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Garden Gym Building Ideas

This page brings together the full archive of garden gym projects we’ve featured, showcasing a wide range of designs by different companies. Some are modular, while others are bespoke, but all have been tailored to suit the client’s preferences and requirements.

The projects highlight how garden gyms can be personalised with features such as increased ceiling height for activities needing extra headroom, reinforced structures for weight training or resistance equipment, and shower rooms for freshening up after a workout. You’ll also find gyms with specialist features like golf simulators, saunas, steam rooms, or hot tubs, creating multifunctional wellness spaces.

The projects are listed most recently published first. Use the pagination to explore all the designs and gather ideas for your own garden gym. Click through to see how these spaces have been thoughtfully designed to meet a variety of fitness and lifestyle needs.

A Warwick Buildings garden gym with a treadmill, bike and multi-gym on foam mats, a mirror wall and windows opposite

Planning a Home Gym Garden Room With Warwick Buildings

How to plan a home gym in a Warwick Buildings garden room, from ceiling height and window placement to flooring, sockets and ventilation, and how their online configurator lets buyers shape the layout around their equipment and see the price.

Swift Unlimited garden room with a white render gable, cedar and black glazing, above a new dry stone retaining wall

A Golf Simulator Room, Gym and Office Under One Roof by Swift Unlimited

A 16m x 5m garden room by Swift Unlimited, holding an office, a WC, a gym and a golf simulator room with a bar. Planned alongside the garden’s new landscaping, it was built in seven weeks on a sloping site.

Western Red Cedar is used on the forward facing elevations

Why This Derbyshire Client Chose Crusoe Garden Rooms

Some clients draw their own outline plan and put it out to tender. This Derbyshire client did that, and Crusoe Garden Rooms built the result: an 8m x 4m garden room in cedar and Fusion with two sets of bi-folds.

Garden Spaces gym with ensuite and storeroom

A Garden Gym in Cambridge, From Design to Planning Application

Garden Spaces are taking a 3.25m x 8.0m garden gym through planning in Cambridge, working the design up as lifelike images set into a photograph of the client’s own garden, so the planners and the neighbours can see it properly.

Multi-use garden room by Eden Garden Rooms clad in vertical Western Red Cedar, with two sets of anthracite grey French doors

Multi-Use Garden Room in Essex by Eden Garden Rooms

A 7.5m x 4m multi-use garden room in Essex by Eden Garden Rooms, holding a gym, a music room and a pool changing area. Oak sliding doors between the two main rooms let them work separately or as one space.

View from the lounge sofa over the bar and down into the lit simulator screen beyond

Garden Entertainment Suite Built Around a Golf Simulator

Garden Entertainment Suite Built Around a Golf Simulator Published: 23 August 2026Reading Time: 5 minutes 20 seconds 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 […]

Vertically clad Western Red Cedar garden room by Executive Garden Rooms with two sets of anthracite sliding doors

10m x 3.5m Multifunctional Garden Room by Executive Garden Rooms

A 10m x 3.5m multifunctional garden room in Fleet, Hampshire by Executive Garden Rooms. Internal bi-folding doors divide a home gym from a family room, each with its own garden access, plus a shower room and a dedicated dressing room off the gym.

Timber Rooms worked with the simulator experts at Foresight Sports

Golf Simulator Room With a Bar in Kent by Timber Rooms

Timber Rooms have become a go-to name for golf simulator rooms in the South East. This 8m x 4.3m example in West Malling, Kent, pairs a full Foresight Sports installation with a bar, all under a 3m internal ceiling height.

A step has been designed in for easy access into the room

6m x 4m Garden Office and Gym in Kent by Ark Design Build

A 6m x 4m garden office and gym in Kent by Ark Design Build, built into sloping ground on screw foundations. Black cladding detailed to follow the slope, a canopy with downlights, a panoramic desk-height window, laminate and rubber flooring.

3.2m x 2.5m garden gym building by Lux Garden Rooms

A Small Garden Gym for Year-Round Use by Lux Garden Rooms

A compact garden gym by Lux Garden Rooms, sized to leave the family garden clear while still holding a treadmill and bike. Bi-fold doors and a full-height side window bring in the views, with honey-toned Thermowood cladding and SIPs construction for year-round use.

Timber Rooms designed the sauna as part of a wider wellness garden

A Well-Specified Spa Sauna in Kent by Timber Rooms

Timber Rooms is a go-to name for well-specified garden saunas in the South East. This 5m x 5m spa sauna in Herne Bay, Kent, shows the range: Thermo Radiata Pine cladding, a 4m glazed wall, and a full-length central skylight.

