The Garden Room Guide

Decorated Shed describe how modern garden buildings can combine style with substance. Modern living is associated with minimal interior, plain walls and a natural light throughout. Eco-friendly buildings are beginning to follow that design quota, as are a new brand of garden buildings. Decorated Shed’s garden studios incorporate the essence of modern living, with sleek, [...]

The Home Office Company are offering customers a significant saving on their garden rooms, order before September 2010 and you can save 17.5% on all buildings – that’s an offer too good to miss! If you would like to experience the quality and feel of The Home Office Company’s buildings why not visit their show [...]

Garden rooms are a significant investment and a large object that you are going to be using, and looking at daily so it’s a good idea if you do some research before you buy. You have made a good start by visiting The Garden Room Guide and we aim to give you information about garden [...]

SIP’s which stands for Structural Insulated Panel’s are becoming a popular option in garden office construction. SIP’s are replacing the use of traditional timber frames in garden office construction, and offer considerable savings on materials, construction time and costs. SIP’s also offer better thermal and acoustic insulation than timber frames. In traditional timber framed buildings [...]

Like people, garden offices come in all shapes and sizes, and the style of roof chosen will have a significant effect on the appearance and feel of your garden office. Flat Roof Flat roof garden offices have become very popular over recent years because they often don’t need planning permission, because the overall building height [...]

For years the only real option for garden room, office or studio foundations was a concrete slab, and if your site is sloping this could result in a large, ugly, protruding mass of concrete which is difficult to disguise. Concrete slabs take skill to install correctly, and are a permanent addition to your garden (they [...]

Whilst double glazing is a standard feature on most garden office and studios specifications, some suppliers go a step further and offer low emissivity glazing. Low E glazing has a special coating on the outside of the inner pane of glass, this coating allows light and heat from the sun to pass into the room [...]

One of the main features of The Garden Room Guide are our reviews of garden room suppliers. We write each review from an independent standpoint and hope to provide you, the prospective purchaser with details on construction, materials, lead time, on site time and price. Click on the garden room supplier names to read our [...]

Each month we take a look at a different style of garden room, May’s choice is the most charming style of garden room, the Shepherds Hut. Traditionally a moveable shelter for a shepherd tending his flock, the shepherds hut has evolved into a modern comfortable space for use as a home office, artists studio or [...]

Garden rooms make excellent extensions There’s a lot of talk on The Garden Room Guide about self contained garden rooms for use as garden office, garden studios, home gyms or guest accommodation but we have not talked about garden rooms attached to your house, often known as sunrooms. Attached to the house like a conservatory, [...]

Garden Offices Garden offices are becoming common sight in British back gardens and create a professional working environment for home workers and business owners. Garden offices are no longer glorified sheds but modern buildings built to the same standards as timber frame housing, and they incorporate the latest technology meaning you can plug in your [...]

With all the kit we keep in our garden offices its important that we have it properly insured. Major insurers Direct Line advise us that all outbuildings within the boundaries of the home owners property are covered by their home insurance policies, however if used as an office for business purposes, the homeowner should consider [...]

A new guest blog from the team behind contemporary garden studios Atelier: Atelier was commissioned by Apropos to go to the next level in design and construction of highly efficient contemporary freestanding structures as more appropriate alternatives to existing architectural structures namely conservatories and garden rooms. “We set out to create something that was sustainable, [...]

A question we are frequently asked is “Do I need planning permission if I am going to use a garden office for business use?” We asked the experts at Get-Planning.com for their advice, and this is what they recommend: GARDEN ROOMS FOR BUSINESS USE There are two aspects to garden rooms and the need for [...]

To help you choose the right garden studio for your needs we have put together a few key questions you should ask before buying. What choice do you have over the studios layout? You may well be happy with the standard design of garden studio  you see in the brochure but do you have any [...]

Garden room suppliers are very good at publishing their prices in their brochures and websites, but when comparing different suppliers it is best to be aware of the hidden costs. Site visits are a valuable opportunity for the garden room supplier and customer to discuss the project face to face, to talk over the design [...]

Contemporary garden studio suppliers Atelier have a section ‘Special Offers’ on their website, check them out at http://www.atelierzone.com/7051/pages/special-offers.aspx

The team at Room4-y0u share there garden room build process with us:

Decorated Shed explain how a garden office can balance home life and work. The ‘Work/Life Balance’ has become a much-referenced term when talking about the stresses of work and the ability to relax after-hours. In essence, it relates to creating clear boundaries between the way that the body and mind operate when at work and [...]

The team at Booths Garden Studios have sent us these testimonials they received after recently installing studios: I just wanted to give you my feedback on today’s installation of the garden studio in my garden. Yesterday was a difficult day for the installers who had to get up very early in the morning, unpack the [...]

The Home Office Company now have a show site where you can experience the quality and feel of their buildings before you buy. The show building is located at: Selecta House Charing Hill Charing Kent TN27 0NL – This site is open 9-6 Monday to Saturday, although The Home Office Company do require an appointment [...]