You are not limited to one room when building a garden room. It is relatively easy to divide a building up to serve more than one use. Bespoke designers, Executive Garden Rooms offer this service to their clients. Starting with a blank sheet and designing the building and its internal layout around their customers intended uses.
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Archive of the most recent articles published on The Garden Room Guide. Exploring different garden room uses, materials and construction techniques and the odd special offer.
Outside staff room frees up space
Garden rooms are not just for domestic settings; they can also be the perfect way to free up space in a commercial setting. A fine example is this staff room and communal space that has been built in the grounds of a residential home in Cornwall.
Opting for a slightly bigger garden room pays off
If we were asked what our top five tips for buying a garden room were. One of the entries would be, to buy a garden room slightly bigger than you think you need. This will give you room to grow and offer a flexibility of use in the future.
Contemporary man cave building
Buying a garden room does not have to be a hurried process. There can be a lot of benefits to taking your time. This is what Alan did when buying his man cave building. Taking time to hone the design, so that it was big enough to incorporate a pool table & bar and maximised views of the garden.
Choose off-site construction for a high-spec finish
Off-site construction can ensure a high specification building both inside and out. Building With Frames has recently completed 10 self-contained holiday pods with luxury interiors.
Designing a garden room for a heatwave
There are design tricks you can use to ensure that your garden room is a comfortable space to spend time during a heatwave. Often our concern is will the room be warm in winter, but with our summers becoming hotter, we need to consider that too.
Swift garden room exceeding expectations
A year in the planning, this riverside outdoor sitting room by Swift has exceeded its owner’s expectations. Clad with black composite cladding, the simple colour palette has created a striking building.
10 Differences between Summerhouses and Garden Rooms
When you could buy a good sized summerhouse for around £1,200, why would you spend at least ten times as much on a similar sized garden room? Isn’t the term ‘garden room’ just describing a posh summerhouse, that sits at the end of the garden? Well, there are at least 10 differences between summerhouses and garden rooms.
Garden music room with soundproof features
Executive Garden Rooms designed and built this 4m x 4m music room at the end of their clients garden. The music room incorporates soundproofing features including resilient bars to reduce vibrations and noise transmission. They can also enhance sound quality within the room.
Fully insulated garden workshop
If you are looking for a fully insulated workshop which will be a comfortable place to work all year round, you’ll want to talk to Garden Fortress. They have recently completed this 5m x 4m workshop with storage, in Wimbledon SW19.