Log Cabins

Log Cabin Offices

A log cabin can also be a great place to work, manage your work life balance and reduce your morning commute to a few seconds and arrive with your coffee still warm. Separate your work and home life, and get the best of both worlds! Our log cabins UK and dedicated garden offices have high-security doors and windows that can only be removed from inside, thus your important documents or valuable equipment will be well protected and insurable.

Log Cabin Summerhouses

Our wide selection of modern log cabins and traditional summer houses will have you craving for your own space in the garden. 
Choose between log cabin summerhouses filled with windows and shapes to fit all kinds of gardens. Such as corner, hexagonal, oval, rectangular and square. However, if you’re more contemporary you may fancy a modern log cabin summerhouse in apex or pent roof styles. 

Let your space and personal taste be the guides to your final selection.

Garden Pub

Imagine having your own bar in the garden. This is your own time, to spend the way you want to, so grab a brew, put on the music and make yourself comfortable! We have a huge range of outdoor buildings, and though they all feel tall and spacious, most of them are under 2.5m in height, which means you don’t require planning permission to build your bar where you want. Bye, Bye designated driver! Not only can you choose the music and the guests, but it is also really useful for family and social events. Want to invite the entire extended family for a birthday celebration? Or a noisy New Year’s Eve party? Now you will have the space at last, without having to move a stick of furniture!

Garden Cinema 

Enjoy the match rowdily with your mates, or settle down to savour an epic movie with your widescreen TV and full surround sound. We offer a range of garden log cabins that fit this role. The internally-beaded windows and 4 point locking system on our doors mean you can rest assured your valuable audio-visual gear is safe and sound all year round!

Log Cabins Sheds

Our log cabin sheds are ideal if you are in need of some extra storage on the side. Combine your luxury log cabin with a variety of sidestores that are sure to please all tastes and needs. Store your essentials in a place that’s easy to retrieve them from. Whether it’s your lawn mower, motorbike, bicycles, garden tools or even to shelter your mobility scooter, rest assured your belongings will sit in a safe place right next to your garden building. 

Games Room

Wouldn’t it be nice to provide a space where older children can safely, hang out with siblings or school friends, play some indoor sports or video games (that you control)? Ping Pong balls and pool tables are no match for our 4mm Toughened glass! A games room in your garden will provide hours of entertainment for both children and adults alike. 

Garden Gym 

Your own space to work out in peace. Whether novice or semi-professional, we have the perfect heavy duty log cabin size for you and they all come with a 19mm floor as standard. Air vents disperse condensation and friction stays on the windows provide instant and comfortable ventilation you can control. When it comes to the smell of sweat, you don’t necessarily want “what happens in the garden gym to stay in the garden gym!”

Wooden 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, and come in single or double glazed options. The internally-beaded windows and handle locks with keys mean your valuable equipment and tools are safe and sound.

Insulated Log Cabins

If you intend to use your log cabin all year round, opt-in for an insulated log cabin. Add insulation to your log cabin or choose one of our fully insulated log cabins. 

Our Warmalog insulated log cabins are an innovative concept with 62mm sandwich of timber and polyurethane. Their U-Value is equivalent to 110mm wall thickness. An ideal option for any weather. Keep yourself and loved ones warm and cosy with triple tongue and groove logs and double glazed windows as standard. 

Our insulation options are quick and easy to install into your log cabin and help promote heat retention. Thus saving you on your heating bills. We always supply polyurethane insulation, a far better insulation than Rockwool or polystyrene. Even NASA uses it! 

Beauty Cabins/She Sheds

A beauty cabins is also a popular log cabin use. It is essentially a dedicated space for all things beauty related at the back of your garden. Many of our customers use them as beauty rooms for themselves or as their home business. Many of our cabins are used as beauty salons, hair salons, eyebrow bars and more. 

Corner Cabins

Transform that awkward section of your garden with an affordable solution that doesn’t require planning permission. A corner log cabin will give you the extra space you need to expand your living space without expensive house extensions.  

Maintain Your Log Cabin

To ensure your log cabin has a prolonged life, it’s crucial that you take the correct measures to maintain it properly. 

Our experts recommend choosing the right treatment for your garden cabin and that you treat it as soon as it’s built. At Dunster House, we offer a variety of wall preservatives that are solvent and water based. In addition to selecting the best log cabin treatment, it’s also important that you re-apply treatment when required. This will depend on the log cabin preservative you have chosen.

Furthermore, creating an environment that aids moisture control is an important element in maintaining your garden log cabin. Make sure measures are in place for the roof, floor, foundations and surrounding drainage to help shake off extra moisture and prevent rot, fungal and insect infestations. 

At Dunster House we use pressure treated floor bearers to protect the lowest part of the building. We use a large pressure treatment tank that forces the treatment deep into the timber at high pressure. Due to this effective process, we offer our customers a genuine 10 year guarantee against rot and insect infestation on the bearers.

Don’t forget, your log cabin is made of timber, a natural product that will contrast and expand according to the UK’s unpredictable weather. Once the cabin is erected, there will be a period of “settling” as the wood reacts and adjusts to surrounding climate. Splits and cracks may occur over time but that shouldn’t compromise the quality of your garden building. 

The use of interlocking tongue and groove timber in our log cabins help with the strength and stability of the walls as well as the natural expansion and contrast of the timber.

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

Log Cabin Wall Thickness

Our log cabins are available in a range of wall thicknesses; 28mm, 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 roofs. If you intend to use your cabin 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 polyurethane 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.

Planning Permission For Garden Buildings

You may have found exactly what you’re looking for, a log cabin to your exact taste and measurements. That’s great! However, before placing an order for your wooden garden building, it’s important to familiarise yourself with any planning permissions or building regulations that may apply in your area.

The good news is that most of our log cabins don’t require planning permission. This is due to our unique designs that utilise the maximum width and height available to us. Thus giving you as much space as possible, without the need to opt for tall log cabins. Although we have a wide range of under 2.5m log cabins, some exceptions may still apply. Hence it’s vital that you check whether you’ll need planning permission or not. 

To make it easier for you we created a quick step Planning Permission questionnaire to help you determine whether you’ll need planning permission. 

Head over to our Planning Permission Quiz for more details. 

Please Note: This is an introductory guide for Dunster House garden buildings only and not a definitive source of legal information. 

Log Cabins Installation

Do you have what it takes to build your own garden house? 

Building your own garden cabin can be overwhelming, we get it. Although we design all our wooden garden houses and home offices with self-assembly in mind, we understand that not everybody is confident with DIY. For ease of mind, we offer our own, directly employed, installers to carry out the installations for you. 

We have invested a lot of time, money and effort into training our own installation teams, so that they know our products inside out. This way, if you use us to install your product, you'll get the same focus on quality and value found in every other stage of our buying process.

Head over to our garden building installation T&C guide for more information.

Log Cabins For Sale

If you’re looking for a log cabin to buy, make sure you do your research. This is because log cabin kits come in all shapes and sizes to fit all budgets. You may be looking for a small log cabin if you’re restrained for space. Likewise you may be looking for a large log cabin if you’re aiming for a multipurpose space or have a large garden.  

Whatever your budget, garden space, personal taste and style, if you are looking to buy a cabin we are confident that you will find what you’re looking for in our massive range of log cabins kits. If you’re looking for the best garden outbuilding you’ve come to the best.

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

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