Parents spend $ 65,000 to move into the garage so that children can have their own rooms (exclusively)

Before the challenge of a growing family and a limited space, a family of five decided to expand rather than moving.

Their 1,920 square meter houses in the eastern beach, VA.-with three bedrooms and three whole bathroom-no longer fulfilled their needs.

Instead of leaving a home with a decade’s value of memories, Shannon Boggs and her husband chose to renovate their attached garage with one and a half car in a master suite with their own entry.

The decision gave each of their three children their own bedroom, while the family would stay rooted in the home they love.

“Our oldest daughters have been sharing a room over the past six years, so we started looking at houses on the market for a while and just couldn’t find something we would be happy with where we were at, so we decided on renovation,” Bogs, 34, tells people exclusively.

When the family found out that they were expecting their third child, they knew it was time to start thinking about how to get their space to work in the long term.

Although they considered an addition, the attached garage was already too hard to conveniently fit a car, so they began to consider other possibilities.

To help live up their ideas, Boggs offered a creative friend to tape away the garage and visualize how it can turn into lively space.

“It was one and a half car garage that was not big enough for me to park our suburb. It was too shallow. It was 480 square meters that ended up being just storage that also acted as our laundry,” explains Boggs.

“We have been washed in the garage for the last ten years, and we were tired of it. It was not heated or air -conditioned. I dreamed of a laundry room in my house for a long time.”

Their solution was to build a new bedroom and bathroom suite, complete with a dressing room and an extra hall cabinet.

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“With how the market is now saved, we definitely saved money compared to making a whole supplement or buying something new,” Boggs says. “We are very pleased with our decision and that was about $ 65,000.”

The renovation was made in two phases: first they turned their dining room into a clay room and entrance, opened a supporting wall to connect it to the kitchen and turned a bathroom into half a bathroom with laundry space by removing the bathtub.

They started working in December 2024 and submitted things in mid -January 2025, before moving on to the next phase.

Phase two – Garage transformation – started immediately after and completed at the end of April 2025, giving the family a functional new layout.

Boggs admits to “live through the constant entrepreneurs in and out of the house all the time at night” was one of the toughest parts of the renovation process.

“Sometimes they were here from 06:30 to 21.00, but when they had the bedroom door it wasn’t that bad,” she tells People. “We also celebrated Christmas through all the chaos.”

It was worth it in the end, because Bogg’s children were very happy to have their own spaces and of course to start decorating.

“We have done so many memories here. We were looking for a year or two for a place but could not find something we really wanted compared to what we have, so we decided on home improvements and made our home as we want it,” Bogs says. “We have taken up our children in this home, which makes it difficult to leave.”