Garden Entertainment Suite Built Around a Golf Simulator
Published: 23 August 2026
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Golf simulator rooms are a rapidly growing part of the Guide, as more people invest in this type of sports entertainment room at home. In most of the projects featured, the owners have combined their love of golf with a room that serves other uses too.
This East Sussex project by A Room in the Garden takes the idea a good deal further. The building runs to just under 20 metres wide, and holds nine spaces under one roof, from the simulator itself through to a gym and a covered seating area.
A Simulator Room With the Height for the Swing
The simulator takes the whole left-hand third of the building, at 8.3m x 5.0m. Height is what decides whether a room like this works, and there is enough of it for a full swing, with the screen wall running to close to three metres. There is no glazing on the garden side, just a timber clad wall with five external lights, so the room can be kept properly dark.
Walls and ceiling are dark emerald, with the screen wall and the ceiling in front of it lined in dark acoustic panels. Artificial turf runs wall to wall with the hitting mat set into it, and the TrackMan unit sits out in front of the screen, projector ceiling-mounted behind, surround sound and air conditioning built in around it. It has a more contemporary feel than many simulator rooms we have featured.
Two sofas sit at the back of the room, which makes it an ideal viewing point for friends and a comfortable seat for when the room is used as a home cinema. The dark finishes and the sunken floor give it a proper cinema feel.
Steps Down, and a Bar Above the Play
The floor of the simulator room is set below the rest of the building, with timber steps leading down into it. The bar sits at the top of those steps and looks over the whole space. It is a good place to sit with a drink while you wait for your turn to play.
The level change earns its keep twice over. The roof runs as one flat plane the full length of the building, so the height has been found by excavating this end rather than by raising the roof over it, and the plan puts the simulator floor 660mm below the rest. It is an approach we have seen before in golf simulator spaces, and it is worth knowing that A Room in the Garden offer this kind of design, because it is what allows a full swing without a taller building standing in the garden. The step also lifts the bar above the play, looking down on the screen, which gives the room a real theatre feeling.
The bar is a black quartz counter with a waterfall end, a bottle and glass rack hung above it.
Kitchenette, Lounge and a Garden Side That Opens Fully
The kitchenette sits in a niche alongside, for making coffees and the like, picking up the same black cabinetry and quartz as the bar with oak shelves against a dark emerald, so the two read as one piece of joinery.
Beyond it the lounge is a lighter, calmer room, and the one the family use when nobody is playing. A geometric wallpaper in off-white and platinum runs across the back wall, a skylight brings daylight into the middle of the plan where the roof is otherwise solid, and underfloor heating runs beneath the boards so it's a streamlined space.
The lounge has uninterrupted views of the garden thanks to the expanse of bi-fold doors across the garden side. These fold to one side, and the internal floor and the deck outside are level with each other, so movement in and out is genuinely free-flowing.
A Covered Seating Area, With the Gym Behind It
Glazing at the corner of the lounge leads out onto a covered seating area, where A Room in the Garden have created an outdoor sitting room within the shelter of the canopy. It is deep enough to keep the sofas dry, and an infrared heater and downlights on the end wall keep it in use on a cold or dark evening.
Behind it, sliding doors lead into a small gym of 3.4m x 2.0m, where the owners keep a few pieces of their preferred equipment. The same geometric wallpaper carries through from the lounge, which carries the design rhythm of the project.
Bathroom and Storage
The bathroom is well specified. Marble-effect tiles run across the floor and up the walls, the shower sits behind a black-framed sliding screen with a rainfall head, and the vanity is wall-hung to keep the floor clear. The door is a pocket door, saving the space a swing door would take.
The storage room beside it is hidden behind wallpapered panels in the lounge, so it disappears into the wall.
Three Materials, Paired and Detailed
Three materials have been used outside, and the way A Room in the Garden have divided them between the elevations is what gives the building its character. Crisp white render takes the garden side, where all the glazing is. Vertical cedar clads the simulator block and the end return, weathered now to a soft grey against the render, while the same cedar lining the canopy soffit has maintained its warm natural tones under cover. Anthracite corrugated sheets have been used on the rear, the sides and the gym end, needing no maintenance on walls that are difficult to reach.
Holding the three together is an anthracite fascia running the full length of the roof in one unbroken line, with the door and window frames in the same colour.
SIP Construction and a Turnkey Service
A Room in the Garden build using structural insulated panels, which form the thermally efficient envelope, with further layers added inside and out so the rooms are finished like rooms in the house. Their turnkey service runs from design through planning approval to building control sign-off, which a building of this size will have required. Design is led by architect Lukas Brzozowski, who runs the company with his wife Ivana, and their own teams of craftsmen carry out the work, here working alongside the clients' golf simulator specialist.
Learn More
A Room in the Garden design and build garden rooms and living annexes from Brighton & Hove, working across Sussex and further afield, with pre-designed ranges alongside a fully bespoke architectural service. To find out what is possible on your plot, visit aroominthegarden.co.uk, call 01273 044 507, or email hello@aroominthegarden.co.uk.
