Outdoor Rooms

If you need extra space in your home then why not look to the garden. An outdoor room is the easy way to expand your living area, without the costs, mess, and stress of moving house or building an extension. Building a garden room is a cost-effective alternative to traditional extensions, conservatories, or loft conversions, and also open to a wider range of possibilities.

One of the great things about a garden room is it can be transformed into just about anything you want. Whether it be for work or pleasure, garden rooms are perfect for a wide number of uses. So you can make space for the pub shed, man cave or home gym that you’ve always wished for, or the office space you desperately need. As a detached building away from the house, your garden room can become your new business premises to set up your own beauty salon, dog grooming parlour, or music studio. Alternatively, it can become a garden retreat or reading room for taking time out to relax or a safe space for the children to play under your nearby watchful eye.

A garden room extension is your own private space, away from the main house. A dedicated area where you can focus on work, relaxation, or your hobbies. It is a versatile building that can easily provide you with more living room.

Modern Garden Rooms

We offer a range of both traditional and modern garden rooms, to suit all styles and budgets. They range from log cabins with interlocking log walls, to contemporary panel buildings. In addition, our range of modular garden rooms enable you to customise a design and layout that fits your needs and preferences. You can choose the windows and doors you want, and where to place them.

Whether you need more space for business or leisure purposes, we have a garden room to meet your requirements. Offering a secluded space to escape the hustle and bustle of everyday life, a peaceful work space, a hub for the family to spend time together in a games room or home cinema, or an entertainment venue for socialising with friends. Providing both comfort and functionality, our garden rooms will transform your outdoor living space. You will soon become the envy of all your neighbours!

Multi-Room Garden Rooms

If you really want to make the most of your outdoor space, go for a building with multiple rooms. Doing so means you can separate it into different areas for work, relaxing, entertainment and storage. Our multi-room log cabins help you create different zones according to your needs. Coming in various styles and options, they offer you the ultimate customisation experience. Build a multi-functional space with separate rooms all rolled into one garden building. There’s no need to make space in your garden for two separate buildings, so you can fully maximise the use of your outdoor area.

Garden Room Offices

With a trend towards more remote and hybrid working practices in the UK, a garden office is becoming an essential addition to many homes. A garden studio can provide the ideal place to work, helping to manage your work-life balance and eliminating your morning commute. Separate your work and home life, and get the best of both worlds! A dedicated workspace will help keep you focused, away from any disruptions in the house. It will also allow you to fully switch off and leave the office behind you at the end of the day.

Our log cabins and dedicated garden offices have secure locking doors and windows, so your important documents or valuable items stay safe. Invest in one of our top-of-the-range luxury garden rooms, for a fully insulated office that will enable you to work in comfort and style. Our garden buildings are made from the best quality materials, making them superior to others on the market. They feature thermally efficient insulation in the walls, floor and roof, and come with uPVC double-glazed windows and doors.

Garden Pub

Ever dreamt of having your own pub shed or garden bar? If so, our timber garden rooms make the ideal space to set up a fantastic area for entertaining, throwing parties, or just relaxing with a couple of drinks. A pub shed is ideal for hosting family and social events and also celebrating special occasions. With a room in the garden, you have space to invite everyone over without having to rearrange the furniture in the house.

Grab yourself a drink, put on the music and make yourself comfortable! Whether you fancy a gin joint, traditional pub, sports bar, or cocktail palace, the choice of music, drinks, and guest list is up to you. Complete your bar area with decorations to match the theme, and some seating. Maybe add a pool table or darts board for some fun and games too.

Say goodbye to designated drivers and costly taxi fares as you can drink as much as you like without worrying about how you’re getting home. (But, do always remember to please drink responsibly). You get to set the opening hours too, so you can party the night away.

Garden Room Cinema

Set up your garden room with a screen and projector or a big TV, and you can create your own home cinema. Snuggle down with popcorn and snacks while viewing the latest blockbusters, or gather together to watch sports matches or big events. You can sit back and enjoy, knowing that all audio-visual equipment will be well protected in one of our secure locking rooms.

