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Garden Room and Shed

Want a Garden Room and a Shed?

Why choose between a garden room and a shed when you can have both under one well-designed roof? Garden room designers are adept at creating discreet shed spaces that blend seamlessly into the overall design of the building, often so cleverly that you’ll hardly notice they’re there.

We’ve curated this collection of garden room with shed articles to showcase the wide variety of designs available, offering inspiration for functional and stylish multifunction spaces. The articles are listed with the most recently featured examples first, so use the pagination to explore all the designs.

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Cedar clad garden office

Home Office with Secret Storage

This 5 x 3.5m garden building combines an office and hidden storage room behind Cedar cladding. The office features black bi-fold doors, high-positioned windows, and a fully plastered interior, whilst a composite deck creates an attractive entrance.

5m x 3m garden office with secret shed

Garden Office Shed Combo

This 5 x 3m garden office cleverly conceals a hidden storage room behind its Thermowood cladding. The 1.2-metre-wide storage space spans the building’s depth, featuring practical OSB lining, whilst the office area offers a professionally plastered, decorated interior.

Highly insulated garden room designed to replicate a much loved summerhouse

New Garden Room Replicates Old Summerhouse

Executive Garden Rooms designed & built this New England-style, fully insulated garden room to replace a seasonal summerhouse. Featuring Cedral cement fibre board cladding and Georgian-style windows, the building features a main room and a separate storage area.

Corner garden room with storage shed

Corner Garden Room with Integrated Storage

Garden Spaces designed a triangular garden room in Welwyn Garden City, fitting neatly into a garden corner and aligning with the boundary fence. This 6.9m by 6.1m room includes a main living area and concealed storage, accessed through discreet double doors.

The 5.5m x 3.5m garden office houses several uses under the one roof

Garden Office with Hidden Storage Areas

This custom two-room garden room by Executive Garden Rooms features a spacious family area with gaming and study zones, a home office, and a convenient cloakroom. Enhanced by floor-to-ceiling glazing and roof windows, it offers abundant natural light and a contemporary interior.

Composite cladding is dimensionally stable and does not need repainting to stay looking good

Replace a Garage with a Holiday Let

A garden annexe can generate rental income with proper permissions. Miniature Manors transformed the site of an old garage into a stylish, self-contained holiday let with a double bed, kitchen, shower room, and decked terrace. Required Planning Permission & Building Control.

The black colour palette has created a striking building, sitting in a beautiful landscape.

A Riverside Garden Room That Delights

Swift Unlimited designed a bespoke garden sitting room for a riverside property, blending sleek black cladding, expansive glazing, and seamless indoor-outdoor connectivity, demonstrating their craftsmanship and commitment to exceeding client expectations.

The garden room slots in tight to three boundary fences

Garden Room Spanning the Width of the Garden

This bespoke garden room by Garden Spaces spans the garden width, maximising space with a Building Regulation-compliant design. Featuring a glazed front wall and concealed storage shed, it provides seamless garden views and versatile dual functionality.

Fully insulated workshop

Fully Insulated Garden Workshop

A 5m x 4m garden workshop in Wimbledon combines SIP construction with integrated storage and seamless indoor-outdoor flow. The design features Western Red Cedar and Thermowood cladding, OSB interior finishes, and industrial-style electrics for a practical workspace.

An interior designer advised on the internal finishes

Designed for Multiple Uses Under One Roof

Swift Unlimited designed a versatile 8m x 4.9m garden room, catering to diverse needs such as meetings, yoga, guest accommodation, and storage. Features include a hidden cedar-clad storage door, integrated kitchenette, W.C., decked veranda, and stylish interior design details.

The art studio has been fitted on a sloping site

Art Classes in a Custom Garden Studio

This custom garden studio by Garden Spaces provides a lovely, purpose-built environment for art classes. Designed to handle a sloped garden, the studio includes a two-room layout, ample natural light, and quality finishes, blending functionality with aesthetic appeal.

Garden Fortress

Soundproof Studio with Kitchen & Shower Room

A 6m x 5m garden room combines a professional soundproof studio with kitchen and shower facilities. The design features a unique room-within-room acoustic system, Western Red Cedar cladding and grey render, creating a highly functional multipurpose space.

Garden2Office design

Garden Room with Seamed Metal Roof

Garden2Office offers the Malmö garden room with a seamed metal roof, ideal for contemporary, barn-style spaces. This bespoke design, adapted as a dog grooming parlour, features extensive glazing, a vaulted ceiling, premium Cedar cladding, and partitioned storage with a concealed door.

This large garden room spans the width of the garden

14.5m Garden Room That Spans the Width of the Garden

Swift Unlimited designed a 14.5m garden annexe spanning the garden’s width, featuring two living spaces, a shower room, and storage with a seamless “secret door.” Its flexible design supports evolving uses, with a deck planned to connect to a future pool.

Painted flat roof garden office with shed

New England-Style Garden Office with a Mono-Pitched Roof

Timeless Garden Rooms blends traditional New England charm with modern design in this bespoke garden office. Featuring a mono-pitched roof, the compact building includes a storage shed, a naturally light-filled workspace, and creative sleeper-based landscaping around the building.

2.7m high garden room

2.7m High Garden Room with Integral Storage

This bespoke 2.7m high garden room in Borehamwood, designed by Executive Garden Rooms, includes integral storage and needed Planning Permission due to its height. Features include Cedral weatherboarding, uPVC French doors, comprehensive electrics, and a turnkey service for a seamless installation.

We like the arrangement of glazing

Multi-Use Garden Space

Garden Spaces transformed an old shed into a bespoke L-shaped garden room with year-round functionality. Featuring a 10.9-square-metre main room, discreet storage, premium cedar cladding, and integrated blinds, this versatile design combines comfort, privacy, and practicality for multi-use appeal.

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