Top 4 Ideas for Elegant Garden Rooms
Imagine having an elegant garden room, a sanctuary distinct from your living quarters. Garden rooms are versatile havens that expand your living space and infuse a touch of style into your garden.
These spaces are typically quick to install and eliminate weeks of planning and construction when looking for additional space, whether for a home office, gym, or relaxation zone.
According to Ideal Home UK, a garden room can add around 1.5 times its value to the property. This undoubtedly makes the average garden room a worthwhile investment.
Vertex Garden Rooms can provide an elegant garden room for year-round use. Offering extensive experience and expertise in bespoke outdoor rooms, Vertex Garden Rooms can help you customise your space with cost-effective, industry-leading quality materials according to your configurations and preferences.
Below, we explore some of our most elegant garden room designs from Vertex Garden Rooms, including garden offices, summerhouses, home gyms and art studios.
Top picks for Elegant Garden Rooms:
Various elegant garden room designs and styles can be tailored to fit any unused space in your garden.
Of course, everyone's need for extra space is unique, so it's essential to explore the various styles available and select a unit that best suits your needs and budget.
Let's explore our top picks for elegant garden rooms:
The Garden Office
This garden office is Vertex's top pick for an elegant garden room, allowing you to work from home without disruptions.
Working from home has become the norm as more companies get on board with flexible working hours. With this change to home working, the need for a home office has grown exponentially in the UK (and the rest of the world).
The BBC released an interesting article detailing how the quality of your workspace can shape your entire remote working experience.
The garden office is becoming ever more popular for those who need extra space to concentrate on the day's work without disturbing the natural living spaces of their modern, busy home.
We love this garden room because it allows you to work from home with fresh air, natural light, and less noise pollution.
The good news is that, even with a small garden, you can easily customise some office space with complete autonomy over the décor of your workspace.
The interior of this elegant garden room has beautiful laminate flooring and white walls, which reflect the natural light pouring in from the double doors.
2. Garden Gym
Our next pick for elegant garden rooms will elevate your garden and leave you fit and healthy. Exercise is vital for our health, but many need help finding time for the gym or the finances to pay for increasing gym fees.
This garden gym has cedar cladding on the outside, which beautifully contrasts the green grass in this garden. It also provides convenient and private space to work out exactly when it suits you.
This space is entirely bespoke, allowing you to create space for any equipment you choose. You can customise your garden gym to create a multi-purpose space for different uses when required. Say goodbye to the hassle of gym fees and waiting for equipment and hello to at-home workouts.
This garden gym also makes our top choice for elegant design because it has a handy side storage cupboard to store all gardening equipment. It's an elegant 2 in 1 solution which allows you to stay fit and organised.
Summerhouse
This summer house is one of our most elegant garden room projects. A summerhouse is the perfect garden retreat to rejuvenate your mind and body while getting inspiration from the natural surroundings of your garden space.
Summer houses are so versatile. Fancy a hobby room to read, write, dine, or enjoy a long drink as the warm evening sun glows over your garden?
This summer house lets light pour into the garden room with the floor-to-ceiling windows, making a stylish addition to the garden. Think of it as a log cabin where you can secretly retreat from the pressures of everyday life or hide from the family when you need a little space to breathe and gather your thoughts!
It's the perfect outdoor space for the entire family.
Art Studio
Our final pick for our elegant garden rooms is the art studio. Having some space is a big priority for every artist, whether you're an amateur or a professional.
With this studio space, you have much more room to grow - you can work with more extensive surface areas, display art as you see fit, and change up your medium when you want in ways that might be hard in a home environment.
This art studio is a blank canvas for you to work on, with beautiful natural lighting that will shine any painting. Working from a studio can lift some restrictions by creating a sense of freedom, giving you peace of mind that your creativity can flow, free from the burdens, hustle, and bustle of everyday family life.
