How to use clever design to turn your garage into a super space 

The buildings canny buyers, flippers and renovators never ignore: We raise that roller door on the potential garages offer

Integrated garage by architect Neil Kane. 

Garages — the last commodious outbuilding left standing in our largely suburbanite lives. The RAC and other consumer polls over the years, clearly show the garage steadily declining in its original intent, as a shelter for the car. 

The regularly touted 35%-50% vehicular occupancy seems generous as we shove our domestic over-spill and DIY odysseys behind the roller door. Modern car paint finishes don’t oxidise, and the business of shutting a car away is a redundant nuisance for all but protective city dwellers without driveways and on-street parking.