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Garden Rooms Top Uses

By Life Changing Spaces

WHY GARDEN ROOMS

A Garden room is beautiful way to create more space outside and add value to your home.
Garden rooms are classed as outbuildings, so you will not need to seek planning permission to build the space in many cases. Some larger external development will require planning, however. It is best practice to ask your builder about your permitted development rights.
There are multiple uses for an additional Garden room, such as an office, more and more people since lockdown are working from home and saving money on office rent and commutes.
The room can be built with structural steel, wooden cladding, or a full wood structure.
A garden room gives you all the features of a fully designed extension but can be built in a lot quicker and can include Bi fold doors and glazed windows, fully insulated walls, plastered walls and ceilings. They can also include any type of flooring porcelain, natural wood or even a concrete floor.
It is very important to use a company that specialises in building garden buildings, as they have experience and skills to produce what you want to very high standard and will have other projects they can show you.

Garden Rooms have a nearly endless amount of uses

OFFICES

When you work from home and want a quiet bright building to work from an office room is ideal, your builder can draw or sketch out a design that you want, how much natural light want, as well as amenities such as plumbing, heating and electrics.

Working in an external garden room affords you a huge number of benefits. People often realise that this external work area gives them a quite place to concentrate be productive without the distractions of working in a bedroom, kitchen or living room. Your garden room could include a meeting or lounge area for clients and be bespoke built to have enough workspace for just yourself or even a small team. With heating and insulation and improved energy efficiency from double glazed windows or patio doors your garden room will be quiet and warm all year round. Garden rooms built out of wood are extremely warm and save on energy bills as long choose the correct thickness of wooden cladding with your builder.

PLAYROOMS

If you have a larger family and want a play area for your children, this is safe area where kids can play watch Television and have fun, especially in winter months. Its provides warm space was for your family.

FAMILY ROOM / ENTERTAINMENT AREA

Everyone wants more space these days and family room with large lounge area, even converted into Cinema entertainment room is great way to utilise space outside.

KITCHEN AND BAR AREA

Having functional dinning and kitchen bar area is great way you can create eating and dinning space for friends and families. You can have fully functional area to cook relax and eat, even host parties.

With the cost living more prevalent people are enjoying spending time with friends in bespoke bar areas in their garden. This type of outdoor space has become very popular since lockdown, with homeowners getting functional spaces built in their garden, so they can relax and enjoy summer and winter months together.

GYM AND SAUNA HOT TUB AREA

A multipurpose home gym, with outside space for a hot tub or jacuzzi.

This blends the inside space with the outdoors, and can include things like sauna and gym, as well as fully covered roof area for a hot tub and outdoor furniture landscaped with decking or limestone even artificial grass. Garden rooms also work perfectly for yoga studios in which you can exercise with friendly and family or even host your own classes!

WHAT CAN BE PUT IN THE INTERIOR OF GARDEN ROOM FIXTURES AND FITTINGS

A garden room will offer you a space with near endless possibilities. Consider a fully working kitchen and island, fridge, dining area, man cave or a snug. Lighting and sockets, entertainment aresa to include Television and projector even, seating areas comfy lounge areas, fully functional bar and dinning space. Any type flooring can be installed as part of the space, laminate hard wood flooring is very popular. Storage areas and shelving, high vaulted ceilings with skylights, or Velux glass frames sky pods to make space bright and bring in natural light.

HOW LONG DOES GARDEN ROOM TAKE TO BUILD

Once you have agreed quote with your garden room specialist and full site survey has been done.
The first thing they will do is groundworks, this will include making and area level to support garden room structure and build base. The base can take between 1 and 2 days dependant on size of the building.
Then the frame of building will be built, this can take between 1 and 7 days subject to square footage. Once this done next thing to do is to secure and make roofing system watertight. Following glazed elements will be added such as windows or bi-fold doors.

The structure has been watertight before they can start to work on the interior fixtures and fittings. This can take between 3- and 10-days butt can vary because some gardens rooms will have kitchens or require full plastering and painting.