Vertex Garden Rooms allows you to customise the art studio to your preferences, saving thousands of pounds. You can rent it out to other artists or use it as a meeting point to work alongside like-minded artists.
FAQs
Do I need planning permission for a garden room?
Most garden rooms don't require planning permission as they fall within permitted development rules set by local UK councils.
Provided your garden studio is built subject to some limits and conditions, it will have pre-approved planning permission. Some critical factors ensure a garden studio is considered a permitted development:
The garden studio is 2.5m from ground level to the top of the flat roof.
You don't occupy over 50% of your garden area with the studio building.
The footprint of the building is at most 30 square metres.
If your build has a pitched roof, the build must be 2m away from any boundary line and have a maximum eave height of no more than 2.5m from ground level and a maximum ridge height of 4m
You will require planning permission to run a mains water feed and waste. Let's add this.
Can I request double glazing?
Vertex Garden Rooms provides industry-leading double glazing as the standard for all garden studios. Every room is substantially insulated with the most advanced and efficient double glazing available to guarantee comfortable use all year round.
Thanks to the cost-to-impact ratio, you can expect 25mm wide, Argon-filled glazing units, the industry standard for filling double glazing. It's affordable and gives your garden studio energy efficiency and noise reduction.
You'll also get a standard anthracite grey German UPVC window and door frame. You can also upgrade to aluminium or get roof lights as an optional extra.
What is tongue and groove cladding?
The tongue and groove method, or "T & G," refers to joining two or more separate flat objects to create single flat surfaces.
The tongue of one piece fits snugly into the groove of the adjacent piece, joining them together to create a single surface with a very tight seal.
Tongue and groove cladding in garden studios provide secure interlocking for a more robust structure.
It prevents gaps, helps avoid water ingress or draughts and creates a better-insulated garden building. It also allows shrinkage during warm weather, preventing gaps between the boards for a long-lasting, attractive appearance.
What are the exterior finish options for cladding for my garden room?
Depending on your preference and aesthetic needs, there are various cladding options to choose from, including:
Timber Options:
The most popular choices are a Western Red Cedar Tongue and Groove board or a Treated Pine Feather-edge weatherboard.
Vertex Garden Rooms offers a coat of UV stabilising oil for the cedar post-installation. Aftercare will require one coat per annum.
With feather-edge, we recommend a coat or two of Cuprinol Ducks-back post-installation and once every two years after that. With more exotic timbers, you can choose a larch feather-edge board or a green oak feather-edge board, which don't require any maintenance and can be left alone.
Zero Maintenance Finishes:
These can include the "James Hardieplank," a compressed fibre cement board designed to look wood-like. They've increased in popularity and come in different colours you can choose from. You can also choose composite cladding alternatives if you don't want to worry about maintenance.
Another excellent finish available at Vertex Garden Rooms is the zero-maintenance steel sheet option, and you'll get various colours to choose from.
It's perfect for cladding unseen walls or in areas like up against a boundary line where no one can see. Since it's made from steel, it guarantees you the ultimate peace of mind by protecting you and your garden studio from fire.
In Conclusion: Your Journey to Elegant Garden Rooms
In exploring elegant garden rooms, we've uncovered possibilities to transform your outdoor space into a sanctuary of sophistication and functionality. These garden studios, quick to install and versatile in purpose, eliminate the traditional weeks of planning and construction typically associated with expanding your living space.
As noted by Ideal Home UK, their value to your property makes them an undeniable investment. With its wealth of experience and expertise, Vertex Garden Rooms is your partner in creating a year-round haven tailored to your specifications.
From garden offices that revolutionise remote work to garden gyms that elevate your fitness routine and from charming summerhouses to inspiring art studios, there's a garden room for every aspiration. Each design reflects elegance and practicality, offering you a space of your own amidst the tranquillity of your garden.
With FAQs addressing important considerations like planning permission and customizations such as double glazing and cladding options, Vertex Garden Rooms ensures your vision becomes a reality. Your journey to an elegant garden room starts here.