Turning Garage into Game Room

pooljunkie4ever

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I am thinking about turning my garage into a game room. I don't want to tear the garage door down. My intentions are to build a temporay wall that I can tear down when I quit renting. Has anyone else done something crazy like this. I also thinking about having a 3' gap between my wall and the garage door so I can store my tools. Will buy a hot/cold window unit for climate control.
Any advice from someone that has done this would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 2 car garage measuring 19' x 18'.
 
My only complaint is no clean, dry place for working on a car. If that's not a concern for you, my advice is to go for it.
 
If you are getting a 9 foot table, I don't think you'll have room to take 3 feet away from any side..

I did a garage renovation where the garage door was taken out, and framed out and filled in just like a regular wall. We stucco'ed the outside to match the house, and put windows that matched the other house windows where the garage door was. Scott Lee came over and said it was impossible to tell it had ever been a garage, inside or outside.

Though, being a homeowner, I would never consider spending money to do that kind of temporary improvement to someone else's home. Maybe you need to look at what kind of rent you're paying and seeing if you can't buy your own house. A lot of times, the cost is very close. When I lived in WA state 10 years ago, rents for nice apartments were running around $750-$850 a month. I now pay about $1050 a month on my house. Renting just doesn't make sense for most people..

Once you are buying the property, you can do anything you want to it.. :D :D :D

Russ
 
pooljunkie4ever said:
I am thinking about turning my garage into a game room. I don't want to tear the garage door down. My intentions are to build a temporay wall that I can tear down when I quit renting. Has anyone else done something crazy like this. I also thinking about having a 3' gap between my wall and the garage door so I can store my tools. Will buy a hot/cold window unit for climate control.
Any advice from someone that has done this would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 2 car garage measuring 19' x 18'.
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I have done the exact same thing with a 19' by 21' space i am going to bed right now and will give you some pointers tomorrow-- any other questions our own Dak21st and his crew did a majority of the work and it turned out great!
 
give this some thought regarding your garage. the garage door is a large
source of heat influx in the summer and cold in the winter(if you live in the north.) get the 1 or 2 inch styro foam sheets that come in 6 foot lengths
and glue them to the inside of the garage door and cut out for fillers for small spaces left.(home depot or lowes) use duct tape or whatever on the seams for better insulation.
measure your garage to see how much space you have exactly. what is left over in space you could do storage shelving .
after the shelving you could purchase the 12 foot or 10 foot bamboo blinds
and hang from the ceiling (preferably nail a board to the ceiling and then hang) hang the long bamboo blinds so when you let them down they make a solid wall in front of your shelves and garage door.
you can purchuse these in white. if you hang them on your back wall where probably your shelving will go and in front of your newly insulated garage door, you now will have a great looking room and can pull up a blind when you need to grab something from the shelves.
turn on your ac throw some indoor outdoor carpet on the floor (before you put your table in) and you have a fairly cheap new room in which to play pool and entertain.
hopefully there is a diamond table going in the center of your new room.

ljmoss
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bca league op.
 
i've done the same thing, back in late 2002. turned out to be a wise thing, but am now about to start renovating the upstairs above the garage so the Gold Crown IV will come back up.

if you have enough room for a car on the other side after you turn the garage into a pool room, you may as well go for it.

DCP
 
pooljunkie4ever said:
I am thinking about turning my garage into a game room. I don't want to tear the garage door down. My intentions are to build a temporay wall that I can tear down when I quit renting. Has anyone else done something crazy like this. I also thinking about having a 3' gap between my wall and the garage door so I can store my tools. Will buy a hot/cold window unit for climate control.
Any advice from someone that has done this would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 2 car garage measuring 19' x 18'.
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Get your landlord's permission FIRST! How would you like to do all the work and then have to tear it all out? The owner of the property has final say on any modifications to their property.
 
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