A dad who started a company fitting bespoke garages as a side hustle now works for celebrities and has turned over £6m in just seven years. Harry Harvey, 33, has worked with famous names, including Jake Paul, Alison Hammond, and Stacey Solomon, since setting up Garage Style LTD.
The successful firm now employs 13 staff and fits custom PVC tiles for garages, workshops and home gyms. A married dad-of-one from Hertfordshire, Harry started out as an apprentice for a car manufacturing company. But full-time employment wasn’t enough to satisfy his entrepreneurial spirit, so he started selling his dad’s craft knives on eBay.
He then teamed up with his uncle’s PVC tile manufacturing business to create a way for people to show off their vehicles. Fast forward seven years and he’s now a successful businessman – and he’s not stopping there. He said: “I’d get all my work done but I couldn’t stop thinking of ideas to build a business of my own. I wanted a brand.
“In 2020, I decided to take the leap into self-employment. eBay was paying my bills but I wanted something more secure.”
Six months after starting his business, Harry says he had seen a post from car content creator Yiannimize on social media that said he wanted a garage makeover. The creator, who boasts over two million subscribers on YouTube, became the first of many celebrity clients for the firm – with social media videos providing them with great promotion.
Harry says requests starting rolling in from there, and the company has now worked on around 200 celebrity garages. His favourite project, the owner says, was for controversial YouTuber and boxer Jake Paul at his mansion in Puerto Rico.
Harry added: “I saw the gap in the market to use his tiles in a different way. My experience with cars meant I knew that people would want to take care of their vehicles and show them off. It definitely took some time, but we did a lot of celebrity collaborations from quite early on. That definitely helped to boost us on social media. It just snowballed on from there.
The social media videos of these celeb transformations have been extremely popular, reaching millions of views on Instagram and TikTok. The dad says they now have almost one million followers across their social media platforms.
And their most recent project for YouTuber Mat Armstrong- who has over four million subscribers – is the biggest yet, according to the owner. He added: “It has definitely snowballed on a lot further than we thought possible. It is crazy the sort of people we get popping up to ask for quotes.”
For the future, the company are working on getting their own warehouse to use as a showroom and are branching out into garage doors. Harry says a huge motivation for his success has been his family, including his wife of 12 years and his three-year-old son Tommy.
He said: “I’ve been lucky enough to take the family along to Vegas and Dubai for business meetings. Working hard means we can have treats like Disney too. Tommy is our biggest fan and loves wearing the Garage Style merch.”