Garage Additions in the Twin Cities
Stonehearth Remodeling has been building attached and detached garages across the Twin Cities since 1999 — room for the cars, the gear, the workshop, and the living space above.
Room to Park, Store and Live
A Minnesota winter makes the case for a garage on its own. But a garage addition does more than keep frost off the windshield — it absorbs the bikes, the tools, the lawn equipment, and the seasonal clutter that would otherwise fill your basement.
Build the right one and you get a second floor almost for free. Stonehearth designs garage additions that match the roofline, siding, and trim of the existing house, so the result reads as original rather than bolted on.
Plan Your Garage →Types of Garage Additions We Build
Attached or detached, one stall or four — here’s where most garage projects land.
Attached Garage Additions
The most common request, and the most convenient: walk from the car into the house without stepping outside. Usually paired with a mudroom or entry remodel.
Detached Garages
Better when setbacks, the driveway, or the shape of the house rule out an attached build — and the easier route to a workshop or a studio above.
Garage Expansions
Going from two stalls to three, deepening a shallow garage for a truck, or widening it so the doors actually open with cars inside.
Living Space Above
A bedroom suite, office, studio, or in-law suite over the garage, reached from inside the house or its own staircase.
Mudrooms & Breezeways
The connection matters as much as the garage. A mudroom with lockers, benches, and a drop zone is where a Minnesota winter actually gets handled.
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Tell us what you need your home to do, and we’ll help you find the right fit and budget.
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Is a Garage Addition Right for You?
A garage is one of the few additions that pays you back in daily convenience from the first winter. It’s worth considering if:
- You’re scraping windshields every morning. Covered parking protects your vehicles from snow, hail, and falling branches, and saves you the scraping.
- Your basement is doing a garage’s job. Move the tools, tires, and seasonal gear out and the basement is suddenly worth finishing.
- You want a workshop or studio. An insulated, heated garage is the cheapest square footage you can build for projects that don’t belong in the house.
- You need the space above more than the space below. Building the garage is how you get a second-floor suite, office, or playroom onto the lot.
- You’re thinking about resale. In this climate, a garage is close to an expectation. Adding one widens the pool of buyers if you ever do sell.
What to Plan For in a Garage Addition
Garages look simple and are governed by more rules than almost anything else we build. We work through all of this before design is finished:
- Setbacks and lot coverage: every city caps how much of your lot can be built on and how close to the property line a garage can sit.
- Driveway and approach: where the garage goes decides where the driveway goes — and whether you can actually turn into it.
- Grading and drainage: a new slab changes how water moves across the lot. Getting it wrong puts that water against your foundation.
- Foundation: if you want living space above, the footings and frost walls have to be designed for it from the start. Adding it later is far more expensive.
- Insulation and heat: an attached garage against living space, or a heated workshop, changes the insulation and fire-separation requirements.
- Matching the house: siding, roof pitch, trim, and window proportions are what make the difference between an addition and an afterthought.
Already have a garage you’d rather convert than replace? See our garage remodeling work.
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Serving the Twin Cities Metro
We build garage additions for homeowners across the greater Twin Cities area — from Andover and Coon Rapids to Bloomington, Minnetonka, and St. Paul. Give us a call to find out if we serve your location.
- Andover
- Anoka
- Blaine
- Bloomington
- Brooklyn Center
- Brooklyn Park
- Champlin
- Columbia Heights
- Coon Rapids
- Crosslake
- Eagan
- Edina
- Fridley
- Golden Valley
- Ham Lake
- Maple Grove
- Minneapolis
- Minnetonka
- Mounds View
- New Brighton
- Plymouth
- Ramsey
- St. Louis Park
- St. Paul
- White Bear Lake
Don’t see your city? Call us — we likely serve it.
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Get the Cars Out of the Snow
Ready for covered parking, real storage, and maybe a floor above it? Reach out today for a free, no-obligation consultation.