course wishing to have a big pole barn.

 

[starquestMM]

Sounds like a shouse.

 

[CombatNinja]

If wishes were horses, we'd all ride.

 

[NES]

Sounds like a shouse.

Why not. If the weather is really hot, cold, windy, snowing or raining you've a bathroom in the garage. If your upstairs entertaing the bathroom is on the same floor. You decided to call it a day while working on a car in the garage. You can take a shower in the garage. Afterwards order out pizza have it upstairs and chill out in the living room or kitchen.

 

[boostin1004]

I was considering a loft and decided to keep the vertical space for higher 4 post lift... Plus there was a huge added cost of getting plans, permits and electrical/plumbing.

 

[CombatNinja]

I would just prefer a loft with a lounge area up top with a very robust leather couch, a small coffee table and maybe a bar sink. Just a place to kick back and maybe share a pizza and watch a how-to video on YouTube before getting back to work. Maybe a half bath underneath. As soon as you start with bedrooms, kitchens, etc., you are into a whole lot of grey area on codes and you run the risk of your wife banishing you to the shop every time you 'misbehave'. I don't need to give her any ammunition.

 

[bob15]

Will be hot as hell in the summer without serious ventilation & fans.

 

[CombatNinja]

I assumed that any garage with a loft expressly for kickin' back would be climate controlled.

 

[nadogail]

It depends; are we discussing an existing garage? Are there any budgetary limitations, or community restrictions?

 

[NES]

Will be hot as hell in the summer without serious ventilation & fans.

I would also have duct work for the air conditioning for the rooms above the loft as well as the office and mainfloor bathroom. I wouldn't want to have any bedrooms in the garage at all.

 

[quickfarms]

I have a loft in my garage and it was supposed to be a fun relaxing place but 15 years ago it became my office and I chose the commute measured in feet over the fun relaxing place and have never looked back.

in my area putting a kitchen and bathroom in the garage is not easy because they think you will illegally live in there

 

[larry_g]

In my shop, link below, the mez is the wife's craft room and the lower is the machine shop. The house is for eating and sleeping.
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no neat sig line

 

[walta]

It seems to me the point of a garage is floor space and the loft would require a staircase near the center of the building that ***** up the best square feet on the garages destroying the open feeling and filling the space with an obstacle.

If your local fire marshal has to approve the plan you will never get approved without a firewall between a living space and a garage. My guess is every insurance Co would drop such a building like a hot potato if they did an onsite inspection.

 

[Gerald O]

I built mine with a loft and still manage to have a lift in the garage. Did all the building design and interior work myself - plumbing and electrical, AC, bathroom, all properly permitted.
This was all fitted into a 32'x24' footprint, so unfortunately no room for widows to look over the shop floor.

 

[CraigStu]

So you don't have a house w/ "office, bathroom with shower, and utility room for furnace and waterheater. The upstairs would have a half bathroom, kitchen, and living room." If you are going to live in a garage building, fine. Otherwise why would you have a set of all the above in a garage and another set in your house? Skip one set and you can buy 2 or 3 of those cars you are dreaming of.