WHAT WOULD YOU USE A GARDEN ROOM FOR?
With many continuing to work from home, a garden room could provide the extra space you need for an office. But, it could be so much more than that!
1 – Your own space
A completely separate space. Psychologically, you can separate yourself from your day-to-day stressful and busy household. This is a room to escape into, to pick up a book and settle down with a cup of tea, practice yoga, write, create or dream. With no interruptions and the garden surrounding you, it’s your space; so, you can utilise it as a stress-free zone!
2 – A work space
There are now over 4 million people working from home in the UK. Research has shown that it’s important to have a separate space to work in, it encourages better sleep, better health and overall improved efficiency. By making the most of a garden room ensures that you are able to separate your home life from your work life.
3 – For entertaining
Now, working and relaxing are important, but let’s not forget that play is super important too! A garden room can be an amazing place to entertain friends, away from the house. You can roll out the barbecue and in the summer rain, still hold an amazing event. It’s also a great place to spend a relaxed evening.
4 – Being outdoors
An extension is just that, an extension of your home, more bricks, cement and concrete = less garden. A garden room however is an element of your garden; you can enjoy being outside whilst spending time inside a functional and contemporary environment. Just being able to walk down the garden path to access your beautiful garden room is an enjoyable way to reach your building.
5 – Avoidance of Planning
Nobody likes the hassle and stress of obtaining full planning approval, it is costly and timely. Fortunately, most garden rooms fall under the guidelines of permitted development (Unless you require plumbing), meaning that you can build without requiring planning permission and can be built more efficiently than a traditional brick and block extension! A garden room is a straightforward alternative to what can be an otherwise complicated affair.
6 – Aesthetics
The unobtrusive, circular footprint of these garden rooms sit beautifully within the natural environment. The inescapable prevalence of curves, spirals, twists and turns of the trees and vegetation in your garden is a beauty of nature. Natural form is complimentary, and a garden room should of course work within the laws of nature to sit sympathetically within this scene. In simple terms, a round garden building looks nothing short of amazing.
7 – Sustainablity
Timber framed Garden rooms are more sustainable than a traditional brick and block structure. When buying a garden room from a reputable garden building manufacturer you can be assured that they will work with sawmills and timber suppliers who are committed to sustainable ethics and clearly display that their timber is FSC and PEFC certified (FSC and PEFC, the two organisations together accounting for some 98% of the world’s certified forests and chain of custody certificates).