Past builds

Ten rooms we’ve built, and what they’re used for

A potter, a guitarist, an accountant and a household of teenagers. Each is here with its size, its cladding and the year it went up.

A small white-painted garden office seen past the leaves of a plant: shelves and a desk with a laptop on it, a white chair, drawers under a window, and a glazed sliding door reflecting the decking outside.

The garden office, Christleton

Office · 3.0 × 2.4 m · Larch · 2025

Our smallest room. The desk stands in the corner between the window and the door, and the sedum roof is for whoever looks down on it from the bedroom.

A garden room clad in dark vertical boards, with a roof that slopes one way and has a rooflight in it, a tall narrow window, and a glazed door with a timber step, on gravel in front of trees.

The rowing room, West Kirby

Gym · 5.0 × 3.0 m · Composite · 2024

Composite boards and stainless fixings, in a garden that takes the wind straight off the sea. The roof slopes one way to shed it, which made the room tall enough to need planning permission. We applied, and the rower got a rooflight.

The two-desk office, Handbridge

Office · 4.0 × 3.0 m · Larch · 2024

Every panel went in through the front door of a terraced house and out of the back. It’s in a conservation area, so the council saw the drawings first.

A timber-clad garden room with a pitched roof, a dark-framed door and a window, standing on gravel among trees.

The guest room, Ruthin

Spare room · 5.0 × 3.6 m · Larch · 2024

Somewhere for family to stay, with a toilet and basin. People sleep in it, so it needed planning permission and building regulations approval. We applied for both.

A cedar-clad garden studio with a pitched roof and a gable that is nearly all glass, on a deck raised off the ground, with a tall table and stools outside.

The hillside studio, Llangollen

Studio · 5.4 × 3.6 m · Cedar · 2023

The garden drops half a metre, so the room and its deck stand on ground screws and nothing was dug out. It’s far enough from every boundary to have a pitched roof, and the glazed gable looks up the valley.

The accountant’s office, Heswall

Office · 3.6 × 2.6 m · Cedar · 2023

Two screens, a wall of files and a view down the garden to the Dee. He says the files are the tidiest they have ever been.

Inside a potter’s studio: shelves of pots on a white ribbed wall, an armchair with an apron on it, a basket, a work table and the edge of a potter’s wheel.

The potter’s studio, Hoole

Studio · 4.6 × 3.0 m · Larch · 2022

A wheel, a kiln on its own circuit and a sink with a clay trap, at the end of a terrace garden you can only reach through the house. The walls are lined with painted steel in place of plaster, so the clay washes off.

A barbell with a curved bar and two dumbbells on a rubber mat on a dark wooden floor, with light from a window falling on the wall behind.

The lifting room, Wrexham

Gym · 4.4 × 3.4 m · Composite · 2022

A stiffened floor for a rack and 200 kg of plates, and acoustic insulation so next door doesn’t hear the bar go down.

A sofa with striped cushions and a blanket in the corner of a garden room, between two dark-framed glazed doors that open onto decking.

The teenagers’ den, Hawarden

Spare room · 4.0 × 3.0 m · Larch · 2021

A sofa, a screen and a door that shuts. Their parents report that the house has been quieter ever since.

Inside a music room with a white-painted floor and a wall of dark-framed glazed doors onto a garden. A guitar stands by a curtain, with a desk to either side.

The music room, Oxton

Studio · 5.0 × 3.6 m · Cedar · 2020

For a guitarist with neighbours on three sides. Acoustic insulation in the walls, floor and roof, and nobody has knocked yet.

Yours

Size, cladding and year to be decided

It starts as a dashed line. Price your room and it becomes a drawing with a number under it.

Two of these are still drawings. That is how every room starts, and we haven’t been back to those two with a camera. Several of the owners are happy to show theirs to someone thinking of buying one, so if you’d like to stand in a finished room, ask at your design visit.

Next step

Price one like these

Pick the size and cladding of the build you liked and see what it would cost today. Or book a design visit and we’ll bring the drawings.

Price your room Book a design visit

The Nook · 3.0 × 2.4 m: from £14,600
The Study · 4.0 × 3.0 m: from £21,700
The Studio · 5.4 × 3.6 m: from £32,700
All prices include: VAT, foundations, electrics and installation