Garden Games Room

Wouldn’t it be nice to have space where older children can safely hang out with siblings or school friends? Somewhere they can play some indoor sports or video games (that you control). A games room in your garden will provide hours of entertainment for both children and adults alike. Whether a child or just a big kid at heart, who wouldn’t love their own games room?

Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with retro arcade machines, or set up with the latest gaming technology and consoles. Keep it classic with snooker, pool, ping pong or table football, or host a good old-fashioned board game night. There’s no end to the fun that can be had in your own garden games room. A place for children to play safely with their friends, that adults can enjoy as well.

Garden Gym

Create your own space to work out in the privacy of a garden room. With your own home gym, you can exercise at your convenience, without waiting around for your favourite equipment to become free. There’s no feeling self-conscious about your body or ability, because you can exercise at your own pace away from any onlookers. Just crank up your favourite workout music and exercise in peace without a crowd of sweaty bodies around you.

Whether you’re a novice or semi-professional, we have the perfect heavy-duty garden room size for you. What’s more, they all come with a sturdy 19mm floor as standard. Air vents disperse condensation, and friction stays on the windows provide instant and comfortable ventilation you can control.

Man Caves and She Sheds

Create the private retreat you have always wished for with a room in the garden, where you have your own space to relax or enjoy your favourite pastimes. Spend more time doing the things you love in your very own man cave or she shed. Furnish with comfy seating, a fully stocked bar, and a games table, and equip with TV screen and sound system. Add the finishing touches by decorating your hideaway with posters and memorabilia from your favourite sports teams, movies, or television shows. Or set up the room with sewing machines and art supplies to create your sewing room or craft studio.

Garden Rooms with Sheds

Our garden room sheds are perfect if you’re in need of some extra storage space on the side. Combining a log cabin garden room with a sidestore shed, you can have a separate storage area to accommodate your needs without infringing on your room’s interior space. Store your lawnmower, bike, gardening tools, or outdoor furniture in a safe and easy to reach place right next to your garden room.

Garden Room Workshop

If your garden cabin contains your workshop, you want it to be as tough and hard-working as you are. Our windows and doors are made of 4mm toughened glass. Meanwhile, the internally beaded windows and key locking handles mean your valuable equipment and tools are safe and sound. With a range of garden rooms available, you can find the right sized outdoor building to accommodate your needs. Make space for completing DIY projects and manual tasks, or for working on your bike or vehicle.

Insulated Garden Rooms

If you intend to use your garden room all year round, opt-in for an insulated log cabin. Add roof and floor insulation to your cabin, or choose one of our fully insulated log cabins. Insulation enables you to make the most of your garden room, even in the colder months.

Our Warmalog insulated garden cabins are an innovative concept with 62mm sandwich of timber and polyisocyanurate insulation. However, their U-Value is equivalent to 110mm wall thickness, making it an ideal option for any weather. Keep yourself and loved ones warm and cosy with triple tongue and groove logs and double glazed windows and doors as standard. A thermally efficient garden room that is highly insulated will help to maintain the temperature inside, for a useable and comfortable space all year round.

Our insulation options are quick and easy to install into your log cabin. Insulation helps promote heat retention, which in turn, saves you money on your heating bills. We supply Polyisocyanurate insulation as it is a far better insulator than Rockwool or polystyrene alternatives.

Corner Garden Room

Transform that awkward section of your garden with an affordable solution that doesn’t require planning permission. A corner garden room will give you the extra space you need to expand your living space without expensive house extensions. With a corner garden building you can really maximise your outdoor space. Our corner garden rooms are designed to fit into what could otherwise be an unusable or awkward corner of your garden. A summerhouse nestled into the corner of your garden will be a beautiful and practical addition.

DIY Garden Room Kits

Our DIY garden rooms are designed and supplied as kits for the do-it-yourself market. To help build your garden room quicker, our log cabin windows come pre-assembled. Our insulated garden offices and Addrooms come with pre-fabricated panels for quicker, easier installation. A flat-pack garden room is a cost-effective off-the-shelf option. This makes it one of the best ways to add extra space to your home.

With our garden building kits, all necessary fixings needed for the assembly of the product are supplied at no extra cost. We supply you with everything you need, so you can get building straight away, and start enjoying your garden room in no time.

