My Outhouse is a family-run business based in Hertfordshire, designing and building bespoke garden rooms and garden annexes across the South of England. Their buildings are made for year-round use, with a SIPs shell on ground screw foundations, which also makes sloping plots easier to build on. Inside, walls are plastered and painted, so the finished room feels like part of the house.
The design style is contemporary, usually with a mono-pitched roof. Cladding ranges from cedar and composite to charred timber, plus brick slip and render where a building needs to tie in with the house. For self-contained annexes, they also help with planning applications and Building Regulations. They are a Which? Trusted Trader, and their Borehamwood showroom can be visited by appointment.
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My Outhouse design and install bespoke garden rooms and annexes from Hertfordshire, working across the South of England. This introduction explores their contemporary design approach, exterior options, year-round construction, interior specification and the support they offer for planning and regulations.
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