Garden Rooms with Covered Outdoor Seating Areas
On this page, we've gathered a range of projects featuring garden rooms with covered outdoor seating areas to give you ideas for extending your living space. Adding a side or front canopy to your garden room has become increasingly popular, creating a versatile space for seating, dining, outdoor kitchens, or even hot tubs.
The placement and depth of the covered area often depend on your available space and how you plan to use it. While side canopies are common, some designs place the covered area at the front of the garden room, forming an L-shaped layout. Explore the projects below to see how designers adapt these features to different settings.
Covered seating areas can feature solid walls for added privacy or open-sided designs with posts that create seamless flow into the garden. Some companies also include skylights, either open or glazed, so you can enjoy the outdoors even in less favourable weather.
In the evening, these spaces come alive with the option of integrated lighting. Many garden room companies offer exterior-grade LED downlights, with some systems allowing you to adjust lighting colours via your smartphone for a customised ambience.
Garden Room with Covered Outdoor Area Examples
You’ll notice in the examples below that designers often tie the covered seating area into the main garden room by using matching materials. Alternatively, some mix materials to create a striking contrast, using different colours or textures to highlight the design.
The articles are listed with the most recently published first, so use the pagination to explore the full range of ideas.
L-Shaped Garden Room With Canopy for Year-Round Living
This bespoke L-shaped garden room by Cosy Garden Rooms combines a fully insulated interior with a covered canopy, creating a flexible, low-maintenance indoor–outdoor space designed for year-round working, relaxing and entertaining, tailored carefully to the clients’ lifestyle and sloping garden.
Garden Gym & Wellness Space
A bespoke Garden Gym & Wellness Space by Smart Modular Buildings, showcasing the Affinity range’s flexible sizing, tailored glazing and covered canopy, creating a calm, well-specified home gym with sauna and hot tub, designed for comfortable year-round use at home.
Booths Garden Studios and the Flyover Roof Option
Booths Garden Studios’ flyover roof option creates a sheltered outdoor sitting space and transforms the look of their QCB range. Engineered with a welded steel perimeter frame, the canopy can extend to around 1.2m deep without front support posts for a clean, open feel.
Insulated Poolside Retreat with Shower Room
A returning customer turned to Smart Modular Buildings again to create an insulated poolside retreat. The Suffolk Barn’s Low Line roof, New England styling, and flexible layout — complete with shower room and bar — offer a luxurious space beside the pool.
Indoor Outdoor Garden Games Room with Bar
Smart Modular Buildings’ Affinity Range creates a versatile indoor-outdoor space. This 10m x 3m games room combines a fully insulated interior with a dramatic canopy, French doors and bi-folds for year-round entertaining, complete with pool table, bar and lounge area.
Pool House with New England Style by Timeless Garden Rooms
Timeless Garden Rooms designed and built this New England-style pool house on Jersey. Featuring a traditional timber frame, handcrafted detailing, and a vaulted interior, it includes a rear shower room and a covered veranda overlooking the pool and sea views.
Soundproof Garden Studio for Recording & Teaching
Crusoe Garden Rooms designed this 7m x 3.5m soundproof garden studio in Market Harborough as a professional space for recording, teaching, and relaxing. The bespoke layout includes two main rooms, a cloakroom, and a stylish covered deck area.
Indoor-Outdoor Garden Room with Swim Spa
Heritage Garden Studios has designed an L-shaped garden room with a home office, stylish cloakroom, and covered swim spa. Featuring bi-fold doors, a canopy with recessed lighting, and low-maintenance finishes, it creates a seamless indoor-outdoor space for work and relaxation year-round.
Garden Room with Glazed Veranda
This bespoke garden room by Heritage Garden Studios combines an insulated room, glazed veranda, and decking for multi-use functionality. Durable, low-maintenance finishes and a minimalist, industrial-inspired design create a versatile, modern space tailored to the client’s needs.
L-Shaped Outdoor Entertainment Room
Cosy Garden Rooms crafted an L-shaped outdoor entertainment room in Kings Lynn, featuring an insulated garden room and two covered seating areas linked by composite decking. Built in five days, the project combines durability, low maintenance, and modern design for year-round use.
