Render: a smart finish, and a low-maintenance one for garden rooms

Choosing an exterior finish is one of the more enjoyable decisions when specifying a garden room, and it is worth taking seriously – it sets the character of the building and shapes how much upkeep it will ask of you over the years. Render is one of the finishes available across the Modern Garden Rooms ranges, and a recent run of projects shared on their Instagram makes a good case for it. It is a smart design choice, giving a building a clean, contemporary, house-style appearance, but it is a wise practical one too: rendered walls are hard-wearing and ask very little of an owner once the building is up, which makes render one of the lower-maintenance finishes on offer.

Render opens up a huge amount of choice on colour – there are hundreds of shades to pick from, so you can match a building to your house, your garden, or simply your taste. That said, classic white remains far and away the most popular choice, and it is easy to see why. Paired with black-framed doors, windows and trims, white render creates a stylish, high-contrast look that reads as crisp and modern from anywhere in the garden. The pale wall throws the dark frames into relief, and the whole building takes on a sharp, considered quality. It is a combination that flatters the clean geometry Modern Garden Rooms are known for – and getting a rendered finish looking that crisp takes a practised hand. The team clearly know how to handle render, and across these projects you can see how well it accentuates the clean lines of their different ranges.