Double garage divided into control and live room?

[macgyver]

Hi all. I'm forward planning my new studio build for when I move to a new house in four weeks (See attached picture of what I’m working with).

I have a double garage that's already been converted a little with sliding doors and floor tiles. It’s 5.8m long, 5m wide, and the ceiling is 2.4m high (except for a steel girder that goes along the centre of the ceiling down the length of the room). There’s a mix of single and double brick, which I will line with insulated stud walls between each brick post and plasterboard over the top, including sealing up the window, plus I can fit a second door against the door that joins the house to the garage (double brick width there) with rubber seals around the door-jam to cut out noise from the house. The tiles will be covered with solid timber floors.

I’d like to make a control room and live room fit in the space if possible so that it looks the part for paying Canberra clients that I hope to attract to it, otherwise I’m going to have to just go with a single combined control/live room and a vocal booth in the corner. I figure a 2.5m x 4m rectangular space, would be big enough to fit a mixing desk into and still have enough room to record myself or a solo artist in – is that a workable space acoustically if I treat the room?

I of course want to maximise the size of the live room to accommodate a band. Is there any configuration that’s going to work in this small space (I've attached the best I could come up with), noting the following limitations:
1. The sliding doors are attached to the inside of the walls rather than within the entrance opening (my wife doesn’t want me ripping them out for replacement because they currently match with the rest of the house when viewed from outside).
2. Angled wall designs are out because, again, my wife won’t let me “commit business suicide” by spending our money on “unsightly rooms that no client will want to record in” (she’s big on aesthetics as you can tell!)

Thanks

[Soundman2020]

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