Lean To Garden Room

Our unique Addroom lean to garden rooms are a cost-effective way to extend your home. These modular extensions are much quicker and easier to install than building a traditional brick extension or conservatory. Fully insulated for comfortable use all year round and with secure locking uPVC double-glazed windows and doors. Garden rooms add extra living space, ideal for use as a home office, lounge area or playroom.

Maintain Your Garden Room

Ensure your garden room lasts the ages by taking the correct measures to maintain it properly.

If the wooden garden room is supplied untreated, then make sure you apply a preservative as soon as it’s built. You will then need to reapply treatment as and when needed. Moisture control is also an important element in maintaining your garden room, to prevent damp inside. Make sure the garden building is well ventilated, and that there is also sufficient drainage.

All Dunster House garden rooms come with pressure treated floor bearers included, to protect the lowest part of the building. Pressure treating is an extensive process that forces treatment deep into the timber while moisture is removed. As a result, it provides high levels of protection. This is why we can offer a genuine 10-year guarantee against rot and insect infestation on pressure treated wood.

Don’t forget, your garden cabin room is made of timber, a natural product that will contract and expand according to the UK’s unpredictable weather. Once the log cabin is erected, there will be a period of “settling” as the wood reacts and adjusts to the surrounding climate. Splits and cracks may occur over time, but that shouldn’t compromise the quality of your garden building. We use interlocking tongue and groove timber in our log cabin garden rooms. This helps with the strength and stability of the walls, as well as the natural expansion and contraction of the timber.

For more information, take a look at our how to maintain your log cabin guide.

Garden Room Wall Thickness

Our log rooms are available in a range of wall thicknesses. This includes: 28mm, 34mm, 45mm, and 62mm Insulated (which is equivalent to 110mm U-Value).

U-Values provide a measure of heat loss found within building materials used for walls, floors and the roof. If you intend to use your garden room all year round, rather than seasonally, you should choose as thick a wall as possible, to maximise the insulation.

To allow you to compare options, we quote the U-Values of the walls below.

Our 28mm walls are almost 50% bigger than a 19mm wall and are ideal for larger buildings for seasonal use. (U-Value 2.59 w/m2 K).

Our 45mm walls contain over 60% more wood than a 28mm wall and are ideal for use all-year-round. (U-Value 1.93 w/m2 k).

Our 62mm walls are a triple tongue and groove sandwich of timber and polyisocyanurate (PIR) insulation. This achieves a U-Value equivalent to 110mm walls. (U-Value 0.59w/m2 K).

Head over to our U-Values guide for more information.

Garden Rooms Planning Permission

A Dunster House garden room typically won’t require any planning permission, due to our carefully thought out designs. We have a huge range of outdoor buildings. Although they all feel tall and spacious, most of them are under 2.5m in height. This means you are free to place the building wherever you want in your garden. Thus allowing you to fully maximise the outdoor space you have. Some exceptions may still apply, so check with your local authority if in any doubt. Take a look at the official government website for more information.

Garden Rooms for Sale

If you’re looking to buy garden rooms, be sure to do your research, as not all buildings are equal. They come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, in different materials and specifications. Whether you’re looking for contemporary garden rooms, or after something with a more traditional look, there are plenty of options on the market. Don’t just search for the cheapest garden rooms, dig deeper into what you are really getting for your money.

If you’re looking for the best then you’ve come to the right place. Our garden rooms are great value as they are made from high quality materials. Amongst our various ranges some of the things we offer include spruce timber, toughened glass, double glazing, thermally efficient insulation, and pressure treatment.

Whatever your budget, space and style, we are confident you will find what you’re looking for on our website. We have a wide range of garden room designs, ranging from small garden rooms for those restricted on space, to large buildings and multipurpose spaces. Our extensive product range includes log cabins with interlocking walls, modern garden rooms, panel buildings, and fully insulated garden rooms.

As the UK’s No.1 Log Cabin Company, our garden outbuildings are without doubt, the best quality and value for money you will find.

Don’t just take our word for it though! Head over to our customer reviews and case studies for hundreds of glowing reviews from satisfied customers.