Choose a Structural Corner Post to Enhance Your Garden Connection
Published: 4 September 2024
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When people spend time in a garden room, one of the most common comments is about the full-height glazing often used. This design creates a wonderful connection between indoor and outdoor spaces, allowing you to enjoy the garden and its natural beauty, regardless of the weather.
Depending on where you purchase your garden room, you can usually have input into the style and positioning of the glazing. This allows you to frame the best views of your garden from within the room. If you choose to work with a bespoke garden room design specialist, you have even more options when it comes to glazing.
A popular choice in garden room design is to position doors and windows on the front and side elevations, creating a corner of glazing that floods the room with natural light. Typically, this configuration requires a section of the wall at the corner junction to support the roof structure. However, this can result in a chunky appearance at the glazed corner.
Miniature Manors, experienced garden room designers, offer a more streamlined glazed corner configuration. They can engineer their buildings so that a solid corner section is not required. Instead, they utilise a structural steel post at the corner junction, which supports the roof while offering a much thinner profile than a traditional solid wall would.
As you can see in the photos below, this structural post is clad in the same aluminium or uPVC finish as the doors and windows, seamlessly integrating it into the glazing configuration.
Opting for a corner glazing configuration with a steel corner post is a popular choice among Miniature Manors customers, as these projects demonstrate. The layout creates a panoramic view of the garden from inside the room.
Garden Sun Room Designed to Maximise the View
This 4m x 4m garden room was designed as a sunroom where the owners could enjoy the picturesque views of the Sussex countryside.
The corner glazing configuration was created by combining a set of sliding doors on the front elevation with a set of bifold doors on the right-hand wall. The structural steel post, finished in the same powder-coated aluminium as the doors, has a narrow profile.
Multi-Purpose Garden Room
In this project, the corner glazing configuration is part of the recessed canopy detail on the front elevation. Although this is a smaller glazing arrangement than the previous example, it is just as effective. Here, aluminium bifold doors are paired with a narrow, full-height window.
Bi-Fold Doors That Open Up the Corner of the Garden Room
For this 5.5m x 4m garden room design, Miniature Manors' clients chose two sets of aluminium bifold doors. When opened, the walls between the indoor and outdoor spaces disappear, creating a seamless connection.
Garden Annexe with Corner Glazing
This 8.7m x 4.4m garden living annexe features another example of corner glazing with bifold doors. The doors slide to one side, opening up the countryside views.
A Smaller Corner of Glazing
This corner glazing section is smaller than our previous examples but equally effective. This 5.9m x 3m garden room fits snugly beside the house. Divided into two rooms, the main room is flooded with natural light thanks to the corner glazing, which comprises a set of sliding doors on the front elevation and a full-height window on the side.
Garden Office with a View
In this 5.3m x 3.3m garden office, Miniature Manors' clients selected a corner glazing configuration that focuses the view onto the Sussex countryside. They chose a 3m wide set of sliding doors paired with a wide, full-height window on the side. The structural corner post ensures unobstructed views while they work.
Incorporating Opening Windows into Corner Glazing Configurations
While the previous examples used either two sets of doors or a combination of doors and fixed, full-height windows, this 3m x 4m garden office incorporates an opening window into its corner configuration.
This corner glazing consists of a set of uPVC French doors flanked by full-height fixed windows on each side. On the side wall, another full-height window has been installed, this time with a top-opening section for easy ventilation.
Learn More
To learn more about glazing options incorporating a structural steel post, contact the Miniature Manors team on 01403 610 619 or email them at contact@miniaturemanors.co.uk. See more examples of Miniature Manors' work on their website.
Miniature Manors specialises in projects in East Sussex, Surrey, and West Sussex.