The golf simulator area

A Golf Simulator, Gym and Entertaining Space by Swift Unlimited

Swift Unlimited designed and built this multi-use garden room in Reading around one client’s brief: a golf simulator, a gym, a wet bar and three cloakrooms, under a dual-pitched roof that complements the garden’s existing Pilates studio. Completed in eleven weeks.

3m tall Garden Gym by Eden Garden Rooms

3m Tall Garden Gym With Shower Room by Eden Garden Rooms

A bespoke 3m tall garden gym in Streatham, London by Eden Garden Rooms. An L-shaped building split into a weights room with bi-fold doors and a cardio room with an ensuite shower, finished in vertical Western Red cedar with anthracite grey fascia.

Western Red Cedar clad garden gym and office with store room by Ark Design Build

A 53sqm Garden Room With Gym, Office and Storage in Kent

Ark Design Build created this 53sqm Kent garden room housing a gym, office and storage room. Each has its own access, with two rooms linked internally, aluminium sliding doors, skylights and Western Red Cedar cladding and a Millboard deck externally.

5.8m x 3.6m garden room taller than standard to allow for the owners gym equipment

Gym, Home Office and Bar in One Garden Room

A 5.8m x 3.6m garden room in Worsley, Greater Manchester by Lux Garden Rooms, combining a gym, home office and bar in one space. Western Red Cedar cladding, 3m aluminium bifolds, and a corner position that keeps the garden free for football.

Western Red Cedar has been used on the front elevation paired with dark grey Hardie Plank composite cladding

Cedar Garden Office with Store and Through Access for a London Garden

This 4.6m x 3.7m cedar-clad garden office in Wimbledon by Timber Rooms fills a London terrace plot boundary to boundary, with a secret store and rear door that keeps the alley access the client needed. One bespoke building works as office, hangout, and gym.

The garden room nestles into the garden planting

Office, Gym and Storage: A 5.8m x 5.6m Garden Room Divided into Three

A 5.8m x 5.6m garden room in Derbyshire by Cosy Garden Rooms, divided into three distinct rooms: a large flexible living and working space, a private gym, and a lockable storage room — all within a single, well-considered building.

Slatted acoustic panels slide to one side to open up the other rooms

Garden Office, Gym and Guest Bedroom Annexe by A Room in the Garden

This annexe by A Room in the Garden delivers a home office, gym and self-contained guest accommodation in one garden building — giving a busy family the space they need and genuine privacy for everyone on the property.

Swift Unlimited engineered the building around the requirements of the sunken pool

A Home Gym and Spa Retreat by Swift Unlimited

wift Unlimited designed this bespoke wellness building near the North West coast, combining a home gym and a hotel-quality spa retreat with a sunken pool. Planning, Building Control and all specialist installations were managed as part of their turnkey service.

4m x 3m Crusoe Garden Room designed as a creative studio, pilates room and occasional guest room

A Crusoe Garden Room: The Extra Space Solution

This 12sqm Crusoe Garden Rooms project in Whitby shows how careful design and on-site construction can make a compact terraced plot work harder. Recessed doors, horizontal cedar cladding and secret nailing, with a high-spec plastered interior ready to use at handover.

The garden room has been divided to create two rooms - the sitting room and a changing room for the hot tub

Garden Sitting Room with Hot Tub Changing Room

This 5.4m x 3.5m Sanctum Garden Studios project combines an insulated sitting room with a private hot tub changing area. A bespoke 500mm canopy, vertical tanalised redwood cladding and plaster-finish interior create a practical, comfortable garden space for year-round use.

Example of the B2 by Green Retreats

B-Range Affordable Garden Room Collection

Green Retreats’ B-Range is five affordable insulated garden room styles available in more than thirty-six sizes. Choose an insulated building, then add electrics, lighting, flooring, and interior finish packs as you need. A self-build B1 Kit option is also available.

Sauna and wellness pod by JML Garden Rooms

Sauna and Wellness Pods by JML Garden Rooms

JML Garden Rooms now offer sauna and wellness pods alongside bespoke garden wellness buildings. This article looks at a 5sqm Edinburgh project, the appeal of hot and cold therapy at home, and the two standard pod sizes they now offer.

This 6m x 3.5m bespoke garden gym by Sanctum Garden Studios adapts their Contemporary Overhang range with a reinforced floor, extended cedar-clad canopy, generous sliding doors and tailored electrics, including an air source heat pump for year-round workouts at home.

Bespoke Garden Gym by Sanctum Garden Studios

This 6m x 3.5m bespoke garden gym by Sanctum Garden Studios adapts their Contemporary Overhang range with a reinforced floor, extended cedar-clad canopy, generous sliding doors and tailored electrics, including an air source heat pump for year-round workouts at home.

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