Most people think of the garage as a place to park a car, store holiday decorations or hide the clutter of everyday life. Page Sigband sees something entirely different.
To the founder of Joyride Garage Design, the garage is often the most personal room in a home: a place where passions are pursued, collections are displayed and memories are preserved. It’s where prized automobiles sit alongside family heirlooms, where hobbies become rituals and where stories unfold.
“For a lot of people, the garage is an afterthought,” Sigband says. “For me, it’s my favorite room in the house.”
It’s that perspective that has made Sigband one of Orange County’s most distinctive designers working today. In a world where most designers focus on kitchens, great rooms and primary suites, Sigband has carved out a niche few saw coming: luxury garages, automotive showrooms and collector spaces designed around the things people love most.
Sigband originally thought she would become a graphic designer. After earning her undergraduate degree, she discovered a furniture design program at Savannah College of Art and Design and pursued a master’s degree, immersing herself in the world of making, materials and craftsmanship. Even then, storytelling was at the center of her work.
While many students focused on form alone, Sigband built her graduate thesis around the Seven Deadly Sins, creating furniture pieces inspired by each sin. Her professors questioned whether seven pieces would be too ambitious, but Sigband pushed forward. “When I have an idea, I go big and I go all in,” she says.
The "Un Relax" Chair Design by Page
One piece from that collection still lives in her home today: a fiberglass trunk designed to represent greed, its sides bulging as though overfilled. Today, it stores fabric remnants and treasured materials she can’t bear to part with.
Another keepsake, a curved lounge chair she designed and built more than 30 years ago, still occupies a place in her studio. The chair once traveled to Paris to represent her school at an international furniture exhibition, and today serves as a reminder of where her creative journey began.
Those early experiences established two principles that continue to guide her work today: a deep understanding of how things are made and a belief that every object should tell a story.
After graduate school, Sigband worked for a multidisciplinary design firm in Washington, D.C., creating immersive museum exhibits, including projects for the International Spy Museum. Unlike traditional galleries, these environments blended history, storytelling, graphics, audio and interactive experiences. “It was almost like theme parks meeting history,” Sigband says. That emphasis on narrative would become central to her future work.
California gave Sigband the opportunity to explore another side of design. She worked in home furnishings, managed retail showrooms and spent years buying and selling antiques. When she and her husband purchased a new home during the pandemic, she didn’t start with the kitchen or living room, she started with the garage.
Drawing on her background in furniture design and woodworking, Sigband created a space that was equal parts workshop and studio. As she shared the transformation, requests from friends started rolling in. Soon after, producers from Garage Rescue reached out, inviting her to design garages for the television series: a project that introduced her to the world of automotive collectors and ultimately inspired Joyride Garage Design. “I loved working with collectors,” she says. “I thought, why isn’t anyone focusing on this?”
Drawing on her background in furniture design and woodworking, Sigband created a space that was equal parts workshop and studio. As she shared the transformation, requests from friends started rolling in. Soon after, producers from Garage Rescue reached out, inviting her to design garages for the television series: a project that introduced her to the world of automotive collectors and ultimately inspired Joyride Garage Design. “I loved working with collectors,” she says. “I thought, why isn’t anyone focusing on this?”
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For Sigband, the starting point isn’t a color palette or design trend. She wants to understand what excites her clients, what they collect and how they want to experience the space. “I don’t design rooms,” she says. “I design experiences around the things people love the most.”
Sometimes that’s a showroom for a rare car collection. Other times it’s a garage condo with views of the runway or a place where grandparents can spend weekends with their grandchildren surrounded by the cars they love. Those types of conversations become the foundation for the design. “It always comes back to storytelling,” Sigband says.
Interestingly, Sigband doesn’t consider herself a car collector. But she understands the mindset. Her own home is filled with flea market finds, antiques, handmade furniture and objects gathered over decades. One wall of bookshelves in her kitchen displays an eclectic collection of treasures that others may have overlooked.
“I don’t necessarily collect cars,” she says, “but I understand the collector mentality.”
Though she no longer spends her days building furniture, Sigband still approaches design through the eyes of someone who understands construction, materials and craftsmanship. “I have a sense of how things are built,” she says. “It changes the way that I design.” That mindset shapes everything from custom furniture and cabinetry to lighting and flooring selections.
Lighting, she says, is one of the most important elements in a garage environment. “The car is the star of the space,” Sigband explains. “The design around it should support it, not compete with it.” She often favors porcelain flooring, polished concrete, dimensional wall graphics, custom installations, murals and quotes inspired by her museum exhibit days.
Many of today’s luxury garage spaces feature soaring 25-foot ceilings, car lifts, climate control systems, entertainment areas and wet bars. Some include racing simulators, pinball machines and collector displays. As garage condos and luxury automotive spaces continue to grow in popularity, Sigband finds herself working on increasingly ambitious projects, including a 3,000-square-foot collector space overlooking John Wayne Airport. The client’s vision? A place where family and grandchildren can gather, surrounded by cars, games and memories. “It’s not just about storing vehicles,” Sigband says. “It’s about creating experiences.”
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Breaking into the automotive world wasn’t easy. Sigband describes herself as an introvert, and entering a largely male collector community felt intimidating at first. Someone had suggested she attend local Cars and Coffee gatherings. At first, she simply observed; photographing details, studying reflections on polished paint, admiring hood ornaments and discovering design elements she’d never noticed before. Curiosity became her guide.
She struck up conversations with collectors, photographers and enthusiasts, learning not only about cars but about the people behind them. “I discovered what an incredible community it is,” she says. Over time, relationships formed, opportunities followed and her reputation grew. Today, she can point to garages she designed, television appearances, collaborations with major brands and projects that have earned her a respected place within the automotive community.
Back home, Sigband’s own garage tells a story, too. There’s an early-1900s woodworking bench. A chalkboard wall where her daughter once drew as a child. Surfboards belonging to her husband. Labeled drawers of tools. Above it all is a quote her father repeated throughout her childhood: “Measure twice, cut once.” It’s advice that has stayed with her, both in woodworking and in life. And there is, inevitably, a bit of chaos. “My garage is usually messy,” Sigband says with a laugh. “We have an active family, so there’s no way to keep everything behind cabinet doors.”
Her nine-year-old daughter often helps with projects, handing over material samples or experimenting with ideas of her own. Through years of home renovations, Sigband has used her house as a testing ground, trying out trades, materials and concepts before recommending them to clients. “She’s seen design in action,” Sigband says of her daughter. It may be no surprise that her daughter now builds imaginative worlds through drawings, miniature creations and Legos. The next maker may already be in the making.
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Looking ahead, Sigband’s work continues to expand beyond traditional garages. Along with a growing portfolio of luxury garage condos, she has several private jet hangar projects in development, spaces that blur the line between automotive showroom, aviation lounge and luxury retreat. While each project is different, the goal remains the same, creating environments that celebrate what clients are most passionate about.
Sigband intentionally keeps Joyride Garage Design functioning as a boutique studio, taking on projects that inspire her and leave room for creativity. “I just want enough work to keep my creative soul happy,” she says. That is what has allowed her to stay connected to each project and every client.
For Sigband, designing a garage is never really about the cars. It’s about the people. It’s about preserving memories, passions and creating spaces that feel personal. And in a world where garages are too often overlooked, Page Sigband has shown that sometimes the most meaningful room in the house is the one hiding behind the garage door.
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