A couple of days ago I wondered if garden room designers would be inspired by the lavender living roof in the ‘A Monaco Garden’ by Sarah Eberle at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, in response Paul Barton of Roomworks sent over this photo of a living roof on his show building. Although not planted with [...]
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Will Garden Room Designers Be Inspired By Chelsea?
The Chelsea Flower Show is always an exciting time to see the latest in garden design, and having now seen a few of the show gardens I wonder what inspiration the garden room designers we feature on this site will take from Chelsea 2011 and incorporate into their garden room designs? As a designer myself [...]
May 23, 2011 Read full story
Garden Rooms with Living Roofs
Let’s face it, a flat roof on a garden room is practical but it’s not always its most attractive feature, so why not make it a focal point with the addition of a living roof? More and more garden room suppliers are offering living roofs as an option on their garden rooms and with costs [...]
April 19, 2011 Read full story
Garden Studio Insulation Survey
Comparing garden studio specifications can be difficult: It can all get a bit confusing and you can feel that you are not comparing like with like. There is a way around this problem, which is to compare the u-values of the garden studio. The u-value is the rate at which heat is lost through the [...]
February 4, 2011 Read full story
Garden Studio Acoustic Insulation
Because they are highly insulated garden studios are not only thermally efficient but also acoustically efficient, but if you want to use your garden studio as a music room or recording studio you should consider some additional acoustic insulation. Garden Spaces have designed a range of acoustic insulation packages for both new builds and as [...]
January 28, 2011 Read full story
Round Garden Studio Guide
In a new series of articles we are going to look at the pros and cons of different shapes and styles of garden studio, to start we are looking at round garden studios and we have made a short video to accompany this article. Round garden studios have become popular over the last year or [...]
January 6, 2011 Read full story
Types of Garden Studio Cladding
The final appearance of a garden studio can be significantly affected by the style of cladding chosen – shiplap gives a building a traditional feel, log lap the rustic feel of a snow covered lodge and tongue & groove gives a garden studio a modern look. This article is by no means exhaustive but explains [...]
December 28, 2010 Read full story
Keeping Garden Offices Warm
So the weather has turned cold, and we have been reading on Twitter messages from people in their shed offices saying how cold they are! This concerns us at The Garden Room Guide, as a well built garden office should be as comfortable to use in the winter as a room in the main house. [...]
November 16, 2010 Read full story
Garden Offices – First Green Roofs Now Green Walls
A few months ago we pondered the question ‘Are living walls the next stage of garden office design’ and at the time the concept still seemed a way off and limited to one off builds, but now we have seen this ingenious green walling system by Treebox and we feel the concept could easily be [...]
November 8, 2010 Read full story
Beat the VAT increase – Those Garden Rooms
Twitter is the place to find the latest garden room news and we thought you’d like this tweet from www.thosegardenrooms.co.uk Beat the 20% VAT increase, we will honour 17.5% for the first three months of 2011 on all orders for builds before January 1st” Vistit www.thosegardenrooms.co.uk for more details!
October 22, 2010 Read full story
Changes to Part L of the Building Regulations
On the 1st October 2010 changes to Part L of the Building Regulations come into effect. Part L deals with how well a building conserves fuel and power. Whilst garden rooms don’t have to comply with Building Regulations unless they are over 15sqm and used for sleeping accommodation, many garden room suppliers do build their [...]
September 29, 2010 Read full story