Extend Your Garden Room with a Hot Tub Shelter
Swift Unlimited can create covered outdoor areas alongside their highly insulated garden rooms, ideal for positioning a hot tub. These bespoke projects showcase how Swift seamlessly incorporates hot tub shelters into their designs, blending functionality with year-round comfort and style.
Home Pilates Studio by Rustic Realities
Rustic Realities crafted a 6m x 3.5m garden Pilates studio with a 1.2m veranda, blending contemporary design and rustic Thermowood cladding. Featuring hardwood plywood interiors, mirrors, and ceiling anchors, it serves as a fitness space and family retreat.
Inside-Outside Home Entertaining Space
Heritage Garden Studios created a stunning L-shaped entertainment space in South Yorkshire, featuring a 7m x 4.75m insulated room, a 5m x 2m canopied area, and panoramic sliding doors. Teak slatted composite cladding, decking, and countryside views complete this stylish, year-round retreat.
L-Shaped Office/Gym Building with a Covered Seating Area
Cosy Garden Rooms designed an L-shaped office and gym with a covered seating area, transforming an underused garden corner. The 7m x 3m insulated space features floor-to-ceiling glazing, Monterey Taupe Hardie Plank cladding, and a 4m x 4m sheltered seating area, integrating seamlessly with the garden for year-round use.
Garden Office and Entertaining Space
A trend in garden office design is integrating a workspace with a covered outdoor area for relaxation and entertaining. My Eco Space’s bespoke project combines a 5m x 4m insulated office with a 4m x 2.5m seating space, showcasing stylish functionality.
Garden Office, Gym, and Covered Seating Area
Garden Fortress created this bespoke 8.5m x 4.3m garden room in Banstead, combining a home office, gym and covered seating area. Built on a sloping site using ground screws, it features Western Red Cedar and Southern Grandis cladding with high-end interior finishes.
Garden Room with Corner Sliding Door Configuration
A Listed Building’s renovation limitations were overcome by Garden Spaces, creating a high-spec garden room with corner sliding doors. An innovative steel frame supports the structure without a corner column, enabling a seamless indoor-outdoor flow through low-profile thresholds and sleek finishes.
85sqm Two-Bedroom Garden Annexe
This 85sqm two-bedroom garden annexe by Timeless Garden Rooms provides a self-contained, adaptable living space for older relatives. Featuring two en-suite bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen and living area, and a covered veranda, it offers independence, comfort, and proximity for family care.
Garden Dining Room with Covered Hot Tub Area
This insulated garden room from Heritage Garden Studios offers year-round dining with seamless indoor-outdoor flow. Featuring bi-fold doors, Siberian Larch cladding, and a covered hot tub area, it’s a stylish, weatherproof space for dining and relaxation in any season.
Tailor Made Crusoe Garden Rooms
Crusoe Garden Rooms Limited specialises in bespoke, hand-crafted garden rooms, tailoring each design to clients’ unique needs—from specific lighting to custom layouts. Their flexible designs offer insulated, fully equipped spaces, from compact offices to spacious entertainment rooms.
Garden Room & Store with Glazed Pergola
AMC Garden Rooms created a versatile indoor-outdoor space combining a garden office, art studio, and storage area with a glazed pergola. The 6282mm x 3082mm structure features Thermowood cladding, a retractable roof, and windows, offering year-round functionality for work, relaxation, and entertainment.
Garden Office with Covered Seating Area
This multifunctional garden building combines a 5m x 3m insulated office and gym space with a 3m x 3m covered seating area. Featuring sliding doors and lots of glazing, it creates seamless indoor-outdoor connections for work and leisure.
Outdoor Room with Large Covered Deck
A modern garden room design combines an insulated space with a covered deck, featuring Cedar and burnt Siberian Larch cladding. The structure offers panoramic views through floor-to-ceiling glazing, remote-controlled lighting and customisable options for year-round outdoor living.
Insulated Garden Room with Open Seating Area
Bridge Garden Rooms’ Red Tarn range offers a unique blend of indoor and outdoor spaces, featuring an insulated main room with an open-sided seating area. Built for comfort in all seasons, this modern garden room includes cedar cladding, integrated LED lighting, and customisable features for seamless garden integration.