Garden Room Projects We've been exploring
Since 2009, we have been writing articles about garden rooms, showcasing the versatility of these high spec, insulated garden buildings. We aim to inform buyers of their options and showcase the work of garden room companies, large and small.
Sanctum Garden Studio with shower room and kitchen
Sanctum Garden Studios offer four popular ranges, each providing a wealth of customisation options. In addition to these ranges, they also offer a bespoke design service. This is ideal for those with a unique design in mind or for those wanting to integrate a cloakroom, shower room, or kitchen.
L-shaped office/gym building with a covered seating area
Cosy Garden Rooms tailors each building to the unique needs of the customer. A prime example is this garden office and gym building that seamlessly integrates a sheltered outdoor seating area.
Install an eco loo in your garden room
Compared to installing a cloakroom connected to the mains services, incorporating a waterless eco loo into a garden room is a more straightforward and cost-effective solution. These toilets can also be retrofitted into existing garden rooms.
This article will introduce you to popular waterless toilet brands utilised in garden room designs and provide links for further information.
3-bedroom garden annexe
The 3-bedroom annexe, designed by A Room in the Garden, complies with the mobile home guidelines specified in the Caravan Act. Opting for this path offers an alternative to the traditional route of applying for planning permissions for an annexe. The projects they have designed, as linked above, exhibit the range of architectural possibilities available under these rules.
Green Retreats unveils exciting new features
Green Retreats continues to lead the way in innovation with the introduction of several new customisable design features on display at their Wescott showroom. To celebrate the launch of their new features, Green Retreats is having an Innovation event for the whole of October with has a special offer on all garden room orders with an installation before March 2024. Visit their Buckinghamshire showroom to see the latest innovations for yourself, or contact their Sales & Design Team to find out what offers can apply to your garden room project.
The latest trends shaping the world of luxury garden room design
The team at David Salisbury share with us the latest trends they are seeing creating their luxury garden rooms.
Rustic Realities
For those seeking a garden room that perfectly merges contemporary style with rustic detailing, look no further than Rustic Realities.
Garden art studio with kitchen
For creatives, having a dedicated space to work on projects without the need to clean up at day’s end is invaluable. The luxury of a space tailored to your unique needs, allowing for custom glazing arrangements that provide perfect lighting and frame garden views, and offering storage for materials is truly a dream. With Executive Garden Rooms, this dream is attainable.
Uniquely shaped garden entertainment room
Swift Unlimited has carved a niche for themselves in crafting such home entertainment spaces. Having seen examples of their high-end projects, a Swindon family, aware of Swift Unlimited’s expertise in premium buildings, reached out to the team. Their vision was a multifunctional space that seamlessly merged with the garden.
Transparently priced Sanctum Garden Studios
Sanctum Garden Studios offers four distinct garden room ranges, balancing functionality, aesthetics, and value for money.
They are transparent about their building costs, listing the prices for the different ranges and size options on their website. These prices include the foundation system, building installation, and VAT. The only extra expense, as Sanctum Garden Studios makes clear, is the final electrical connection between the studio and your house, which you would coordinate with a local electrician. Such transparency ensures buyers face no unexpected surprises.
Home gym and office annexe
This bespoke home gym and office building is different to many of the other examples we have shared because it was designed and built to a Building Regulation compliant specification that we commonly see in living annexe projects. Ark Design Build handle the approval process as part of their turnkey service. In this case, this also included obtaining planning approval.
While designed primarily as a home gym and office, the 42sqm L-shaped building—comprising two main rooms, a kitchen, and a shower room—offers versatile future use, including potential sleeping accommodation.
Garden music studio with acoustic porch
This 3.95m x 3.5m music studio by Garden Spaces allows their customer to play their saxaphone at 7am without disturbing the neighbours.
The acoustic specification has been designed around the customers requirements and includes an acoustic porch and double skinned window.
Cosy Garden Rooms
Based in the Midlands, Cosy Garden Rooms designs and builds insulated outdoor rooms for clients across the country. Where many competitors customise their standard designs, the Cosy Garden Rooms team believes in a personalised touch. Each room they build is custom-made, and designed around the requirements of the client and the unique characteristics of their garden.
