We are continuing our look at design details which make a garden room stand out. Today we are looking at living roofs and showing you some of the best examples we’ve seen over the years.
Roofs
Archive of articles looking at different elements of garden room roof construction. From roof shapes to the popular materials used.
Maintaining a garden room
Even if you choose all the low maintenance material options you can when designing your garden room. Our experience tells us that no building can be completely maintenance free.
Innovations at Garden Spaces
It’s exciting for us to witness new innovations in garden room design, whether they be new design features or the use of cutting edge materials, one of the leaders in garden room innovation is Garden Spaces who consistently are pushing the envelope and coming up with new features.
How can you tell if this garden office is well insulated?
If you took a trip to this garden office in London you would find it warm and cosy, even with this week’s extreme temperatures. The office is heated by underfloor heating and is providing a comfortable ambient heat. However a warm room doesn’t tell you that the office is well insulated, even though it is a good indicator!
Cedar Shingle Roofs
With a trend for planning permission friendly flat roof garden rooms you don’t see that many cedar shingle roofed garden rooms these days, we spotted this one recently on our travels and think it looks lovely!
Green Roofs…. A Swift review
Luxury garden room designers Swift explain the options (including costs) when it comes to choosing a green roof for your garden room
A garden room can help you save water
As we hear about more parts of the UK suffering from drought, we should all be aware of the water we use and collect, and of course your garden room can help!
Types of Garden Roof
Living roofs are popular in garden room design but there are several different types as this guest post explains
Garden Room Guttering
There is a debate amongst garden room suppliers over the inclusion of rainwater collection systems in garden room specifications – some suppliers include them as standard whilst others don’t think they are necessary, our opinion is that guttering is a must on garden rooms having witnessed how much water can be collected from even the […]
Garden room roof construction
There are three main types of roof construction which can be used on a garden room, a warm roof construction, cold roof construction or a structural insulated panel construction. This article weighs up the benefits.