Garage conversion advice sought

Apologies in advance for this lengthy newbie post. I'm going to be converting my garage into a personal use composing/recording space and would like the help and advice of all of you wiser types. The garage is 22'3" square, with concrete block walls that sit on a poured slab. The walls reach a height of 7'9" at the perimeters, with a standard wood frame peak roof that tops out at 13'. At the front (South wall) of the garage are two standard garage doors, and there is a single 32" door opening on the West wall that starts 42" from the southwest corner of the building. There is also a single window on each side wall of the studio (my East and West). Each window is 54" wide, and the openings start 12'5" from the South wall. So much for the dimensions. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DRAWING ATTACHED IS NOT ACCURATE AS FAR AS WINDOW AND DOOR LOCATIONS. I do different types of work, but make my living primarily as a composer for television and film. I started out in the record business, and part of my intent here is to create a space that will allow me to do my regular work (I compose for All My Children on ABC), and also produce album projects for singer/songwriters and perhaps the occasional band. I do NOT need a large recording area that is optimized for bands and drums, mostly because I don't think I'll be doing that much of that, and also because I can get free time at another place to cut drums when I need to. Here is what I DO think I need: 1. A decent sized, comfortable recording/composing area with room for a console and mix position, and for a midi/keyboard station. One thought I had was the traditional "producer's desk" behind the mix station, with a master keyboard on top of it. Right now, I have an "L" shape, with the console as one leg and the keyboard station as the other. That would be ok too. 2. A machine room adjacent to the control room, with my patch bays in the room divider between the two. I had one in my last studio and can't live without it this time. Keeps things quiet and access behind the patch bays is much easier than crawling behind racks. My G4 Mac and all of the drives make a decent amount of noise. 3. A small office/lounge, with room for phone/fax/computer/printer, and maybe a small couch or some seating of some kind. 4. A recording space that is big enough for vocals, guitars, and possibly a drum kit. My thinking would be to do a "room in a room" of about 8 X 10 feet, put it on pucks and do as much as possible to isolate it, and not spend quite so much on the acoustic isolation of the rest of the space. I don't monitor too loud, so I would think that with block walls and reasonable insulation of the roof, framing in the garage door space, etc., I should be ok with street noise and neighbors. 5. A small bathroom. Finally, I would like to be able to remove my iso room and other studio specific treatments so that if and when we want to sell the house, I can market the garage as a studio apartment/guest house deal. I would greatly appreciate any ideas or input on this. I would like to keep within a 20 - 25K budget on the conversion, not including any gear, of course. Thanks in advance for the help. Jim

One more thing: I realize that the total square footage available may not be enough to do this right, so if it is absolutely necessary, I think I could bump out a portion of the North wall and add a shed extension to it. I'd prefer not to spend the bread, but I want to do this right. My present composing space is only about 10 X 18, and is comfortable for me as a control room/composing room, so I hope that the total space in the garage will be enough. Thanks again. Jim

Your facility is about the size of mine (25x22) I have a decent sized control room and live room with a lobby area. The area I use for a lounge you could easilt retrofit for an office. basically segmenting your space into 4 squares, and building what you need. My Control room is 13x11 and live room is 12x11 Works perfectly.