We just did this in N-VA but converted a totally bare unfinished garage to a laundry /mudroom, doing what the pp said (insulating, raising the floor, window, doors, etc) and it was about $100k

Anonymous wrote:This isn't the south. Or California. Just saying in case you were accustomed to the existence of garage apartments. The weather here doesn't lend itself to an easy conversion.

+1. To do it correctly, you’d need to insulate the exterior walls, raise the floor to the same level as the rest of the living space and insulate underneath, add an egress window and closet, add/ patch drywall, and reroute mechanical for heating and cooling.

This isn't the south. Or California. Just saying in case you were accustomed to the existence of garage apartments. The weather here doesn't lend itself to an easy conversion.

Depending on how big the garage is, minimum 50k.

This makes sense. Too early to type, I guess.

Thanks. This is makes sense.

If you were to convert a garage to a bedroom at the same quality level as putting on an addition for a bedroom, it would cost about the same. Garages are built differently than the parts of the house that are intended for habitation, there's not a whole lot to the garage that would be usable in a bedroom and there would be the expense of tearing some of the work out.

Usually garage conversions are done on the cheap. Cheap is cheap, how cheap do you want to be?

Has anyone ever tried to convert a garage into a master suite?

Curious the general cost for this sort of project.