From an Old Garage to a Modern Family Room
First Published: 23 September 2021
Refreshed: 7 November 2024
Reading Time: 1 minute 40 seconds
A garden room is an ideal way to transform outdoor space into a practical, year-round extension of your home. This project by Executive Garden Rooms showcases how an outdated garage and log store can be replaced by a modern, highly insulated garden room designed for the whole family to enjoy.
A Spacious, Multi-Purpose Design
Once the original garage was cleared, Executive Garden Rooms created a 7.4m x 4.2m garden room on the newly available footprint. This generous space was cleverly divided to offer a large main room, a shower room, and an airing cupboard. The main room is a bright, versatile area with lots of natural light, thanks to floor-to-ceiling glazing on the front elevation and a remote-controlled Velux roof window. Adding a roof window can dramatically enhance a garden room’s sense of openness—definitely a feature worth considering for any garden room project.
The Velux roof window includes rain sensors, allowing it to automatically close at the first sign of rain—an excellent feature that ensures the room stays comfortable and dry.
High-Pressure Shower Experience
Including a shower room expands the utility of the garden room, making it suitable for guests, hobbies, and extended family use. To integrate these facilities, Executive Garden Rooms managed extensive groundwork to connect the shower room to the mains supply. Their team handled all aspects, including the installation of a pumping station and a trench to house the water supply, foul drainage, armoured electric cables, and Cat6 data cables, ensuring the building was fully functional upon completion
The shower room includes a 125-litre pressurised water cylinder, ensuring excellent water pressure—even if taps are turned on in the main house. The cylinder is tucked away in a dedicated cupboard, which also serves as convenient storage space.
Durable, Low-Maintenance Exterior
This garden room’s exterior combines two low-maintenance finishes: the side and rear elevations are clad in white Cedral boards, and the front elevation is finished in crisp white render, matching the main house. Render is increasingly popular in garden room design for its modern appearance and low upkeep requirements. Here, it creates a striking contrast against the Anthracite Grey doors and windows, adding a stylish and contemporary look to the building.
Rendered finishes require a high level of skill to install properly, which not all garden room providers offer.
Learn More
For more details about this project, contact Executive Garden Rooms on 01202 874 766 or at info@executivegardenrooms.co.uk. Visit their website to explore more examples of their work and design options.
