Garden Room Design Guides

The other day we were playing around with the idea of swapping a window in our house for a large picture window that would really frame the view of our garden. This got us thinking that picture windows are not something commonly used in garden room design. Floor to ceiling glazed sections have become ‘the…

We have been talking to a lady who having just spent a month in Western Australia has decided that she wants to create a garden room with veranda at the front, reminiscent of the house she had been living in. She sent us some photos of the house she had been staying in and asked…

We’ve looked at the basics of creating the walls and general form of a garden room with SketchUp, but to start getting a clear idea of what your garden room design might look like you need to add some doors and windows. Today we are going to explain how we model a single outward opening…

In our last tutorial we showed you how to add a cladding texture to your garden room model. At the end of the article you would be in a position to add a horizontal cladding effect, but what if you want to replicate vertical cladding. Well, there is just one more step to achieve this.…

One of the quickest ways to get an idea of what your garden room design is going to look like is to add some cladding to your model. Thankfully this is a quick and easy task with Sketchup. Once you have your basic structure you need to select the the materials palette which is the…

In our work for The Garden Room Guide & Garden Office Guide we use the term ‘flat roof garden room’ a lot. So called flat roof garden rooms dominate the industry as they are the most flexible when it comes to positioning under the Permitted Development rules. The Permitted Development rules say that garden rooms…