The Garden Room Guide

Garden room, garden office & garden studio buyers guide

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special offers

Save 25% on a 5m x 3m garden room

The folks at GRL – Garden Room Living are running a January promotion. They have three 5m x 3m garden rooms available for £15,000 each. This is a saving of 25% on the RRP.

Exclusive Crown Pavilions Offer

To celebrate the Easter holidays Crown Pavilions are running an exclusive promotion for The Garden Room Guide readers on their Crown Garden Room range. All you have to do is request your exclusive promo code by clicking here.

The Home Office Company Offer

The Home Office Company are offering The Garden Room Guide readers £500 of John Lewis vouchers with every garden room order, ideal for buying furniture for your garden room or just treating yourself!

To qualify for this offer you need to place your order by 31 August 2011 and mention The Garden Room Guide at the time of ordering. This offer supersedes any other offer by The Home Office Company published on The Garden Room Guide and its associated sites.

For more details contact The Home Office Company direct on 0333 800 5050

Love is…a garden studio

Give the person you love a room of their own this Valentines Day! Booths Garden Studios are launching a new range of compact garden studios and offering them at an outstandingly low price if ordered by 14 February 2011.

Based on their popular QC range the new QT range is designed for those of you with a small garden or small budget!

Available in four sizes (internal size quoted):

QT LoLine Garden Studio 1800mm x 1800mm = £4977.33
QT LoLine Garden Studio 1800mm x 2700mm = £5517.31
QT LoLine Garden Studio 2700mm x 1800mm = £5703.90
QT LoLine Garden Studio 2700mm x 2700mm = £6266.56

These prices include VAT and delivery throughout the UK

Specification

  • Foundation included
  • “V Groove” Hickory 8mm Laminate flooring
  • 150mm of insulation in floors, walls and roof
  • Interior wall mounted lighting
  • Surface mounted double sockets
  • Consumer unit/fusebox
  • Can be installed on sloping ground
  • You can also take the QT with you if you move home since like all our Studios, they are portable

There are no photos of the QT yet but Booth’s say it will look very much like their small QC3 (above)

So, if your looking for a small but perfectly formed garden studio at a great price give Booths Garden Studios a call before 14 February 2011

Extra Rooms – Bespoke Garden Rooms

If ever there is an apt name for a garden room supplier its Extra Rooms because that’s exactly what theses bespoke timber buildings are – Extra Rooms!

Extra Rooms create bespoke fully insulated garden rooms designed for year round use. Because of their skill as bespoke designers Extra Rooms can create garden room solutions for awkward sites or if you want a building with multiple uses such as a garden office with integrated shed / store area, in addition because all buildings are built to order non standard sizes can be specified.

The team behind Extra Rooms have over 30 years experience in the building industry and they have developed a proven method for constructing their garden rooms. All buildings are built using the traditional timber frame method with walls finishing up around 127mm (5”) thick including insulation and air cavities which combine to make a warm building. As well as creating garden rooms that have good thermal insulation properties Extra Rooms can also build soundproof garden rooms for use as music rooms or recording studios, the Extra Rooms website has an interesting case study showing how a soundproof recording studio was built.

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Extra Rooms offer a choice of exterior wall claddings from feather edge boards which blend softly with the environment to log lap or profiled shiplap boards, all cladding is screwed into place rather than nailed. The eaves detail is exaggerated for aesthetic appeal but also provides added protection to the walls from the elements. You have a choice of roof coverings from long life hot rolled felt, tantalised pine shingles to Canadian cedar shingles.

All garden rooms have standard building regulation approved doors and windows which are glazed with toughened double glazed units. Doors and windows are fitted with insurance approved locks.

Internally Extra Rooms are plaster boarded and skimmed, and then painted and skirting’s are added giving the feeling of a ‘proper’ room, the floor is finished in a hardwearing laminate. All electrics are fitted within the frames whilst in the workshop so there are no ugly surface mounted electrics.

All Extra Rooms are built offsite meaning that 80% of the buildings is ready before it gets to site, onsite installation can take as little as one day.

The Extra Rooms website gives clear examples of price for their standard specifications and for extras such as foundations and sedum roofs. Extra Rooms seem very up front about costs and we don’t feel you’ll find there are hidden extras.

Lead times are currently around five weeks between deposit and installation and Extra Rooms offer a customer area on their website where you can see regularly updated photos of your garden room being built.

For those not looking for a bespoke garden room you can benefit from a special offer on some of the standard designs that Extra Rooms hold in stock. Built to the same high standards as their bespoke garden rooms, buildings can be brought from £6,000 plus VAT including installation – surly too good to miss!

For more information about Extra Rooms take a look at their website www.extrarooms.co.uk

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