Many homeowners with garden space to spare have opted for garden rooms rather than traditional house extensions. Garden rooms are self-contained units that are delivered directly to site, requiring far less preparation and demolition than adding a room to your home.
Glass garden room owners have put their spaces to a variety of uses. Garden rooms can be used as additional accommodation for visiting family, extra short-term rental income, a gym, writing studio, home office or as a retreat from your regular routine.
Quality manufacturers of wooden garden rooms have made product selection simple, allowing customers to choose sizes, style and insulation requirements online.
Read on to learn more about these intelligent home additions to see if one might work for you.
The Benefits In Detail
1. Having More Space To Yourself
Modern garden rooms offer homeowners more than just design flexibility, they give them more living and working space. Remote work is on the rise, thanks to improved internet connectivity and wider adoption among employers. Sitting in your customized garden room office space could provide you with regularity of a dedicated workspace while staying close to home.
Apart from work pursuits, garden rooms are also ideal spaces for hobbies, leisure activities and extra accommodation. Designers and manufacturers can put the space together however you like. Typically, the smallest available garden rooms are 2m by 2m in size and move all the way up to 8m by 7m. This gives customers a real freedom in layout. Making a garden room perfect for a home gym, art studio, writing and reading room, or even a music studio if well sound proofed.
2. Increasing Your Property Value
Professionally manufactured and installed garden rooms add value to your property. Additional space is sought after, especially if the garden room fits well into the style of the garden and existing home.
Garden rooms fall under Class E and are termed outbuildings. This means that planning permission is only required from the local council if the structure takes up more than 50% of the garden space, is used for living or accommodation purposes and is more 2.5m high, if within 2m from a boundary. Double check your local legislation before making a purchase or setting up an installation date.
3. Spending More Time In Your Garden And Outdoors
Being outdoors or in your garden is relaxing, calming and restorative. Having a tranquil refuge tucked somewhere among the trees and shrubs of your garden makes the outdoors even more appealing.
Owners can bring even more of nature into their new spaces by incorporating plants within their garden rooms, as well as allowing natural light in and choosing soothing interior colours and furnishings.
4. Decluttering Your Home
Small garden rooms can serve as highly functional spaces as well, fostering better organisation and oversight in your home. Homeowners could choose to a create well-organized storage space in their garden rooms or keep gardening supplies together. Garden rooms are also practical laundry spaces, workshops or craft-areas. They can even be used as play areas for your children and their friends.
5. More Cost-Effective Than Traditional Home Extensions
Garden rooms are prefabricated structures that are put together in a factory, by skilled labour. This means that the same steps and standards have been followed thousands of times, resulting in higher quality and lower costs.
Home extensions on the other hand are tailored to the specifics of your site and materials are bought in small quantities for your order. The costs of planning, project management, foundation, demolition, material, labour and interior finishes are likely to exceed that of a prefabricated composite garden room per square meter.
Garden rooms also require no changes to your existing home. Which means no plastic sheeting for dust, no wall demolition, no chasing of new water and electrical lines and no disruption to your daily life.
6. Improved Energy Efficiency
Garden room manufacturers usually allow customers to choose insulation options at an up-charge. This is especially important for owners looking to stay in the space themselves or offer it as accommodation to others. Proper insulation will help to keep the structure cool in summer and warm in winter, reducing the need and cost of air conditioning and heating systems.
7. Customisation
Garden rooms have evolved more than many homeowners might know. Traditional styles are still available and continue to be popular, but manufacturers have also introduced more modern versions. These feature squarer edges, cleaner lines and the occasional black trim found in architectural magazines.
- Apart from the style of the insulated garden room, owners can also select a preferred footprint, interior layout, roof type, flooring, windows, gutters and more. This allows owners to create the perfect space, customised and unique to them and their garden.
8. Privacy And Quiet
A well-appointed space outside of your main home can be an escape for you, your family or your guests. Giving you a break and retreat from visiting family or your own household routine.
In Summary
Garden rooms are easily customisable spaces suited to those looking for more privacy, quiet and connection to their gardens. Manufacturers have made the process of ordering online as user-friendly as possible, allowing for bespoke finishes and easy cost-overview.
These energy-efficient structures add to more than just your property value, they improve your quality of life by giving your extra space for the things you’ve always wanted to do.