Garden studio Room do you use them

[kerry19834]

Further to my question about converting the garage. The other option would be to put a stand alone studio type Pod in the garden. With heating ect to be used as a reading snug or office. A place to house my 500 books a small sofa and desk. My only worry would be. How often would I use it especially in the winter. When I would need to trek across the garden possibly 3m walk to get to it.

I need more space but the cost of moving would be more.

What do people think about having a separate room to the house. If you were buying a property would this put you off?

Yes we have one used almost daily but we got it specifically to be DH’s office. Basically all the gardens I can see have one since Covid. It’s a great place to keep all his random stuff too so it doesn’t need to be on show in the house - sports memorabilia etc 😁 we didn’t go for air con but only a problem a couple of months a year. He has portable air con and it has heating that can be turned on ahead of his arrival down in the office. It’s not super sound proof so eg if we’re playing in the garden we can hear the drone of his calls. Other than that it’s been maybe 4 years and very pleased so far :)

Also as a buyer I think it depends how big your garden is - wouldn’t want to take up too much percentage of the garden, and wouldn’t want a pointlessly tiny garden room.

If I wanted a home office then I think a garden studio as it helps keep home and work separate and it would be used for hours at a time.

If just as an extra room then I would do a garage conversion.

I use mine most days of the week and it’s a 10 meter commute up the garden! Have a pair of flip flops for the trek and even in the worst of the British winter it’s a 5 second walk so you’re not going to get cold. I’m going to be spending most of today in it playing computer games and eating chocolate. It’s lovely and toasty within a few minutes thanks to a Dyson fan heater. Best thing I ever built. Especially love sleeping out there on the futon when there’s a rain storm.

We have a garden room, but it’s the office so it is used to work from from once or twice a week.

Ours is my DHs office and it is used daily.

A whole 3m away?

Yep - we got one. It’s fully heated, electrics, plastered and looks just like a proper room. But it’s in the garden. We got lots of windows and bifold door to ours and it’s so light and spacious but also cosy and so easy to heat in winter. I use it daily as my office

We have a very long garden with a garden room at the end. In the garden room there is a big sofa and a massive flat screen TV plus all our games. DH and DS often use it for watching football, but we often have film nights, sleepovers, sometimes games nights. The room is insulated and heated, but definitely used more in the summer than winter. We love it.

I ran a £28 million 4 year project from mine, I had put it in 20 years ago as I worked from home, it was about 3m from my back door. It was a £10k one even back then, so insulated, with proper foundations, electrical points and double glazed.

I used it sporadically to work from for the first few years, it was also used to house a treadmill for my OH to use in the evenings/weekends. But for the 5 years before I took early retirement I was in there during office hours and lots of evenings and weekends all year round.

In the spring I could use it to provide power through a window and an extension lead to the back of my small wooden greenhouse so I could start seeds on a heat mat.

If I still lived there I'd use it as a potttery studio as I no longer work.

My main issue was the heating, I'd have to have a heater in there from november through til april. But apart from that it was perfect for an office.

We have a log cabin type. Think it was around 3k including having the electrics put in. We use it more in winter than we do summer. In summer we sit outside but in winter we use our cabin to entertain, watch TV if the other has something else on in the living room, or just to relax in and listen music . An oil heater on a timer keeps it from getting damp over the cooler months (and cheap to run). Then a fake log burner keeps it cosy when we use it in winter