27 Jul 2016

Transform your outdoor space with an outbuilding

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If you’re one of the many self-builders who wish they had planned for just a bit more space, or are currently finalising your plans, sanctuary could be much closer to your new home than you realise. Find and create it at the bottom of your garden. Here, Garden Hideouts offers inspiration for versatile outdoor living rooms.

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Outdoor living rooms can help maximise your personal space, add value to your build and can take advantage of an often neglected and undervalued part of your real estate. With ultra-sleek pods, contemporary chic and natural cedar charm can be added to your garden, while larger home-to-garden extensions, such as Garden Hideouts’ Arca garden room and striking shepherd huts, offer the period and nostalgic appeal of a traditional exterior, but with the capacity for a more modern living environment. For example, luxury en-suites can be included within an outdoor living room offering a truly functional, modern living environment.

Outdoor living rooms are commonly used for all sorts of uses such as a hobby room, play den, ‘man cave’, entertainment hub, teenage hangout and even a sauna or treatment room, but Garden Hideouts has seen a particular trend for this extra space used as an extra bedroom or home office. Taking a business out of the family home and projecting a much more professional image within an outdoor living room is proving popular – and all at a fraction of the cost of moving completely or extending a home. Minimising a business’ downtime, Garden Hideouts offers its garden huts and pods prefitted and furnished by an interior designer, saving time and creating a fit for purpose scheme. Ready to use, Garden Hideouts’ method is useful for builders who simply run out of time or do not have the interior design know-how.

Externally, garden outbuildings must host a very robust method of construction to withstand the elements, such as Garden Hideouts’ robust method of construction which is common to the Canadian house-building industry, which together with superior Rockwool insulation means toasty, warm winters, cool summers, total peace and quiet and a sound, lasting investment.

Frames must be produced from a high-grade structural plywood, such as Garden Hideouts’ frames which are created from wisa special spruce grown in sustainable Finland forests and precision cut on CNC equipment for less wastage. Glulam finishes plus tusk, tenon and wedge joints also ensure the most rigid and secure structure possible.

North American western red cedar wood cladding has natural oils and resins, so it doesn’t have to be treated. Extremely hard-wearing, the material also has anti-fungal properties and is of far higher quality than the tanalised spruce and pine, typically used in Britain.

Shepherd huts can also be finished this way for a more contemporary look and feel, but otherwise exteriors can be clad in traditional ‘wriggly tin’, coated in plastisol – a very thick rubbery material which is corrosion and rust-proof and able to withstand extreme weather conditions.

With a host of optional extras, these unique ‘rooms with a view’ require no extra planning permission, in most cases, and no further messy disruption or costly building works.

Site surveys will be required for the addition of an outdoor living room. This survey will take into consideration ground conditions plus drainage and tree roots, the best place available in your garden, footing and foundation requirements, how much space the outdoor living room will take up – plus an idea of what it will look like in situ – and the permanence of the structure.

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