Work from home in a Crusoe Garden Room
Creating a home office in a garden room has always been a popular choice for these versatile buildings, but these offices aren’t limited to solo desk workers. They can serve as successful business premises, accommodating multiple desks and providing ample storage space for goods and materials.
Crusoe Garden Rooms Limited crafted this 7m x 3.5m building, which has become the ideal workplace for clients in Nottingham. Priced just under £26,000, this garden office is not only functional for business but also enhances property value and offers flexibility for a diverse range of future uses.
A uniquely shaped mobile home slots into the garden
In an ideal world, every garden would have perfectly straight boundaries set at right angles. Unfortunately for many, this isn’t the reality. Irregularly shaped gardens can pose challenges for those wishing to install a garden annexe, given that most designs available are rectangular.
A Room in the Garden as bespoke design specialists, can create uniquely shaped living annexes that slot into the garden, maximising the space available. They designed this one-bedroom mobile home under the Caravan Act.
Green Retreats: Special Offers & New Features
There’s never been a better time to invest in a garden room from Green Retreats. They’ve just introduced a fresh design element that adds a hint of Scandi flair. To celebrate the Bank Holiday, they’ve unveiled a special promotion. Plus, their newly-released Basebox design comes with attractive 0% finance options.
Garden office and entertaining space
Currently, a trend in garden office design is the addition of a covered area next to the insulated workspace, serving as a spot for relaxation and entertainment. As shown by this My Eco Space project, these two functionalities can be combined seamlessly into one cohesive building.
Embracing ‘quiet luxury’: elevating your home and garden with understated elegance
As a response to the non-stop nature of modern life, the trend of ‘quiet luxury’ has been steadily gaining popularity in interior design. Quiet luxury embraces the concept of understated elegance, refined simplicity, and a focus on quality materials and craftsmanship.
If you’re looking to create your own serene and sophisticated sanctuary in your home and garden, Karen Bell, Creative Director at David Salisbury, shares some practical tips to embrace the quiet luxury trend.
Compact garden gym
This 3m x 2.5m project by Garden Spaces proves that you don’t need a big garden to build a garden gym. The well-specified building features a mix of glazing to ensure a naturally light space and low-maintenance exterior finishes offering long-term durability and aesthetic appeal.
Downsize to a bespoke garden annexe
Swift Unlimited’s clients were looking to downsize. They partnered with Swift Unlimited to craft a custom one-bedroom home in their daughter’s garden. The layout and amenities of the annexe were tailored to the clients’ needs, with the Swift team overseeing the entire project—from the initial design to the delivery of keys for the move-in-ready home.
Work, Rest & Play Garden Rooms
Executive Garden Rooms’ clients in Poole, Dorset, presented them with a unique brief: to create two garden room buildings situated about 25m apart in a woodland setting. The larger of the two buildings was to be divided into two rooms, each with its own external access. These buildings were to serve as a home office, gym, and a quiet space for reading and relaxing.
Garden office, gym, and covered seating area under one roof
This 8.5m x 4.3m garden room in Banstead, Surrey, illustrates perfectly how these versatile buildings can accommodate multiple uses under one roof. Garden Fortress designed and built the space, dividing it into a home office, gym, and sheltered outdoor seating area.
The chosen site at the end of the client’s garden featured a significant fall in ground level. Garden Fortress installed a ground screw base and incorporated steps into the decking, making a feature out of the slope.
Light & airy garden annexe for the whole family
This 30 sqm garden annexe by Ark Design Build is designed for the whole family to enjoy. The pitched roofline creates a wonderfully light and airy interior. The annexe features a well-equipped kitchen and a shower room, which is customised according to the customer’s choice of tiles and fittings.
From conception to completion
Crusoe Garden Rooms Limited recently turned a client’s vision of a lakeside retreat into reality. Despite challenging conditions, Crusoe’s in-house team took care of the whole project, from the initial design to the completed room, including the final electrical connection.
Unlike many competitors who outsource installation, Crusoe Garden Rooms send their own team to sites across the UK, meaning you work with just one company throughout the project, allowing you to relax while your garden room comes to life.