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Garden offices as property features

The team at Decorated Shed have sent us this blog on how a garden office can add value to your property: Garden offices come with a whole host of benefits. As well as being your sanctuary of work, where the distractions of home-life are left behind, a premium garden office also represents a shrewd addition [...]

April 29, 2010 Read full story
Garden Office by Decorated Shed

Garden Office by Decorated Shed

If you have ever thought all modern garden offices look the same, you’ll like the garden office from Decorated Shed. Whilst retaining the large expanses of glass popular in contemporary garden office design, Decorated Shed have used a unique configuration of solid panels, full length glazed panels and sliding doors to create a unique, light [...]

April 24, 2010 Read full story
Ecospace

Ecospace

You can tell Ecospace studios are designed by architects, the lines are crisp, the proportions perfect and the materials are high spec. surprisingly this high level of design is reasonably priced, with Ecospace studios starting at just £10,000 plus VAT and delivery. As the name suggests Ecospace studios are designed with the environment in mind. [...]

April 8, 2010 Read full story
Get Outer Space

Get Outer Space

Get Outer Space garden rooms have evolved from 15 years experience as timber frame house builders Cygnum. Extensive knowledge of timber frame design has been scaled down into a range of stylish, contemporary garden rooms. Get Outer Space have a sophisticated website which features the unique  ‘Spacemaker’ tool which allows customers to choose a  building [...]

March 26, 2010 Read full story
Decorated Shed

Decorated Shed

Decorated Shed has entered the garden building market with an innovative twist on the contemporary garden room. Whilst Decorated Shed have a selection of designs on their website, all garden rooms are built to order, so that the finished building meets the customer’s specific needs and tastes. The high specification, modular timber frame system has [...]

March 25, 2010 Read full story
GD Timber Designs

GD Timber Designs

Husband and wife team James & Claire Godman-Dorington offer prospective garden office purchasers the personal touch through their company GD Timber Designs. The bespoke design garden buildings are designed and built by James whilst Claire runs the office and liaises with customers. GD Timber Design’s traditional style painted buildings standout in a market full of [...]

March 23, 2010 Read full story

SIP’s the future of garden office construction?

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 [...]

February 24, 2010 Read full story

The three main ways of buying a garden room

There are three main ways of acquiring a garden room – choosing a standard design, commissioning a bespoke design or self building. Buying a standard design doesn’t mean compromising on layout or features, most garden room suppliers have some flexibility in their design and can offer choices of location of windows and doors, and different [...]

February 22, 2010 Read full story
Garden room of the month – Garenberg self-build

Garden room of the month – Garenberg self-build

Each month our editor takes a look at the best garden rooms on the market, February’s choice is the self-build range by Garenberg. How many of you have looked at a garden room and thought ‘I fancy building one of those myself’ and then found you don’t know where to start – well, Garenberg maybe [...]

February 1, 2010 Read full story

Garden Haze – A Modern Igloo keeps UK working

A Modern Igloo keeps UK working The struggle to work through the recent snow has affected many businesses with the Forum of Private Business estimating the cost to the economy could be as high as £230million.  When this is added to the cost to individuals of over £2,000/ year for an average commute of 45 [...]

January 14, 2010 Read full story
Garenberg

Garenberg

Garenberg produce beautiful contemporary garden rooms. Their Karma range is available in two external finishes, cedar tongue & groove boards and a stone composite finish which you would normally find specified by architects on high specification houses. The Karma range has a sturdy timber framework with 95mm of insulation in between. A marine plywood sheathing [...]

January 7, 2010 Read full story