Today the workers started on the garage conversion.  Arriving home this evening from a late evening at work, I was confronted with the impressive new look to our home.

Like most garages ours was just sat there filled with junk and really doing very little.  Therefore we decided with the baby on the way we may as well make full use of that space by converting the space in to two rooms.  The garage runs the fill length of the house from front to back and therefore would split into 2 rooms (one small and one larger) very well.  We are going to use one as a dining room and the other as a home gym.

First job when the builders arrived first thing this morning was to remove the garage door and then start digging down for the foundations for the wall were the garage door was.  The the bricks started going down, leaving room for the window which we had already had delivered.  A few hours later and after some hard graft the new wall was constructed and the window in place.  Once the glass was put in, from the outside it looked like it had always been there.

Then came the knocking through to the house.  We have a cupboard downstairs which backs onto the garage and therefore it was there that we were going to knock through into the garage to created the entrance to the new rooms.  A few minutes with a rather wicked circular saw and some brute force and ignorance and the wall was knocked through.  A metal lintel was then cemented in place and hey presto, the garage and the house are united again!

Next job is the raise the floor next week and I will report back on progress then.  For the first time now as you go into what was the garage you get a feel for what the rooms are going to be like.

View the photo set on Flickr of all the work.